{"id":3770,"date":"2011-08-30T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2011-08-27T18:52:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T22:52:39","slug":"scenes-from-dropping-off-a-college-sophomore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=3770","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from dropping off a college sophomore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observations from helping my daughter move into her student apartment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why do people rush to buy milk and eggs before a storm that&#8217;s predicted to wipe out your power: do people in the Northeast regularly plan hurricane parties with eggnog funneling?<\/li>\n<li>Electronic locks on summer storage spaces (tied to student IDs) removes significant friction out of accessing stuff. It doesn&#8217;t remove the risk to middle-aged backs, but it removes a significant amount of time that would otherwise require someone to supervise the space or someone to give out keys.<\/li>\n<li>Thank you, college facilities folks, for letting students pick up keys until midnight the evening we needed it. See <em>friction, reduction of<\/em>, above.<\/li>\n<li>I guess I should appreciate the advice, dear fellow parent, but being a parent to me means helping out, not taking over. She&#8217;s 19. (Personally, I wish she would take me up on the offer of a small step-ladder, but I recognize few undergraduates die or fail classes from the lack of one.)<\/li>\n<li>Geekery depends on context. One student meeting a friend in the student apartment area: &#8220;Did you read any Russian lit over the summer?&#8221; Response: &#8220;I read\u00a0<em>The Master and Margarita<\/em>.&#8221; &#8220;Cool.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>1970s apartment wiring does not mix well with 2011 electronic equipment. Because the only grounded circuits have the GFCI-protected kitchen outlets and bathroom outlets, guess where the laptops will likely be plugged in for charging? (No, <em>not<\/em>\u00a0the bathroom!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>I&#8217;m going to pay for this short trip for the rest of the week, but this is parenting as a faculty member; you&#8217;re pulled in different directions, sometimes more intensely. In this particular case, helping an adult child in college is much easier than most other parenting duties. I&#8217;m exhausted after the trip for reasons more closely related to hurricanes and sleep deprivation than carrying boxes for a few hours.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observations from helping my daughter move into her student apartment: Why do people rush to buy milk and eggs before a storm that&#8217;s predicted to wipe out your power: do people in the Northeast regularly plan hurricane parties with eggnog funneling? 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