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Our daughter is rightfully euphoric to have completed her senior essay and turned it in last night. This 42 page paper on Tocqueville’s Democracy in America…
Today we dropped our son Andrew off at Swarthmore College to start as a freshman. His roommate is an Econ/Finance major from Mississippi. Swarthmore has a…
I was very inspired by this news story about a homeless teen who is graduating High School today and is headed to Harvard in the fall.
My husband and I were pleased to be included in the Spring Cotillion at St. John’s College in Annapolis last Saturday night. Our daughter was responsible for…
This is the 30th annual croquet match between St. John’s College and the Naval Academy in Annapolis. In all that time, the Navy has only won five times.
We have come to visit our oldest daughter, who is a junior at St. John’s College in Annapolis. We’ve enjoyed staying in her house and meeting her friends.
I took Andrew to Swarthmore “admitted student days” today and he stays through tomorrow. People here are nice and that the campus is the most beautiful I…
One of the schools my son is seriously considering is Dartmouth, so we visited it in New Hampshire today, in sweltering 91 degree April heat.
For those of you following the story of my son’s college application process, we have an update.
Our oldest daughter left yesterday to go back to college after a three week vacation with us, which was the longest time she’s been home since freshman year.
This collage is made from snippets from college “view books” before I recycled them. We saved only the nine for the schools to which he has applied.
– I am celebrating today that my son’s college applications are all submitted! This process was grueling not only for him, but especially for homeschooling parents like myself who are responsible for the school reports, transcript, and the detailed course descriptions that college counselors and school administrators are paid to provide. Today he applied to … Read more
Today we visited Worcester Polytechnic Institute, or WPI as most people refer to it, in Worcester, Massachusetts. We left with a positive impression.
Today I drove to Rhode Island and back to visit Brown Engineering School with my son who is a senior in High School and in the process of applying to college.
I read the above book three years ago when my oldest daughter was applying to schools, and it was out of date then, published in 2000. Since that time, these authors have put out a whole slew of titles that you can see on the shelf in any teen section of the library. Written by … Read more
Today we visited Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (click here). This is my son’s dream engineering school, but it is also tiny, elite and very difficult to get into. This is a school especially designed to be a creative, innovative, hands-on engineering school. It is young, built in 1997 to respond to a dearth … Read more
I am in Annapolis, celebrating the end of my oldest daughter’s sophomore year at St. John’s College. She is happy, challenged, thriving, and possibly a bit over-scheduled. Every minute doesn’t seem to have enough seconds for her; her days have no excess hours. She was the lead in and co-directed the school play, Eumenides, … Read more