Thirty Things I Learned During my Daughter's Years in College
On the occasion of my daughter’s graduation from college, I began thinking about all that I had learned while she was a college student. Here is a list of the top thirty. My college degree never prepared me for any of this.
1. How to text
2. How to tweet
3. How to Google chat
4. How to Facebook chat
5. How to look at Facebook pictures
6. How to ignore Facebook pictures
7. How to transfer money through online banking
8. How to check a credit card statement every day
9. How to ignore a credit card statement most of the time
10. By far the best way to get from LA to Boston is on Jet Blue
11. What a “big” and “little” are (sorority stuff)
12. That social media is so important it’s taught as an upper division course
13. The higher the heel, the better
14. The shorter the skirt, the better
15. The longer the hair, the better
16. How to let go of your child when she leaves for college
17. How to welcome your child back home and attempt to treat her like an adult
18. How to let go of your child again – I mean your adult
19. How clean a house can be
20. How expensive it is to go to college in a city
21. How expensive it is to go to college
22. How expensive it is, all of it
23. How enriching and exciting a semester abroad can be (see #22)
24. How to be the mother of an adult
25. How much adults still need their mothers
26. How fast it all goes
27. How much fun it’s all been
28. How much there is to look forward to
29. How great it is to reminisce
30. How much I love my daughter