Susan's Pendulum

He's still waiting to hear the verdict as to whether he was accepted to the RN program at our local tech school.  Fantastic program with...

Paul being "hooded." During the ceremony. Being dismissed. His medallion is for graduating magna cum laude.

Andrew was accepted into the RN program he applied for. He's in the process of updating his vaccinations. His program planning meeting...

It looks to me as though Andrew has been doing well at math. His test grades are great. But he doesn't feel as though he has an adequ...

Sometimes it comes up in conversation that Andrew is looking at colleges. A few months ago he was considering what he might want to study, ...

The majority of my readers probably already know about last month's Call Day. It's when the graduating seminarians to receive their...

Thursday was Match Day for the fourth-year med-school students all across the country. For those of you who hang out in LCMS circles, it...

I love this place ! (The price-tag scares the dickens out of me, but that's another issue.) I can't put my finger on what it is, bu...

And more rejoicing on the clep-front. Paul took the Western Civ I test today, and scored a 68! Wow! With his cleps, a few credits that he...

When we took Philip to college, it was a 70-80 minute drive to get there, depending on traffic. He lived in dorms 6 [long] blocks from Wie...

Information from Paul's college's cafeteria arrived recently. It touts the healthy food choices available, but the word "healt...

Housing is hard to come by at the local public university. We put down a housing deposit for Paul early last winter, knowing that he stood ...

Back in the ancient days, when I was in college, back when people programmed computers in Fortran and Cobol, there was a conundrum of how di...

Learning Outside the Lines is excellent reading for kids with learning disabilities who are headed off to college. The subtitle is "T...

More and more colleges are building dorms with suites that consist of four or five tiny bedrooms and a private bathroom and possibly a kitch...

For those wanting to get a rough idea of how their kid's financial aid forms for college will turn out, check out a couple of these webs...