If your student is away at college now (living on campus or very close by) what activities are there

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Anonymous wrote:It’s the same stuff they always offered that kids skipped to go to parties. Paint night, movies on the lawn, outdoor yoga, a bunch of virtual stuff. According to the facebook group for parents, kids are miserable stuck in their singles.

Can’t blame them. Sounds miserable. Very glad my kid has a roommate. They are offering many similar outdoor activities plus they have a closed campus Netflix-type offering so he and his roommate stayed in, watched a movie, and ordered pizza.

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Anonymous wrote:I am up In Amherst MA at dinner at the Texas Roadhouse. I see absolutely no difference. I moved daughter and I was only one with mask at her apt complex. There was 16 people moving in at once all no masks

This. Kids are hanging out in each other’s dorm rooms and going to parties same as always.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s the same stuff they always offered that kids skipped to go to parties. Paint night, movies on the lawn, outdoor yoga, a bunch of virtual stuff. According to the facebook group for parents, kids are miserable stuck in their singles.

So the school is offering things and the students just stay in their rooms instead? That's on them, not on the college. Yoga or outdoor movies may not be their thing but this is a time to try new stuff and not let "I want to do what I used to do" make them choose to be miserable.

And "I want to do what I used to do" is what's driving off-campus partying that is spiking Covid clusters and shutting down in-person classes.

The kids sitting in singles need to get some Jackbox games and play them remotely with friends at least.

I agree, but my kid wouldn’t go to this stuff last year and I don’t blame them this year. The problem is that half the kids come in knowing someone and quickly make a group of friends. The quieter kids who show up with no one are screwed.

Honey. They aren’t kids anymore. They are adults.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope they are hosting outside parties with masks. If protests are okay, then this should be just as okay.

It makes me crazy on what the media has made okay and what is not okay.

I get it. We want Trump out. I do too but stop pretending the protests were okay.

I am a member of the media. I can confirm this. It was item 3.1 on April’s quarterly meeting of the Network cabals and hangers on. Dan Rather led a breakout session on “how we can use the power of our platforms to screw Trump out of a second term”.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s the same stuff they always offered that kids skipped to go to parties. Paint night, movies on the lawn, outdoor yoga, a bunch of virtual stuff. According to the facebook group for parents, kids are miserable stuck in their singles.

So the school is offering things and the students just stay in their rooms instead? That's on them, not on the college. Yoga or outdoor movies may not be their thing but this is a time to try new stuff and not let "I want to do what I used to do" make them choose to be miserable.

And "I want to do what I used to do" is what's driving off-campus partying that is spiking Covid clusters and shutting down in-person classes.

The kids sitting in singles need to get some Jackbox games and play them remotely with friends at least.

I agree, but my kid wouldn’t go to this stuff last year and I don’t blame them this year. The problem is that half the kids come in knowing someone and quickly make a group of friends. The quieter kids who show up with no one are screwed.

Honey. They aren’t kids anymore. They are adults.

Immature adults.

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DD school in Ohio gave them colored pencils to create pictures...

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I have one who is a senior this year living in a house with 3 others. They have very little common space, but are converting the garage into a weight room. My kid and another are lifters but all gyms are closed. It is an interesting hobby before classes really get going next week as the are literally making the weights. Apparently, buying weights has gotten really expensive so they bought molds and supplies and will be making them out of cement - even coating them. Something to do and so far they are out the cost of two used weight benches, three bars, and the hardware for the weight stands - still to be made.

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My kid left life 360 on. I peaked at it. I saw she traveled two friend apartments and supermarket. Exciting. I don’t know if she realizes it is still on.

Her three roommates are out and about too. Trouble is when four girls live together and then all have friends and boyfriends and shopping and jobs they are busy and the trust circle keeps growing

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Reading. Skatboarding around campus. Cooking (elaborate for him) meals with roommates. Facetiming with his grandparents every night. There are plenty of things kids can do that won't involved gathering in large groups.

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My kid is doing lots of university sponsored activities. Bingo night, tie dying, trivia, neighborhood walking tour, craft night, open mic night. She’s not really a partier anyway

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is doing lots of university sponsored activities. Bingo night, tie dying, trivia, neighborhood walking tour, craft night, open mic night. She’s not really a partier anyway

+1 This is what my kid is doing too. She’s really happy with these activities. She’s not a partier either. I told her it’s the year of the introvert! Well, she’s not necessarily an introvert, but she’s not a partier. I could see that if your kid is into partying that this year could be hard but for them, but if you weren’t planning to party anyway that’s not a big loss.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid left life 360 on. I peaked at it. I saw she traveled two friend apartments and supermarket. Exciting. I don’t know if she realizes it is still on.

Her three roommates are out and about too. Trouble is when four girls live together and then all have friends and boyfriends and shopping and jobs they are busy and the trust circle keeps growing

Kids don't care. They have GPS on all their apps, their friends (and non friends) can see where they are 24/7.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is doing lots of university sponsored activities. Bingo night, tie dying, trivia, neighborhood walking tour, craft night, open mic night. She’s not really a partier anyway

+1 This is what my kid is doing too. She’s really happy with these activities. She’s not a partier either. I told her it’s the year of the introvert! Well, she’s not necessarily an introvert, but she’s not a partier. I could see that if your kid is into partying that this year could be hard but for them, but if you weren’t planning to party anyway that’s not a big loss.

Mine too!