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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Visiting your student in college might just induce a great deal of anxiety in them. If you go, stay in a hotel (not their apartment) take all their laundry to a laundromat, scrub their bathroom and kitchen, take them to dinner and leave. They have no time to waste socializing and even if it looks like they have nothing to do, they are sweating about something they have to turn in at midnight and aren’t really enjoying the visit. I know you see a visit as a mini-vacation but for them it’s work. [/quote]

Sounds like solid advice, but when I visit my kid - who is having a happy freshman experience - he seems excited to get off campus for dinner or some sightseeing with me. My take is that he likes the brief reprieve from the stress bubble. And a change of pace from the d-hall. [/quote]
My husband had a work conference a few weeks in the city where dc goes to college and got done with the conference at 12 on a weekday and dd was also done with classes by then and so DH took DD out for lunch and a coffee date and then took her and a few friends out for dinner.

DD reports it was the highlight of her week, maybe month! [/quote]

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