Could you give her a gap year before she starts college?
Zoe: Uh huh. River, honey? He's putting the hair away now. River: It'll still be there... waiting.
'Jaynestown'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Jun 20, 2013 7:37:36 am PDT #26535 of 30001
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Aims - Jun 20, 2013 7:39:25 am PDT #26536 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Possibly.
Anyone want an Emeline for a gap year?
meara - Jun 20, 2013 7:40:56 am PDT #26537 of 30001
Aims, I know lots of folks (including me) who started college at 17. NBD until senior year--if everyone else is 21 and you're not its a PITA. 'Ostly for the super young folks who didn't turn 21 until after graduation! Oh, plus if you needed parental permission for stuff because you weren't 18 yet. That was awkward. But she could do a gap year if she needs/wants. (Hah, gap year x-post!)
Jessica - Jun 20, 2013 7:41:43 am PDT #26538 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Em will be 16 when she's a senior and she'll start college at 17.
This was me, I had a November birthday and was always the youngest in my class. I never felt like it was an issue.
flea - Jun 20, 2013 7:44:52 am PDT #26539 of 30001
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Casper is among the youngest in her class as well (she's gone to school in 3 states, with 3 different cutoff dates, but she's never been more than 6 weeks from the cutoff and in one state was 3 days from it), and I worried a ton about it when she was in 1st and 2nd grade and really struggling with reading. I still have some twinges, but she is quite successful socially and doing fine academically; you'd never pick her out as the youngest kid in her grade.
Dillo is a summer birthday too, which for boys often means redshirted, but schoolwork is easy for him and socially I think he'd be a little weird no matter how old the kids around him were. He was among the oldest in a mixed-age class this year and I was glad for it in theory, but as I said many of the other kids often seemed very young indeed!
Kate P. - Jun 20, 2013 7:47:20 am PDT #26540 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Yeah, same here with an October birthday, and it was never a big deal. OTOH, I fully support taking a gap year (I took mine after sophomore year but probably should have done it sooner). Best decision I made in/about college, really.
Calli - Jun 20, 2013 7:48:55 am PDT #26541 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Go, Dillo!
§ ita § - Jun 20, 2013 7:53:06 am PDT #26542 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In practice, I expect there'll be some older redshirts
Well, one thing about redshirts--they're usually not around for long.
If you're worried about being a 20 year old senior, go to school in Quebec.
So one row over is saying alcohol and cocaine contributed to Gandolfini's death. I don't have the energy to research.
Speaking of research, someone on IO9 mentioned that it was really easy to find the assaulty-book guy on LinkedIn, and also who he works for.
le nubian - Jun 20, 2013 7:55:01 am PDT #26543 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
well, he used to use cocaine. So, okay, that probably damaged his body.
But explain Keith Richards to me.
SuziQ - Jun 20, 2013 7:56:38 am PDT #26544 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
CJ started kinder when he was at the young end of the scale and ended up doing 2 years of kindergarten. Now he is on the older side but it has been good for him. I wish we had waited initially but not much I can do about that now.