18-year-old roommate talks to her girlfriend on the phone from 10 PM to 3 AM every night, keeping her roommates up all night: ‘I am MISERABLE! My ears have bruises from sleeping in AirPods for the last 4 months.’

She’s lucky she didn’t tell their RA about this during week one of living together.  Freshman year dorm roommates are always such a gamble. Some lucky ducks are able to live with their friends or acquaintances from high school, but most of us get shoved into a bedroom with a complete stranger. It’s bad enough …
Seguir leyendo 18-year-old roommate talks to her girlfriend on the phone from 10 PM to 3 AM every night, keeping her roommates up all night: ‘I am MISERABLE! My ears have bruises from sleeping in AirPods for the last 4 months.’

Mom of an incoming University of Arkansas freshman asks fellow parents how to help her daughter remember her key to her dorm: ‘Remembering to take a key everywhere she goes is going to be a lot.’

When my sister and I were in college, my mom participated in her fair share of «Parents of the Class of 20XX» Facebook groups. While I went to a regular, degular state school, my kid sister’s school was much more full of rich kids and their parents who thought they could throw money at all …
Seguir leyendo Mom of an incoming University of Arkansas freshman asks fellow parents how to help her daughter remember her key to her dorm: ‘Remembering to take a key everywhere she goes is going to be a lot.’

Parents constantly track 18-year-old college freshman’s phone, expect him to be in bed by 10 PM every night: ‘My mother called while I was out clubbing, and when I didn’t pick up she called my school’s police dispatch’

College is one of the best times in a young person’s life for one reason: freedom. When you’re a kid, you are afforded very few freedoms. You cannot go wherever you want to go or do whatever you want to do. You must be home when your parents want you home, adhere to their rules, …
Seguir leyendo Parents constantly track 18-year-old college freshman’s phone, expect him to be in bed by 10 PM every night: ‘My mother called while I was out clubbing, and when I didn’t pick up she called my school’s police dispatch’