Our DC are nearly all officially students now (going to university 2019/20) - seizing the moment, spending, socialising, societies and studying!

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I won't phone him. I've got stuff to do tomorrow anyway. I haven't heard from him properly yet, just a text.

No simbobs, absolutely don't. Where does it stop? He has to learn to get himself up (I gave exactly the same fear about DS).
And if he can hear his phone he can set an alarm on that. Several times.

Thanks for the doorstops links 👍
Feel like I'm very behind but making progress

Dd is now getting excited!

Talking of flatmates, one of DD's school friends has just arrived at Leeds and found out that 7 out of 8 of her flatmates know each other already and have arrived in a big group. That must be the worst case scenario, when you've come to uni hoping to make new friends and everyone already knows each other

There is no bedside table on which to put an audible device
The floor? Which is where I out my phone with alarm in every night.

Wrt kids coming home soon for a visit,it would just let them choose. A friend's boui came back 2 weeks in and was fine,he just needed to see his mates ,have some home cooking and off he went again with no issues.

Ds says he's coming home for reading week.

I am SO going to send advent calendars,thanks for the tip!

No news from my daughter at NTU. She was very relaxed when we left on Friday afternoon.
She won't have me on social media so I've no idea how's she's getting on. I guess she's having an absolute blast due to the lack of contact. Annoying fo3 me but this is about her not me so I'll just have to wait for news for now.
Both my girls have gone to uni in the past 8 days. I'm feeling a bit low and lost despite trying to think about the advantages of no teens in the house.

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Northernlurker thanks so much for the extra info about the balloon fiesta. I did try and post earlier to say thanks but was on a train and it didn’t post properly.

Talked to DD tonight and all she had to say was that she was bored and wants to go now! I think that’s a good sign, but she’s definitely feeling the pressure to make friends and get stuck in right away. It’s hard for her watching all of her friends who are currently having their freshers’ weeks or have even started their courses - she’s the last to go.
I hope all of your DCs are settling in and enjoying themselves. My question is - how often do you expect them to contact you? My suggestion to DD was a daily text, met with ‘no way!’. I think she’d be happy to disappear off the face of the planet for weeks unless I insisted on some form of regular communication! What would be the best compromise & what are you all expecting?

In the last week we've texted daily and spoken once and dh has spoken twice I think.

Posted too soon.

I am stunned there's been as much contact as there has tbh as ds can goes days without speaking to me when we're in the same house

I think replying to texts is fair enough and totally reasonable.especially at the start.

Ds was a bit quiet the first two days but he was busy settling in.

@MrKlaw @Decorhate DS been there now 2 days and starts Freshers tomorrow , and his induction week. He’s taken his tennis racket so hoping to join tennis club, plus I’m hoping he’ll join the orchestra too! Apart from that he’s not got too much idea . 2 text received saying he’s happy and flatmates nice - I’ll give him a week then try for a phone call..... I’m going to look into trains too , getting out of Bath was a nightmare after I dropped him off. Don’t want to do that again until pick up Summer!

I haven’t seen one ‘timetable’ provided. They’re needing to piece it together from various web pages, many hidden a few goes deep. Would be super easy to miss some mandatory sessions during freshers week

I just sneaked a peek at DS's Blackboard site to see if all his materials are on there yet. My God, it's all quite overwhelming since our day now it's all online! All the lecture notes, reading, assignments, info. I sincerely hope he has a proper look at it. He'll turn up to lectures; he's pretty obedient like that, but checking online sites is not this thing.

Oh well! Not my problem! I have bought him the two pricy textbooks and sent them to him, as his loan hasn't come through. To be honest, I have been awake half the night fretting about whether I gave finance the correct bank details.

I must admit I am concerned that eh won't get up for his 9am tutorial! Pretty sure he will as he is so surprised by the hours everyone else keeps while he is up at 9am staring at microwave controls. Trying not to backpack him too much but it's hard as he is so dependent, and I do think I am a backpacker by nature!

@GaraMedouar DSesmight cross paths on the tennis club :)

Agree on the train - not driving into bath except when needed. Actually he isn’t too far from bath spa so I wonder if we could bring him back via train?

I’m loving your use of the word backpack @Piggywaspushed 🤣
Is that thread still running?

I think I'm actually enjoying dd being away. I do miss her but I feel more relaxed than i have for ages! It's helping that we are getting lots of updates, apparently she loves it and never wants to leave. She can't get over how friendly everyone is. Fingers crossed that she enjoys the actual work as much!!

Instagram tells me that DD was definitely clubbing last night. She can take or leave it as she's not much of a drinker and at home would usually offer to drive. We've had a couple of WhatsApp chats, but I'm sitting on my hands trying not to instigate them all the time, so today I will wait and see if I hear from her. I'm getting used to this new 'normal' DD2 was very quiet yesterday, it must be strange for the younger siblings.

@MrKlaw - I did see an induction timetable for DS on a webpage but can’t remember where. Maybe his dept. I will drop DS a text this morning and remind him to look online. He has definitely got sessions each day this week.

Dd has been FACE TIMING dd2

This is momentous as they were at each others throats most of the time before she left.

@Piggywaspushed I thought the same when I looked at DS's Blackboard last week. However, thinking about it, I'm pretty sure we had all info (booklet style) available from when we started. I remember because there were few copies of the definitive texts we needed to read (before everything was online) for seminars/tutorials etc. I used to do all my reading very early on in the term and then refresh from notes, so I could ensure I got hold of the relevant books giving myself away as a swot

Have told DS to let me know if there are any textbooks he definitely needs.

DS is an earlybird (sounds as if yours is too @Piggy), so he definitely won't be missing his first induction session this morning. Did warn him that there might be a scrum for the bathroom though.

Wasn't feeling entirely happy after his Skype call yesterday evening. He looked very tired and seemed to have spent the day on his own.

@ Framey, I think putting groups together is bad on the part of the accommodation team (unless they are all from different places and couldn't have been expected to know each other). It is easy to see how the outsiders will miss out. I knew that 2 of DS's friends would be at the same place but a much larger group seemed to have got in through clearing.

I will try and find out tonight whether DS actually went to his induction. I did remind him at drop-off that not getting to his enrolment session means no money.

I am a little concerned about his banking arrangements, too. He gave SFE his Nationwide account details and then (rather late, but prompted by them) applied for a student account with them. This was apparently approved but nothing has arrived in the post as promised. He hasn't closed his original account but I don't know whether Nationwide substitute the one for the other, and whether there is a different account number. He has promised to contact them today but this isn't something I can help with even if I wanted to.

Only been a day and a half but I expect comma to be minimal. I sent a message to let him know we got back safely and to remember to pick up a parcel from his auntie - nothing. DW sent a message saying we’d emailed over the railcard voucher and got back a ‘ok thanks’

simbibs my DS already had a Nationwide Account and it was just transferred into a Student Account, fairly straightforward (May have even kept the same number, can’t remember exactly.

My DS has his first lecture/workshop this morning, just introductory, fortunately one of his flat mates is on the same course so they can remind each other.

I must admit I am quite enjoying the peace and calm at home .

DS did phone yesterday which was sweet, we had been exchanging a couple of messages about things he had forgotten, I sent a quick text saying ‘have you got time to phone for a chat’ and he called immediately & had quite a long conversation and sounded happy.