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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are doing semester or more abroad it’s very helpful to have housing that fits with that. Move out end of fall and not return until September. [/quote]

No way would OP allow study abroad. I find it funny that OP is going on and on about independence and everything when she's a completely overbearing parent who has probably robbed her kid of most independent thought [/quote]

Hi, the real OP here.   DS has already studied abroad during high school!  In fact it was actually that experience [u]living in a dorm[/u] that turned him off to dorm living.
  
It's so odd how many people are projecting that I'm smothering when I've said multiple times on this thread that[i] it's my teen who is driving this.[/i]    He gets to make the final decision.  Maybe you don't like my tone or my audacity in questioning 4-year campus living for adults.  So be it.  That's not the same thing as a hovering mommy.
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Well you did redshirt him. And your tone is awful. [/quote]

Yep, the tone is what did it.  1) You seemingly know little about the college landscape because you were surprised by residential requirements (that's fine). But then 2) Despite this little knowledge, you assert is part of the nanny state/keeping kids from growing up--because you (and your kid) seemingly can only picture what you know about dorms as all there is to know, and then 3) when you get pushback you get all huffy and say you should have known that DCUM is full of people from these little colleges etc. despite many different kinds of colleges/universities worldwide having residential requirements in many different forms for different reasons.  It came off to me as the classic tone deaf combo of little knowledge + strong opinions anyway + rigid worldview.[/quote]

Awesome response!  And totally spot on.[/quote]

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