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Doesn’t have it much narrowed down beyond B-school. It come down to UAB and Bama, and he went with the better financial package. I don’t see any way he would have thrived in Tuscaloosa though, and truthfully I wonder if UAB won’t prove overwhelming. I encouraged him to look at UAH or even Montevallo.

 

Truth be told, most young'uns would be better off starting at community college, knocking out the core curriculum on the cheap and avoiding frat/sorority rush and the like. Some do well, and some get very distracted.

My first semester I basically drank beer, chased girls, and cut class. I'd have been much better off going that route. The wisdom of age...

 

I think my daughter benefited from having her freshman year in the pandemic. Distractions were low, and the online factor made it easier for her to manage her time.

Now she's got a year under her belt, some awards and more academic confidence than I ever had.

 

That's great. Now I hope she never wins another award or gets another bit of academic confidence that way again. This cohort of high school and college kids has suffered way beyond enough.
A minimum of six consecutive cohorts will have one or more years impacted by the Trumpandemic.

 

She lost a lot in her senior hear of high school, especially in sports, and the whole freshman experience. I must say the kids have done a great job of not dwelling on it.

 

Mine is practically a sophomore already thanks to dual enrollment classes from high school.

I don’t want him taking the route his old man did and completely abandoning academics to socialize. But he needs the connection and interaction. His mother and I were both pretty adamant that he get a dorm room instead of commuting to school, because he needs to make some connections.

 

As someone who went to HS about 20 minutes from his college, I co-sign for you. A couple of our friends from HS did the commuting thing, and they always ended up on the outskirts of the group when things were happening. And it seems odd, but because we had our group of friends at college, it was usually easier for us to assimilate others in.

 

As you probably know, UAB was almost totally (or at least largely) a commuter school for the first 25 of it's 50 years in existence. You wouldn't know it now, looking at all the various dorms and green space and amenities, it has become a much more traditional college experience given that it is a downtown urban school. For you guys not from 'round heah, UAB has come to be known locally as the "University that Ate Birmingham", as the campus now covers about 100 blocks of the south side of B'ham's downtown area.

I know that they really push for freshmen to do at least a year in a dorm anymore. I suppose partly for the reasons you express plus forcing them to become familiar with more of the campus than the route to their classes and partly to get them attached to UAB in the future as grads.

 

Hope she left on her terms.

I know we gotta pay attention to ESPN because it still has so many live sports. But it's so far from what it was 20 years ago, I wonder why so much attention is heaped on it.

 

I was hoping the same thing, Alma. I really hope this is Jackie Mac's shot to call ... but knowing what we continue to learn about the WWL, I'm not yet convinced this is the case.

Will be glad to be wrong here ...