Let’s lighten the mood - funny stories?

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Anonymous wrote:I thought my oldest’s head was going to explode any time someone asked about the cost of laundry. He complained endlessly about it for months. How he didn’t want to go to school with numbnuts.

Serious question, do some schools charge for laundry? At the schools my 3 kids went to laundry is free. Is free laundry only a private school thing?

DC1 had to pay for washers, DC2 free. Both public.

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Anonymous wrote:We took a tour of Mitchell College, and we knew within minutes of arriving it wasn’t for my child but we decided to stick it out, mostly because the tour was a surreal fever dream of an experience. The guide was being shadowed by a trainee who apparently thought “shadowing” meant repeating everything the experienced guide said verbatim right after she said it. Every. Single. Word. This guy even repeated her answers to our questions. And she acted like him echoing her for a solid 30 minutes wasn’t the most bizarre thing on earth, like this was a totally normal way to train someone. I have never seen anything like it.

Mitchell College in CT? It's well known for being a school with strong supports for students with various special needs. Echoing her answers could be the way he learns best.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought my oldest’s head was going to explode any time someone asked about the cost of laundry. He complained endlessly about it for months. How he didn’t want to go to school with numbnuts.

Serious question, do some schools charge for laundry? At the schools my 3 kids went to laundry is free. Is free laundry only a private school thing?

DD at NESCAC SLAC and laundry is not free

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Anonymous wrote:Serious question, do some schools charge for laundry? At the schools my 3 kids went to laundry is free. Is free laundry only a private school thing?

It's the most expensive free laundry you'll ever use.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband and daughter were on a tour of Yale with a married couple of prospective students, both 18. They asked the tour guide several very specific, nuanced questions about married housing for freshman. The tour guide later told my husband that he’d never been so caught off guard on a tour.

This actually is not funny. It’s an end run around financial aid. If married, your parents income does not get counted. So if they were a platonic couple hoping for a separate bedroom and small living room (so they could have two beds), those questions make sense. Total scam. Hope the guide let his supervisor know.

Two platonic kids get married so one or both gets more financial aid? That sounds less likely than it being a real relationship.

Actually, it's worth about $900,000 if they are from UMC families who don't want to pay. I know of one pair that did this, got full rides, and got divorced immediately after graduation. Not common, but it does happen.

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One kid, laundry is included, the other had to pay for it

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Anonymous wrote:So about the Chik Fil A, my kid checks for pho restaurants. It’s very challenging in certain places to find anything other than basic Chinese food restaurants. He could eat pho every day

I hear Worcester Polytechn is good for pho. It was a criterion of my friend’s daughter.

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This is so old, it’s my story from the 80s! My mom drove me all over the East Coast to visit various universities and colleges. She participated in all of the tours, save one. When we arrived at Lehigh, she took one look at the very tall flight of stairs leading up to the University Center and said, “I’ll wait in the car.” Of course that was the school I chose!

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Anonymous wrote:We took a tour of Mitchell College, and we knew within minutes of arriving it wasn’t for my child but we decided to stick it out, mostly because the tour was a surreal fever dream of an experience. The guide was being shadowed by a trainee who apparently thought “shadowing” meant repeating everything the experienced guide said verbatim right after she said it. Every. Single. Word. This guy even repeated her answers to our questions. And she acted like him echoing her for a solid 30 minutes wasn’t the most bizarre thing on earth, like this was a totally normal way to train someone. I have never seen anything like it.

That’s amazing. DS and I would have stuck it out for that, too.

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DD was so excited about the Chick Fil A on campus at Cal Poly. We went there to eat lunch right after our morning tour but found that there was a 25 minute wait. We decided to go there after the afternoon major-focused tour and got there again past 2pm and the line was even longer. Then, she found out that the city of SLO does not allow any drive thrus. That was it for Cal Poly.

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Any other funny stories? C’mon!