My son turned 18 today.
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We get a short turn on this ride and then it's time for someone else to get on. Find joy in the present moment. (Even when watching NU football!)
Little Smelly (not so little anymore) is about to turn 18 and next week he finds out if he gets into NU early decision.
Whippersnappers. My older kids are in their 30s. Also have an 11 YO tho
Life is like NU Football? The first quarter is great, The second quarter you start to go down hill. The third quarter you go down hill some more. The fourth quarter is up for grabs.
My daughter turned 37 a few months ago. Only child. Are you old as me?? Probably not?? Trump has an 18 yo and he is 78 yo?? So maybe?
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Mrs. GOU and I have 4 kids, ages 34-42. 5 grandkids too.
I still long for the days I would throw our little chirpers over my shoulder. And give them the direction they needed.
Now they're telling me what to do.
GOUNUII
In my mind, everyone here is about 40 years old and has always been 40 years old, which is why I'm shocked when I hear about people with grandkids or 37-year-old kids.
Multiply times 2 and you've got the upper range. My daughter is now what I once considered old. We're talking dinosaur territory. The cardiac Cats haven't killed us, yet, so if they don't start winning the close ones again, might they be held accountable for the mortality of those of us whose hearts kept on because they once won the squeakers?
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My oldest is 19. Was weird, just for a bit, when he decided not to apply to NU. Crazy though that is the age when I was at NU during the Rose Bowl run. I feel so fortunate to have been a student at that time. It’s clear that storyline will never happen again in college football. Now even if a long suffering program like Indiana makes it to the bigtime, it’s because of dozens of transfers and bigtime NIL $ and not a Gary Barnett building it from the ground up.
Well, I was just shy of 40 when we met at the Cal game 11 years ago....
Now I have a daughter who just turned 16 and is taking driving lessons and I'm scared.
It is amazing how much faster life goes once you have children.
Congratulations @Eurocat . Kids make life worth living. All the best to your son.
And I was a little over 40 then and was in Berkeley again two weeks ago with the same college-bound kid (Cal is further down the list than NU).
With kids they say the days are long but the years are short.
There are a bunch of fine universities out there and I enjoyed all those campus visits.
Great way to see new areas and spend time with your kids, because those days are numbered...
My two were on different academic tracks, so I got fairly distinct sets of schools.
Wisconsin-Madison was a safety for one and a reach for the other.
When the student tour guide asked "Does anybody have any questions?" I was usually ready.
"What would you say the economic diversity is around here for the student body?"
"Are you happy with your decision to come here?"
At every Ivy... "What percentage of the students take any interest in the athletic teams?"
On the Northwestern tour the guide kept calling the lakefill the "landfill." That became a thing.
At UCLA - "It seems like the Greek kids have their own thing going socially - is that true?"
(Female tour guide pulls me aside and says the Hispanic kids tend to not be in the frats and sororities...)
At Cornell "I see those nets by the bridge - how bad are the winters around here?"
At Dartmouth, Dayton and Miami, Ohio - "What is the social scene like? What do you guys do for fun?" Answer at all 3 "Not much - a lot of people drink."
At Berkeley "what are all those kids doing over there?" "Oh, they're playing Quidditch!" "Really? Why?"
Probably my favorite was stopping two tall young women who were walking the opposite direction, explaining that we were touring Berkeley's campus and asking how they felt about being there... Response in an Australian accent "Oh its f**king GREAT!" followed by a discussion of the university and student body and the city, with a string of colorful observations about the faculty, punctuated with f-bombs...
You can learn a lot by going off script.
Great way to see new areas and spend time with your kids, because those days are numbered...
My two were on different academic tracks, so I got fairly distinct sets of schools.
Wisconsin-Madison was a safety for one and a reach for the other.
When the student tour guide asked "Does anybody have any questions?" I was usually ready.
"What would you say the economic diversity is around here for the student body?"
"Are you happy with your decision to come here?"
At every Ivy... "What percentage of the students take any interest in the athletic teams?"
On the Northwestern tour the guide kept calling the lakefill the "landfill." That became a thing.
At UCLA - "It seems like the Greek kids have their own thing going socially - is that true?"
(Female tour guide pulls me aside and says the Hispanic kids tend to not be in the frats and sororities...)
At Cornell "I see those nets by the bridge - how bad are the winters around here?"
At Dartmouth, Dayton and Miami, Ohio - "What is the social scene like? What do you guys do for fun?" Answer at all 3 "Not much - a lot of people drink."
At Berkeley "what are all those kids doing over there?" "Oh, they're playing Quidditch!" "Really? Why?"
Probably my favorite was stopping two tall young women who were walking the opposite direction, explaining that we were touring Berkeley's campus and asking how they felt about being there... Response in an Australian accent "Oh its f**king GREAT!" followed by a discussion of the university and student body and the city, with a string of colorful observations about the faculty, punctuated with f-bombs...
You can learn a lot by going off script.
As I remember, when it was being constructed, it was called the landfill. Dartmouth and drinking?
Son 18 today
Planes to catch and bills to pay
To Bursar's Office
Planes to catch and bills to pay
To Bursar's Office
I get to brag a bit because I'm older than all of you put together.
I have 3 daughters. They have all surpassed me many times over. The oldest is 56 and a Vice President of Procter & Gamble. She went to 2 state schools. My second daughter is a partner in a white shoe DC law firm who practices international arbitration and argues her cases at the world bank in Spanish. Daughter number 3 is a doctorate in neurological psychology specializing in brain injuries. Daughters one and two are world travelers having been in such diverse locations as China, Poland, UK, Italy, Germany, many countries in central and south America, etc. I am extremely proud to say that daughter number one has been declared persona non grata in Russia, and was expelled from that wasteland.
Time flies when you're having fun. Oh yeah, did I say they all went to state schools for their undergraduate work?
I have 3 daughters. They have all surpassed me many times over. The oldest is 56 and a Vice President of Procter & Gamble. She went to 2 state schools. My second daughter is a partner in a white shoe DC law firm who practices international arbitration and argues her cases at the world bank in Spanish. Daughter number 3 is a doctorate in neurological psychology specializing in brain injuries. Daughters one and two are world travelers having been in such diverse locations as China, Poland, UK, Italy, Germany, many countries in central and south America, etc. I am extremely proud to say that daughter number one has been declared persona non grata in Russia, and was expelled from that wasteland.
Time flies when you're having fun. Oh yeah, did I say they all went to state schools for their undergraduate work?
Thanks for sharing and congrats WJ. Nothing better than being a proud father.
I feel the same way about all my kids. They have lapped me several times over.
GOUNUII
Where does the time go? Daughter #1 is a junior at UM, taking the Amtrak home from Ann Arbor as I type. Daughter #2 is a sophomore at NU, currently watching “Modern Family” with my NU grad wife, Mrs. Dugan15, in the next room. Life is good…but I am cognizant that I am not the young man I fancy myself to be.
My wife and I babysat an actual baby last night. 3 months or so. Parents first night out.
My youngest is now 11 so it’s been a while, and let me tell you, babies are the worst.
Boring. Whiny. Incapable.
Thankfully he slept most of the time.
My teens and tween are hilarious and smart and all have developed different interests and viewpoints and are mostly willing to talk about those things with me, and I love it so much. Very excited to see…post teens, but I’ve still got half a decade.
I assume nobody on the board is younger than, say, mid-30s. So I assume there are few that will be that offended by baby-slander.
My youngest is now 11 so it’s been a while, and let me tell you, babies are the worst.
Boring. Whiny. Incapable.
Thankfully he slept most of the time.
My teens and tween are hilarious and smart and all have developed different interests and viewpoints and are mostly willing to talk about those things with me, and I love it so much. Very excited to see…post teens, but I’ve still got half a decade.
I assume nobody on the board is younger than, say, mid-30s. So I assume there are few that will be that offended by baby-slander.
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