Schedule Conflicts
As always, life is a series of schedule conflicts. This weekend is the Swim Championship. But this weekend is also the Model UN Conference. Zoë talked with her swim coach and the Model UN sponsor, and among them determined that Model UN won out.
I'm interested to hear how she liked it. Model UN is not something I ever would have guessed she'd try. She was excited for the trip, although outraged that the schedule includes late-night meetings ("don't they know how important sleep is?!") which is probably influenced by the getting-up-at-4:30am-for-swim-practice life she's been leading for the past few months. But with the Championship, that's over too. And we'll slide right into crew season.
She has a very very slight chance of making the varsity 8 boat in crew, so I suspect as soon as she's back from Model UN I'll have to negotiate with her for time on the erg. So far I've hit every day this year (yes, yes, still in January), which is unfortunately really amazing for me.
Zoë's allergies frustrated her enough that she wanted to see an allergist, which she did. And found she's allergic to everything. Formalizing how we were handling her allergies and making her room a clean room (fish only, Lemmy not allowed. Removed all extra stuffed animals and pillows. Wash everything on hot every week - it's amazing my college comforter hasn't completely disintegrated yet) helped enough that she's steadfast against getting shots. We'll see how she feels when it's not the middle of winter. She's also made it through the swim season without an ear infection. Hoping that bodes well for her future, since club swim continues and then there's summer swim.
Zoë's been inundated with college mail. She's said she wants to go to a big, co-ed, not rural, college with a crew program she can join. And probably a club swim program she can join. Since she's still talking about dentistry, she understands that she needs to start at a 4 year (most dental schools do not accept science courses from a community college) and money is the driver of her decision (the goal is to graduate with nothing in loans) which likely means an in-state, public school. Over the next semester I need to get her to lay out some thoughts about where she'd like to visit this summer and next year. She keeps talking about Wash U. Maybe I should go ahead and take her, but it would be a complete long-shot. And so many med students go there, I'm afraid she'd end up with some serious weeder courses and rather than enjoy her science classes just see them as a grind. It's funny that she's fixated on the school my parents went to (and did not suggest at all for me, even with my grandmother living locally and having space to house a college student).
I'm interested to hear how she liked it. Model UN is not something I ever would have guessed she'd try. She was excited for the trip, although outraged that the schedule includes late-night meetings ("don't they know how important sleep is?!") which is probably influenced by the getting-up-at-4:30am-for-swim-practice life she's been leading for the past few months. But with the Championship, that's over too. And we'll slide right into crew season.
She has a very very slight chance of making the varsity 8 boat in crew, so I suspect as soon as she's back from Model UN I'll have to negotiate with her for time on the erg. So far I've hit every day this year (yes, yes, still in January), which is unfortunately really amazing for me.
Zoë's allergies frustrated her enough that she wanted to see an allergist, which she did. And found she's allergic to everything. Formalizing how we were handling her allergies and making her room a clean room (fish only, Lemmy not allowed. Removed all extra stuffed animals and pillows. Wash everything on hot every week - it's amazing my college comforter hasn't completely disintegrated yet) helped enough that she's steadfast against getting shots. We'll see how she feels when it's not the middle of winter. She's also made it through the swim season without an ear infection. Hoping that bodes well for her future, since club swim continues and then there's summer swim.
Zoë's been inundated with college mail. She's said she wants to go to a big, co-ed, not rural, college with a crew program she can join. And probably a club swim program she can join. Since she's still talking about dentistry, she understands that she needs to start at a 4 year (most dental schools do not accept science courses from a community college) and money is the driver of her decision (the goal is to graduate with nothing in loans) which likely means an in-state, public school. Over the next semester I need to get her to lay out some thoughts about where she'd like to visit this summer and next year. She keeps talking about Wash U. Maybe I should go ahead and take her, but it would be a complete long-shot. And so many med students go there, I'm afraid she'd end up with some serious weeder courses and rather than enjoy her science classes just see them as a grind. It's funny that she's fixated on the school my parents went to (and did not suggest at all for me, even with my grandmother living locally and having space to house a college student).