Kids stuck at uni

[Stressie]

Anyone else with children still at uni? Didn’t pick ours up as self isolating but now regretting after Boris statement tonight. What are your plans?

Go and get them tomorrow

Mine is still up finishing a piece of coursework with a Thursday deadline but I can't see any reason not to drive and collect him when that's done even if public transport isn't a great idea.

Mine is still there cos we have been isolating

My daughter is on her industrial placement year. She has phoned in tears. There are only 4 of them left working on site as everyone else is working from home. She is not enjoying it as in a lab on her own most of the time. She then goes back to a shared house and spends the evening in her room. The announcement tonight just finished her off. It's a lot to take in. All her uni friends have gone home. If she had to self isolate I would go and bring her home even if it's a risk to us.

Picking both up today tomorrow. One DS, who is a post grad, is feeling guilty as it means just one housemate from S Asia is left, on his own. The plan was to come home for Easter in the usual way, as he thinks he’s had the virus so has self isolated already.

Mine is staying in the house with his other mates. One can't get home as lives abroad so they are staying to keep him company.
They can get food etc as we can. They will probably be less bored together than rattling round at home.

Thanks all. It’s good to know I’m not the only one. Probably going to go and collect.

That's a lovely way of looking at it, Fuzzymoon. Our DS2 is an exchange student at the University of Adelaide and he says 5 of his flatmates have stayed because like him they couldn't guarantee their connecting flights to their home countries wouldn't get cancelled. Once they leave Australia they have been told they can't go back so they risked being stranded in a strange place.
At least they can give each other moral support.

DD2 currently stuck in Sheffield. Thankfully with her fiance.

My daughter is thinking 4 of us stuck at home for weeks, with my husband and I working from home, sounds a nightmare. She’s staying firm at uni in house on her own. Son doesn’t care if stays at uni or comes home. Happy that they’re independent and don’t mind their own company but half wanting them to want to rush home!

Dd is staying in uni town. One flatmate is from Asia so can't go home and one other has also decided to stay. All have exams and feel they study better there than at home. Also her bf is still there completing his final year project and preparing for exams. Like Stressie am happy she's settled but a little sad she doesn't want to rush home

That's a lovely way of looking at it, Fuzzymoon.

Same here @Fuzzymoon. Both DC at different I is doing that with their friends. Makes sense since the rent has to paid if they are there or not. Better to be isolated with friends than with parents. If they get ill I will break the rules and drive and fetch them then.

I have one abroad on Erasmus and he's chosen to stay put. With friends in house, strong healthcare system ... I think it's more fun for him than being home and it is very easy to keep in touch daily.

Mine is staying put at the moment, he's doing a phd so can still do some work from his flat - he's not actually that far away but is in a flat with 2 housemates which is probably more interesting than being with us. He's got to pay the rent regardless and I think he's hoping that the uni libraries may reopen before the end of his tenancy, we will reassess fetching him when and if things change. Tbh it works well - he's in a city so near to supermarkets and I don't have to treble my shopping to feed him like I would if he was here