PollyannaMom
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Newbie here with a DS who is also class of 2019. Just learning all about the college stuff. Glad to be here
Newbie here with a DS who is also class of 2019. Just learning all about the college stuff. Glad to be here
Congrats to your DD! That's awesome!Hi all! You may recall I mentioned that my DD applied for 5 very selective summer programs. So...I’ve got some fantastic news. Perhaps you felt a rumble and lots of noise coming from the Dallas Texas direction. That was ME jumping up and down and screaming with excitement because my daughter was selected for the UT Southwestern Medical School STARS Summer Research program. The selected high school Juniors are matched with a research professor, and spend 40 hours per week for 8 weeks working in that professor’s lab on the research the professor is doing. They get paid a stipend of $2800. The STARS kids also have group activities. Plus the opportunity to be fully involved in graduate level research as a high school junior. Also, it is only 4 miles from my job, so that is tremendously helpful with us only having one car. She is meeting with her matches professor next week in his lab to get acquainted with the research. She thinks she wants to do research in some area of biomedical sciences/engineering, so this will help her know if she’s really cut out for it. I am so excited for her!!!!!
Hi all! You may recall I mentioned that my DD applied for 5 very selective summer programs. So...I’ve got some fantastic news. Perhaps you felt a rumble and lots of noise coming from the Dallas Texas direction. That was ME jumping up and down and screaming with excitement because my daughter was selected for the UT Southwestern Medical School STARS Summer Research program. The selected high school Juniors are matched with a research professor, and spend 40 hours per week for 8 weeks working in that professor’s lab on the research the professor is doing. They get paid a stipend of $2800. The STARS kids also have group activities. Plus the opportunity to be fully involved in graduate level research as a high school junior. Also, it is only 4 miles from my job, so that is tremendously helpful with us only having one car. She is meeting with her matches professor next week in his lab to get acquainted with the research. She thinks she wants to do research in some area of biomedical sciences/engineering, so this will help her know if she’s really cut out for it. I am so excited for her!!!!!
That's funny. My DD goes to Dunkin a lot too. But she goes for the donuts!Dd came in second in her first 400 m of track season - dd15 beat her by a millisecond. They won their 4 x 4, I’m not sure about her 200. Picked up her formal gown from the tailor today, I thought it looked fine before, but she needed to get her dance solo dress altered again anyway. It does look better. Apparently all of her friends are getting spray tans, this is nuts. She toured Villanova with a bunch of friends, it’s now her #1 so far. She’s been driving a lot since getting her license a month ago, I’m been drinking dunkin a lot since she keeps going there.
Mine never get donuts, dd17 gets an iced tea, dd15 iced coffee and hash browns (celiac), ds15 hot chocolate. We have 3 in our 3 mile town the closest one is 1/2 mile away. Starbucks is closer, but too much money.That's funny. My DD goes to Dunkin a lot too. But she goes for the donuts!
Courage! I hope they have a great time.Pretty quiet around here as well - 3rd Q grades came out today and they were really good, but Q1 grades were good as well and slipped some in the 2nd Q - semester grades are the only ones that count, so hopefully, he'll keep the work up and get a small bump in his overall GPA before applications need to start going out.
It's nearly 100% certain at this point that he's not going out for soccer for his senior year. I still think he's going to regret it at some point, but it's his decision and we have to accept that.
Looks like we're going to add a couple east coast schools to the tour list - we're working with a friend who consults with students on college admissions for a living and she gave us a couple recommendations for engineering schools, so we might be looking at a couple of them, like Bucknell, Lehigh and (not east coast) Virginia Tech. We have relatives in the DC area, so we are looking to visit them at their lake house while we're in VA, so we'll make a bigger trip out of it.
Also, one nice update from a social standpoint (considering my son is Mr. Anti-social ) - he's having a party at our house tomorrow. No real idea of who and how many - sounds like maybe upwards of 15 teens in our basement, which should be interesting.
Thanks so much for sharing the photo. What a great looking group. Her dress is gorgeous. Great job adding the wider straps. I hope they have a great time tonight!
Well, tonight is prom here, it's early in the year, but this is when it's scheduled. We ended up getting DD's dream dress, and I altered it to add wider straps. Prom is at a club down in Larkspur, which is about 35 - 40 minutes from us, which I kind of hate, but DD isn't driving, and the kids she is going with aren't partiers.
That dress looks perfect on her!
I am awfully proud of myself today. I posted above that DD's dress is too long from collar to bust, but due to the beading neither Grandma nor I wanted to mess with it. DD was pretty upset about the fit, I told her it would be fine. Last night was the Speech banquet and while talking to another mom about the dress, I got a little courage and went to sleep thinking about it. We got it out today and opened up the seams between the collar and bodice, cut off as much material as we could without affecting beads and stuck the bodice, beading and all, as far into the collar as possible. Then stitched it shut, just working around the beading. I didn't want to remove any beading for fear it would all come off in one fell swoop! We raised it about an inch but the difference it makes is incredible, it does look so much better on her and isn't gapping or drooping. She almost cried in happiness. Now everything is set, as long as the weather cooperates. (It's freezing rain right now, but we have two weeks to warm up and it's looking promising in the 10 day!)
That's awesome! I was really glad that the shoes that DD found made her tall enough that the dress just barely dragged on the ground. Because the organza had a wide border at the bottom, I wouldn't have been able to hem it at the bottom, and would have had to take it apart at the waist and bring it up there. The idea just made me cringe. She had a great time at prom, and at after-prom, didn't win any raffles, but looks forward to being able to put in tickets for the Sr. raffles next year!
The most amazing thing to me is that she even danced!
Welcome back to the thread.We're visiting Purdue in a couple weeks, our first college visit for DD. She got her ACT score back and is satisfied with it. Prom isn't until May 5th, so still a few weeks away. We got her dress back in November and picked it up last weekend after it was hemmed.