We visited Pittsburgh for a mandatory session required for all incoming freshpeople this past weekend, during the great heat wave of 2011. Last summer we made our campus "do I want to come here?" visit during similar conditions. We seem unable to visit Pittsburgh when the temperature is less than 100 degress F. I was actually glad we had spent the extra money to stay in a Holiday Inn that is literally right on campus. My daughter Olivia stayed in the dorms and got a bit of a taste of what that will be like. She enjoyed her roommate and they were apparently visited by a couple of boys who "just wanted to talk, honest!" (HA! Shotgun, please.) She was scheduled into her Fall Semester classes, which include Biology 2 and its appropriate lab (thank you, AP exam!), social psychology, an advanced English composition course (again, thanks AP exam), and, since she is in a Learning Community appropriately named "Konnichiwa," she is taking Japanese 1.
Olivia met with her advisor and got along well with him. She is signed up for a bank account that links to her student ID (which she also received) and thanks to Dad's credit card, her books will be set aside and paid for by the first day of classes thanks to a program that the Pitt Book Store conned, er, talked me into joining. It will save her waiting in line to buy her books. I remember the insane lines at the University of Virginia bookstore when I was an undergraduate, and having her books pre-purchased will be a considerable convenience. Of course, I also remember having to collect punch cards in order to reserve my seat in a class in order to build my U.Va. schedule Technology just shy of sacrificing a goat....
We still have lots to do and to prepare, but it looks like we will make it. Moving in to a 14th floor dorm room on the same day that 7,000 other families are doing the same should be...interesting. In a Chinese curse sort of way.
Olivia met with her advisor and got along well with him. She is signed up for a bank account that links to her student ID (which she also received) and thanks to Dad's credit card, her books will be set aside and paid for by the first day of classes thanks to a program that the Pitt Book Store conned, er, talked me into joining. It will save her waiting in line to buy her books. I remember the insane lines at the University of Virginia bookstore when I was an undergraduate, and having her books pre-purchased will be a considerable convenience. Of course, I also remember having to collect punch cards in order to reserve my seat in a class in order to build my U.Va. schedule Technology just shy of sacrificing a goat....
We still have lots to do and to prepare, but it looks like we will make it. Moving in to a 14th floor dorm room on the same day that 7,000 other families are doing the same should be...interesting. In a Chinese curse sort of way.
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