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I get up at 5am, shower, dress and finishing packing the car
for the two hour college road trip.
We get to the place my daughter says is where orientation is
going to be held. Nobody's there. It was the Animal Sciences
Building. (That should've been my first clue that something wasn't right). Then I see a lady walking towards the
building. I ask her if she knows
anything about student orientation. She
did not. (That certainly was a clue. How could a University employee not know what was going on?)
My daughter, who went into the Animal Science building,
comes out and says student orientation and freshman move-in was CHANGED to
Thursday, August 14.
OK so how come we weren't notified? I drive to the Admissions office, desperately
seeking someone to give me some answers.
The building is wide open but no one is inside.
Just as I was getting back in the car, a man drove up. He identified himself as the Chief of Staff
to the Chancellor. I told him I was not
a happy parent since I drove all the way up there for an orientation that
wasn't taking place.
He said all parents and students were supposed to have been
notified of the change. Well, it seems as if everyone else got the memo but my daughter and me---
OH BUT WAIT A MINUTE---she did get notified we learned upon
our return home. It was an UNOPENED email dated Friday, August 8!
OH BUT WAIT A MINUTE---there was also a scroll going across
the website when I went to check into it.
So we'll be doing the same thing all over again tomorrow but
at least this time, the car is already packed!
Have we, as parents, allowed our children to become so dependent on us, that they would be clueless without us?
