“He’s always been good at math, so… engineering?” If you’ve said some version of that sentence, you’re in very good company. I hear it all
Content warning: this post discusses sexual assault, drug use, and the deaths of college students. Support resources are at the bottom. This isn’t my usual
I hear two sentences constantly, usually from parents who are being very sensible and very organized about all of this. “He wants to be a
At some point this fall you had a question you did not ask. Does the school send the transcript, or do we? Who writes his
You are standing in somebody’s kitchen at a thing you did not really want to go to, and another mom mentions that her junior has
Every spring I get a version of the same phone call. A kid got in, the family is celebrating, and somewhere in the happy part
I get some version of this question constantly: does my child need to be well-rounded for college? Is one club going to sink them? Should
I have gotten a wave of messages lately that are technically four different questions and are all really the same one. My kid won’t join
You have probably agonized over a B. Maybe it was a B in a class everybody says is impossible at your school. Maybe it was
There’s a mom in your group chat right now who just announced that her family isn’t doing early, they’re just doing regular decision. And everybody
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