So Excited!!!! SS Finally Registered For Higher Education!
After a little over a year of SS languishing around post high school...trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life...SS19 has applied for a 2-year technical degree at a very, very good school about 3 hours from us. An incredible program.
It's an entry-level film program. We live super close to Atlanta, and since we're in the arts / production as well, we have tons of contacts in the region. SS made the mistake of thinking our contacts would be enough to get him started...even though we've told him many times that he needs a little bit of training and a lot more initiative if he's going to make it anywhere in this business.
He's always been awful at school - but really bright and social in every other way. I think this is perfect for him - and the program will place him in an internship each summer as well. I first learned of the program because we've hired recent graduates before and they were always really well trained, sharp...on the ball. So I looked into it.
Of course, it's a little maddening, because I suggested this program to SS, and to his mom, back when he was 17 and getting ready to graduate in a year and the idea got poo-pooed. I don't even care though...maybe he just needed that year of a crappy retail job to realize for himself that he needs the training...
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As many annoying things as I
As many annoying things as I can say about my skids...they've always worked when they were able. I think it's the combo of working a crappy job AND not being in school...watching all or most of your friends go off to college or into some kind of program. I know he's been feeling really stuck.
Now to help OSD get to her school of choice (she's done 1.5 years of basic credits at a good community college program and wants to go one state away for a 4 year liberal arts degree) and to get YSD motivated to apply / take the SAT & ACT during her senior year.
These kids have all been relatively late bloomers on everything...I really don't mind taking a couple extra years to figure it out...as long as there's some kind of plan.
This SS registration came out of the blue. He just texted us this morning to let us know...
And - now it looks like: 1.)
And - now it looks like:
1.) SS scheduled a campus / program tour which is Monday morning at 9 am.
2.) Has already figured out that the place he works has a location 4 miles from campus and has put in a request for a transfer in August.
3.) Has scheduled a lunch meeting with a mentor in this town who has offered SS an internship in the past...also on Monday.
DH just came to me all apologetic for the late notice asking if he can go with SS Sunday night and do the tour stuff. Go, go, go! I don't know where all this initiative suddenly came from...but Hallelujah!
That's wonderful! I like to
That's wonderful! I like to think that your suggestion when he was 17 planted the idea in his head and it just took awhile to take root. Some kids are late bloomers- I've had much frustration with my own DS26 who did complete a 4 year degree and did nothing with it. Also didn't work consistently when he was younger. I really don't like to meddle (probably could have put my foot down a little more) but finally suggested a restaurant job as his main love is cooking - then took him to visit a new culinary certificate program. Said NOTHING about it afterward, just let him decide. Well out of the blue 6 months later he went and enrolled, paid for it all himself and finished the program. He has been a cook at the same place for about 3 years now and is now applying for something more full-time.
I think this is it. They have
I think this is it. They have to feel like it's their own idea.
He's asked my DH to go with him for the campus tour & they're leaving tomorrow afternoon so they can be there for the 9 am visit. DH is over the moon...best Father's Day present he could have given him.
My brother did the same thing, sort of. He was a math genius but absolutely hated high school and didn't do well. Didn't apply to any colleges...spent a year post high school working at a sub shop, hanging with his friends, and playing video games...waking up at noon, etc. He had a lot more going on, actually...my dad was really sick and I think my brother was both depressed and afraid to leave my mom and little sisters to go to school. He did take a few classes at a local community college that year (like two classes in one semester, none the next). I found out later that he was dressing for class each day, then driving to a parking lot and sleeping all day instead of going to class...only found out because he needed my help to get the grades expunged from his record for medical reasons...
Anyway...man. Went off on a rabbit trail. The point is, my mom begged and pleaded with him for a year to go do something with his talent and he had no interest. Then, one morning, he woke up early, came downstairs in a sports jacket and tie and said...I'm going to go register for classes today. My mom was like - you have to apply to college first. He said...I'll figure it out. Then he drove to a good school for math that's about an hour from our house and came back a registered, matriculating student...with classes starting the next week. Have no idea what he said to admissions or how he pulled that off...but he killed it in college after getting C's and D's all through high school...