I think we’ll continue on her current 20-25 hours/week working.
Next year, she is highly motivated to apply for tons of scholarships. I didn’t want to push her on that this year as she was a month or two into living here and approaching the start of school.
Next year, she realizes her time could be valued at more like $30 or $80/hour by filling out scholarship rather than working for $16.
I expect they’ll finish in 2 years. It’s not a requirement we’ve placed on them. They already got an A+ and an A- on her first half of this semester. Her school is weird and does two half-semesters per semester, with 2 classes in each half.
I impressed on my kids that the scholarships they earned were/are worth quite a bit of an hourly wage. Working part time for $ and losing the scholarship if grades suffered would be a big net loss. Fortunately no one lost the scholarships they were awarded.
I’ve seen ones where they have three 5 week sessions in a 15 week semester.
This is apparently popular for part time programs. If students need to take a chunk off for whatever reason it doesn’t have to kill their whole term and it allows them to hyper focus on one or two classes at a time.
Like say you were an actuarial student and you wanted time off around your exam… you could not schedule anything for the five-week period including your exam (schedule the exam towards the end of the five weeks) and still be taking classes the other two thirds of the semester.
I don’t know if it’s good or bad… it’s certainly different from what I’m used to.
Goddaughter ended the relationship with Therapy Jesus recently after a session where he tried to convince her that evolution wasn’t real.
He was asking about her college courses and she mentioned her recent lessons on environmental sustainability and discussed learning about natural selection, and he said, “You know, I read a book called ‘The Case Against Evolution’…” and tried to discuss how microevolution is real but macroevolution is a myth.
She’s with a proper therapist now. She came back from her first session and said “She’s the best, she’s so relatable and it feels great to feel seen/heard!”
Both of my kids seem to be opting for the 8 week courses. The elder bc that’s just what worked out for her this semester. The younger will do this next semester & take off the last 8 weeks as she is pregnant and will be close to delivery then.
Things have been reasonably quiet on my front, but a couple things in progress.
m has a conference in Las Vegas next month. It’s related to their degree, it’s career connections and such, so it has a real purpose. We were under the impression that school was willing to pay for much of the expense for the trip - hotel, food, other incidentals. (One of the other bonus parents has a zillion Southwest miles, so airfare is free.) No, school is only providing $250. And, that won’t be provided until perhaps March. Not like they don’t have the money to cover stuff, but it’s Las Vegas and even though they were there last summer, all of those logistics were taken care of; this will be more “figure it out yourself.” So, I’m going to go out and be there while they’re there. That helps with figuring out questions that will arise by being in-person vs. having to figure it out from 2,000 miles away, plus putting an actual credit card down vs. they only have a debit card and if something happens with it, what money they have gets completely locked up.
M, I’m working on their 2nd credit card getting cleared. I’ll hopefully get that written up this week and sent out. Also working on a medical bill from February 2003 that went to collections, which we found out about at the end of September. After a couple calls with the debt collector, I got a “statement” that … looks suspicious, for a number of reasons. So, I’m waiting to see what (if any) additional information comes back (expectation: nothing) while starting a complaint with the state of Kentucky, pointing out all the inconsistencies in the information provided + the lack of information provided on other stuff.
Wow, is there really not an update since? I … guess that’s good? Or, we’re slipping. I’m taking it as a good sign.
Which …
In the saga of trying to clear the final credit card from [financial institution]: this morning’s mail brings a 4th letter saying “lol, account is still valid.” Except, this one references the “investigation” done in February of last year and says “if you have additional information to provide, send it and we’ll ignore it completely consider it.”
This comes after
A call in October saying “hey, this account is completely fraud, M’s mom opened it online without M’s consent, I will send info documenting such” which was followed by me faxing basically the same information I sent for m, and 3 weeks later getting “lol, account is still valid because it was opened online with M’s information”
A call in November to get information on why the dispute was rejected, which revealed someone had logged my claim as “they’re disputing charges but didn’t provide other info” and so opened a 2nd dispute that the entire account was fraud and referencing the information previously sent, and 3 weeks later getting “lol, account is still valid because it was opened online with M’s information”
A call in December to get information on why the dispute was rejected, which revealed someone had logged my claim as “they’re disputing the balance but didn’t provide other info” and suddenly no one could find the previous information … and so this opens a 3rd dispute that the entire account was fraud, plus me re-faxing the information + sending via certified mail the same information … and 2 weeks later getting “lol, account is still valid because it was opened online with M’s information”
A call on the 2nd to … which revealed it still wasn’t logged as “establishment of the account was fraudulent” and now a 4th dispute, which I was assured was entered correctly … which was closed with today’s letter.
And so, there’s now a 5TH dispute, which … well, take guesses on how I expect this to play out.
And, that won’t be provided until perhaps March. 
Not like they don’t have the money to cover stuff, but it’s Las Vegas and even though they were there last summer, all of those logistics were taken care of; this will be more “figure it out yourself.” So, I’m going to go out and be there while they’re there. That helps with figuring out questions that will arise by being in-person vs. having to figure it out from 2,000 miles away, plus putting an actual credit card down vs. they only have a debit card and if something happens with it, what money they have gets completely locked up.