Dirty boxers plus Fabreeze, plus a floor fan overnight, and they're almost the same as washed.
"Clean" your computer before you go home- parents know how to look at more than just history.
When a prof says he'll drop the two lowest quiz grades, that is not a license to skip two quizzes.
Shock your parents occasionally-call them from the library. (this is true-for the first time in 5 years, my son answered his cell phone in a whisper as he as in the library. I wasn't sure he knew where it was)
Don't charge the ABC store to your debit card when the bill goes home.
Go Hokies! Go Rams! Go Captains!
Posts: 1772 | Location: Virginia | Registered: December 28, 2002
Don't charge the ABC store to your debit card when the bill goes home.
Frequent (3x a week) 6 dollar purchases on the Debit Card at Gas Stations aren't for gas....
The above is funny and very true.
When son first went off to school, I was wondering what the "Huddle House" was. So many frequent trips! What was he doing there so late early in the morning.
I should have guessed, feeding the bottomless pit!
Posts: 10723 | Location: South Florida | Registered: July 28, 2003
That's why our son went back to school without the gas cards! His vehicle stayed home so there was no need for the gas card. Boy, did he argue why he needed to have one. So, we just pulled out some of the more recent gas bills to show him not all of his purchases were for gas.
End of conversation!
Posts: 46 | Location: Long Beach, Ca. | Registered: September 18, 2007
Be sure and wrap the chain for the moped around the frame before you lock it. Anybody need an extra front wheel for a Honda moped? Comes with chain and lock.
"There are two kinds of people in this game: those who are humble and those who are about to be." Clint Hurdle
Posts: 1658 | Location: New Mexico | Registered: January 22, 2006
Originally posted by spizzlepop: Be sure and wrap the chain for the moped around the frame before you lock it. Anybody need an extra front wheel for a Honda moped? Comes with chain and lock.
You try to give advice to your kid, but they are all knowing until it happens to them.....
Posts: 992 | Location: CA | Registered: March 12, 2003
When they're planning out their itinerary to fly home for the Thanksgiving Holidays they think arriving at the airport a half hour before their flight leaves is plenty of time.
Common sense is not a class offered at college!
Posts: 46 | Location: Long Beach, Ca. | Registered: September 18, 2007
Not to announce that he is an adult and that grades are his business and house rules shouldn't apply - unless he is willing and able to take over footing the bill.
Posts: 156 | Location: VA | Registered: February 09, 2007
I've couldn't wait to post one of the many lessons freshman son has learned at college. With a pretty nasty virus making its way thru the baseball team, sending several players including my son to the doctor.......I asked if he disinfected his room along with the apartment.......his reply "I've been spraying FABREEZE everyday". Once I stopped laughing I explained that the FABREEZE was to kill the odors.....it does not kill germs.
Posts: 19 | Location: South | Registered: June 13, 2005
packets of Kool-Aid don't make good Daiquiri mixers
you will have beer that tastes bad going down, but none that feels bad going out
term papers written at the beach somehow don't make the same sense when you get back to the dorm
great looking lab partners won't help a 7am biology lab
playing the field usually keeps you playing the field
protect the your "Little Black Book" at all costs...it can be sold to underclassmen when you graduate
don't trust upperclassman...they have a warped sense of humor
when a parent calls during the poker game, yelling "ANTE UP !@#$%$#@$%^" in the background is bad form
only play poker with friends
the communication network girls have on campus WILL catch you cheating on a girlfriend
avoid at all costs being a topic at a sorority meeting
be nice to roomates's sisters...no matter how pretty they they are they are off limits
same applies for roomates girlfriends
realize that some things just ain't meant to be eaten...even if the inernational students do so
careful dating sorority girls...make one mad and they are all mad
take lessons from Mom about the laundry and cooking BEFORE going to college
be friends with the Dean of Students...they overrule the Dean of Women ( this saved my butt once)
personal hygiene is not a maybe thing
if a younger sibling decides to enroll at your collge...well, just realize life as you knew it is over
if a grad asst is teaching your class and brags he never has made less than an "A"....walk out and immediatedly drop this class. doesn't matter if it's basketweaving 101; drop asap.
listen to Mom and Dad (particularly Mom)...she holds the trump cards in the house
Things my son has learned: Family and relationships can be fragile - sisters are great...most of the time. And real friends are rare. Sisters occasionly rat you out to Mom - A true friend never will.
Dad knows more than originally thought - must have learned it last month. You know, one of spontaneous intelligent phenomena's.
Mama sure knows a lot. Mama sure knows a lot - way too much and budgets everything.
$Dad$ ha$ more per$onality.
Posts: 59 | Location: Alabama | Registered: December 30, 2002
Unfortunately, everything I mentioned I had to learn the hard way. Alot of fun and heartache mixed together.
I tell people people I graduated by being given "Social Promotions"...university figured I was older,had paid enough money over the years and must have learned something.
I really feel sorry for my son when he goes to college....he'll have to be very creative to come up with something I didn't try or hear about. Still amazed my Dad didn't follow through on disowning me.
If invited as a freshman to play poker with the upperclassmen don't be deluded into thinking you're in the club. They want you to bring the beer and take your money.
Posts: 1632 | Location: Mid-Atlantic | Registered: October 29, 2007
So many frequent trips! What was he doing there so 
