Monday, September 21, 2015

First Appliction Is Done

Sarah got her first college application officially sent yesterday.  She is now "on the clock" at UW-LaCrosse.  There are a couple of minor things she needs to do yet, such as send her teacher recommendations, but for the most part her application is in process.  So that leaves three applications left to do.  She is actually working on one of her essays in one of her classes right now.  So I hope that means that we'll have another application ready to send soon.  That one is the application for Madison.  But Madison is the #3 choice.  Marquette is her #2 pick.  At least that was the list about a month ago.  We should hear back from LaCrosse by the end of October, but until then I told Sarah that she needs to get her other ones done and sent.  The good thing is that all the UW schools use the same application, the only difference would be the essay questions.  So it shouldn't take much more time to get the other ones out.

 

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Last First Day

Today is Sarah's last first day of school, at least prior to starting college.  She is going to go thru a lot of lasts this year, and this is just the first.  Unfortunately I wasn't around to take pictures this morning, and really I don't think she wanted me around.  I took a couple of Alison before taking her to school since she had to be there early this year.  As an 8th grader, she is a WEB leader, which means she helps show the new, 6th graders around prior to the rest of the school getting there today.


Sarah is also Link Leader (same thing for freshmen at the high school as I understand it), so she had to be there a little early too.  Luckily our next door neighbor took a picture of her for me.




And I know I posted this a year or two ago, I think it might have been on her first day of high school, but it is good to see how much she has grown in the past 13 years (at least the stoop railings look better).  



And just so I can't be accused of playing favorites, I guess I have to put up Alison's very first day of school.  Look for it again in four years.