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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like your DW is being facetious and you are being a drama queen about it.  [b]Also, sending someone off on a bus to college sounds like it would be fairly traumatic and unpleasant for the kid[/b], IMO. [/quote]
Huh? That's what many parents did back in the day (like 15 years ago). [/quote]

Huh.  When I went to college 10 years ago I'm sure glad my parents didn't shove me on a Greyhound.  I'm glad they helped me move in, which is what the vast majority of parents do.  [/quote]

How the heck are you going to send a kid to college on a bus?  All that stuff that you have to bring with you to set up your room....good grief.  Can you imagine traveling with all of that on a danged bus? Sheets, towels, blanket, a year's worth of clothes/shoes, coat, jacket, toiletries, basic school supplies....and that's just the bare minimum.[/quote]
I hate to tell you this but there are a lot of kids that don't come from families that can afford to take a week off to move their kids into college. I went to Univ. of Michigan in the 80s and remember some rich kids who arrived with families, furniture, cars and wardrobes and other (less wealthy) kids who came alone on a bus with the bare essentials. They all survived.[/quote]

This ain't the 80s anymore, dude.  BTW, what "bus" even goes directly to a school?  I mean, how far are we talking?  Is this a cross country bus or a city bus...[/quote]

I went to a state school back in the 80's. No one.  And I mean NO ONE showed up with just a duffel bag and a comb....and on a bus no less.  Even poor people wear clothes, bring sheets, towels, school supplies and a computer if their degree requires it.  Dorm rooms tend to be tiny so even the wealthy kids were limited as to what they could bring. I don't recall ever seeing a kid bring a wardrobe into their dorm room (where would they put it??).

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I am also fascinated by the idea of these buses that are apparently crossing the country and depositing people at their college.  Where I went to college, which was a pretty cushy private school, we had one dumpy bus that ran only during limited business hours and took you in a loop about a mile away, to public transit, and left.  How awesome would it have been if there was some kind of magical schoolbus stopping state to state and picking up kids, dorm equipment in tow, and depositing them at their university?  Sign me the hell up. [/quote]

Heck, yeah.  Especially for holiday breaks.  Just let bus service transport their azzes to/from school.[/quote]

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