One day I’m folding laundry and Mooch walks into the room and says “Mom, I’ve made the decision to transfer schools”. Stunned, I replied “what the hell are you talking about?” He was midway through his Sophomore year of college and truth be told, wasn’t doing that well. His grades were average, he was focused more on having fun than his studies – clearly not in a position to be transfering schools. “Where is this coming from”? I needed to know what he was basing his decision on and how he planned to accomplish it. “I’m sick of the weather up here. It’s too cold in the winter. A bunch of my friends and I were thinking about going to school in Arizona”. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. He wanted to transfer schools because he didn’t like the weather in DC. I told him he needed to think this through. Out of State tuition is frankly, out of our family’s budget and it sounded like he wanted to party it up in Arizona with his friends more than anything else. I explained the infinite reasons why this was a stupid idea and he defiantly shot back “my decision’s final! I’ve done the research and even completed the application online and believe it or not, it’s cheaper than Instate University (totally not the real name of his school)”. “Mooch, what the hell are you talking about? How is that even possible? What school did you apply to?” To which he replied “University of Phoenix”. After I stopped laughing, I asked him how he heard about that school (an ad on Facebook) and whether he knew it wasn’t really in Arizona. This kid was practically packed and ready to move to an online college.
So much for doing the research.
Yep, now you can suggest he brush up on his research skills
I remember my heart being broken because my parents wouldn’t send me to one of the Fashion schools I saw in the ads in the back pages of Seventeen magazine….