The oldest heads off to college this fall.
From every other parent, the advice is as follows:
Load up the commissary card, they will drink more coffee than one can imagine.
If you are sending an emergency bag, carry on size is it. Limited time and space in the dorms, and the ever present threat of theft.
Pre-loaded cash cards and such to pay for airfare home.
Membership in the campus “camping club” not just to justify that loaded backpack but to keep everything in practice and have some fun outside of class.
I would like to send my eldest off with 100 pounds of gear and more. Not gonna happen for a number of reasons, some mentioned.
Hard hearted? Unrealistic? No, all too realistic. Having friends that are campus cops, who have or have had kids in school, most of the threats to students are either trivial (petty theft), personal (date rape) and the unrealistic (EMP, etc).
The biggest threat our kids face are the teachers, with their liberal agenda. Teaching a doctrine rather than facts.
I hear monthly shipments of Ramen and such are surprisingly popular. YMMV.
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Whirlibird.