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.
Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.
'Touched'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
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
flea - Jun 20, 2013 7:44:52 am PDT #26539 of 30001
information libertarian
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.
Trudy Booth - Jun 20, 2013 8:02:12 am PDT #26545 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Is this a good deal? Can I do better someplace else? Does furniture from Pottery Barn have a rep?
All I know for sure is that I've coveted those chairs for. ev. ah.
Matt, could you hook me up with those links too?
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I was a youngest-in-class kid. It's hard to say if I'd have been better off socially (I was fine academically) if we'd waited since going to five schools in five years did a number on me socially. It might have helped.
OTOH, I was going absolutely bug-fuck bonks being at home and reaaaaallllly wanted to start school so keeping me at home would have been a little insane.
Either way I'd have sucked at sports.
brenda m - Jun 20, 2013 8:03:48 am PDT #26546 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Aims, I know lots of folks (including me) who started college at 17.
I personally could have benefitted from a year off doing something before diving into uni.
NBD until senior year--if everyone else is 21 and you're not its a PITA.
As ita ! says, you can avoid this by CANADA. And also save about a gazillion dollars if current state holds.
Sue - Jun 20, 2013 8:14:35 am PDT #26547 of 30001
hip deep in pie
NBD until senior year--if everyone else is 21 and you're not its a PITA.
As ita ! says, you can avoid this by CANADA. And also save about a gazillion dollars if current state holds.
It's no fun being the only one who can't drink in first year either. Well, drinking wasn't the problem, getting into bars was.