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Monday, October 10, 2011
There and back again
Off to sleep now. Flight tomorrow. This has been a cool experience but things are good here and I want to be home... Thank you all for joining me on this experence. I hope you have loved watching it unfold as much as I have.
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Sunday, October 9, 2011
Nother walmart trip
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Day 6: ummmm
Everything is in place for cody. Utilitys are sorted, roommates sorted, has his books and laptop. Schools been checked out, apartment checked, and all goals for this trip achieved. Time for me to lay low until time to catch the bird out tomorrow
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The chamber poster refers to this HUGE Gaming room with all kinds of cool stuff in it!!!
Grades B4 Games!!!
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Day Recap
Wow what a day! went to the park and they had lunch for us, then they split us into parents and students. the students went on a scavenger hunt where they learned about neumont and all of the things they needed to know headed into their first day on Monday. They meet teachers from the university at each stop and had to complete a challenge in order to progress. They had to code a simple website, beat the English teacher @ boggle, solve riddles, and all of that.
Parent orientation was amazing! The president of the university spoke and discussed the things that parents needed to do for their student over the next few months. Since the program is a full bachelor's (including the basics math, english and all of that) they have sections called "sprints" where they take full courses in half the time. They made sure everyone knew that it was going to be a hard and stressful few years. Their was a lot less BS than I anticipated it being. Everyone was very approachable and forthcoming. Every grade the student gets is available online to specific users and their graduation track is online as well.
They made sure that the parents knew that this was very doable and that they provided TONS of resources for the student. Cody has an RA that lives 2 mins walking distance away, an "advocate" that tracks his progress and make sure he is staying on track, and everything he needs to make this happen.
Very coool day Vids to come
Parent orientation was amazing! The president of the university spoke and discussed the things that parents needed to do for their student over the next few months. Since the program is a full bachelor's (including the basics math, english and all of that) they have sections called "sprints" where they take full courses in half the time. They made sure everyone knew that it was going to be a hard and stressful few years. Their was a lot less BS than I anticipated it being. Everyone was very approachable and forthcoming. Every grade the student gets is available online to specific users and their graduation track is online as well.
They made sure that the parents knew that this was very doable and that they provided TONS of resources for the student. Cody has an RA that lives 2 mins walking distance away, an "advocate" that tracks his progress and make sure he is staying on track, and everything he needs to make this happen.
Very coool day Vids to come
@ the salt flats
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Change fee!
was going to try and change my flight to tomorrow but it's 200 dollars too much
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