Ten Things Your New Adult Will Learn Within 24 Hours Of Arriving On Campus
#1: They will be FINE.
My new Covid pastime involves actively participating on the Facebook parent page for my son’s university, Class of 2025. But with a twist. Little by little, I have revealed to the group my dirty little secret: I actually live on that exact campus. I have for years.
Yeah it’s totally weird. I don’t deny it. It’s a long story.
Bottom line, we are a faculty family embedded in a residential college on the same campus our son, a faculty “brat,” has elected to attend, and we have literally seen it all. As a result, I have a snarky and sometimes only partially correct response to every angsty question parents pose on the FB page as they wrestle with the existential dread associated with the pending drop off. And make no mistake- that day is coming like a speeding truck aimed directly at all of our unprepared, helicopter hearts.
Clearly, everyone, including myself, is certain the kids are the ones who are unprepared. Not us. And everyone is 100% right. But it’s ok. This is part of the process. They may have learned what they needed to know to gain acceptance into their institutions of higher learning. But everything they need to know about survival on campus they will figure out within the first couple of days after you drive…
