My daughter is finishing up her freshman year at ISU. It's been an emotionally draining year for her on campus being so far from home and making friends has been really really hard for her.
Following orientation she was SO excited because the school did an AMAZING job of putting kids together in groups to meet people while the parents were off on their own. So she assumed that school starting would be very similar.......... nope. The girl whom was supposed to be her roommate had apparently not notified anybody that she wasn't going to ISU after all, so she went the whole year with no roommate. She lives in the new dorm, Geoffroy, and come to find out her floor is part of the W.I.S.E. community (women in science and engineering), so the kids get to their rooms and shut their doors, and there's no functions/parties between floors. She came back to Texas during Spring Break and it was 80-degrees, and toured TCU and a couple other local schools because she's so homesick.
BUT, since spring break she's had a change of heart. She's been inducted into two honor societies, and elected as an office in one group as well as elected as an office in Collegiate Women in Business. She's told me she's dropping her minor to add a second major, and because of her grades she's been accepted into the Professional Program as a freshman and can begin taking classes in her major. And she has signed a lease for next year with a girl she befriended at orientation. All this just in time to come home for the summer.
But she still says the weather sucked until today where she phoned to tell me she's sitting on her Mexican blanket by campanile while she studies. And suddenly I'm jealous.
