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| 07.13.04 (1:44 pm) [edit] |
[i][b]I figure if the kids are alive when I get home, then I've done my job. ~Roseanne[/b][/i]
My daughter has been talking about going to college for a few months now. This is quite a change from the little 6 year old who would burst into tears at the mention of the word college. (I think this was due to the fact that for the first 5 years of her life, I lived with my parents in town, while my love was away at college 80 miles away). So, she has been talking about college and what she wants to do with her life. [i]Holy shit, my 16 year old seems to have a life plan and I still don't know what [i]I [/i]want to be when I grow up,[/i] but that's another blog. She loves writing and movies, so she wants to go into journalism or screen play writing or something to that effect. We went through all of this last spring when she was registering for her junior year. Any way, she came to my love and I and said "I have decided what college I want to go to." My love, being the wonderful, yet naive, dad that he is says, "That's great. I'm glad to see you are staying focused on your education" (doesn't he sound so grown up? :lol: Then he proceeds to tell her, "As long as you continue to bring home A's, you can go anywhere you want. We'll take care of it." [i]We'll take care of it? Has he forgotten that he told her last year we would buy her a car if she brought home straight A's? Incedentally, a third car has been sitting in our driveway since she brought home a 4.0 GPA last semester.[/i] "That's awesome she says. I have decided I want to go to NYU. They have the best film studies in the country...blah, blah, yadda, yadda...." I have no idea what to say. And as I look at my love I can see the dollar signs adding up in his head. Let's see at least 4 years tuition, room and board, books, fees, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda.......
I compose myself enough to say, "Um sweetie, you really shouldn't bank on just one school, you should have a back up or two. I don't think the one you have chosen is easy to get into. " Her reply? "I'm a step ahead of you Mom. My back up school is Stanford." WTF!! Stanford is her back up?????
Needless to say, I have been thinking this over for a week now. And my love and I are going to do everything we can to help her get ahead in life. And if that means selling everything we own and moving her to New York, well then, I guess we can drug her, put her in the car and drive around for a few days, and then when we pull up to Colorado State we can say "Wow, can you believe how much New York looks like Colorado?"
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posted by: Cyberpal (reply)
post date: 07.16.04 (11:14 am)
Your daughter seems like a gurl who knows what she wants... I wish I had been so organised at that age!! But dony worry, as she's only 16.. all that could change when she finds out what her pals are doing or where they wanna go! All the best with it though! :)
posted by: jennluna (reply)
post date: 07.19.04 (5:49 am)
Amazing isn't it? I'm sure she will change her mind several times before an actual decision is made. It just blows me away that a child of mine can be so centered. :) My youngest is another story. I always joke that if she graduates highschool with less than 3 tattoos then we have succeeded:) lol
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