Mushrooms, plenty this year!

Ugh!

The rains brought me another biggy. ^_^

This has been the year for them......

Is that one of your granddaughter's shoes???

No, mine. :)

That is one HUGE shroom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unless like Alice you drank some potion.

LOL Nope, no potions....shrooms are just big this year!
Those are my favorite shoes, boiled wool from L.L.Bean and i've had them for a few years now.

Some cute shrooms today(felt good to get out of the house)

another colony

Can't believe they are growing this time of year....

It's quite amazing to see mushrooms in January! I've got mushrooms on the brain. DD wrote her college application essay about picking mushrooms.

Sounds like an interesting topic! My family & I were talking just yesterday about our Dad picking mushrooms....none of us ate what he picked!

it was about going with her friend from Poland and their family to pick mushrooms. Just as well she didn't put being a multiple in the college's face, because her first choice gives extra aid if there are more than one kid in college at the same time.

My son needs to know this as he will have 3 in college at the same time....good thing that won't be for quite a while, as they are 6, 5, & 3 right now!

We're learning how different every college really is. Several are looking for diversity, so for them writing about being a triplet would be a good thing and that's what the other two did. There is a lot of positioning that comes from the college essay, though, and this daughter is aiming to study linguistics, so she was using humor in her Polish translations about mushrooms, which was where she found inspiration. The college is also very eco-oriented, so everything was aimed at her first choice college. This DH is extremely conscientious and takes no chances.

I hope they all get into their top choices....my son applied only to 2 colleges, never visited either, got into both, & decided on UCONN, so he could come home weekends to visit his chickie.....but UCONN was actually a good fit for him, because after discovering he hated biology, he went into the landscape architect program which he loved.....

And how good a fit was the chickie?? ^_^

I only applied to two also. Columbia and Manhattan. Accepted to both. Was unimpressed with Columbia. Went to Manhattan (for free). No regrets.

i applied to one, northeastern, and got in :)

I only applied to one also...Central CT, because I wanted to teach & that was the best in the state at the time for teacher training....did my master's at Wesleyan, though, because I wanted a broader education....Chickie was not for him, she continually dumped him until he finally wised up....she was a very pretty girl, but tres manipulative!

I applied to 3 was accepted to 2(both with partial scholarships) then ended up not going, worked my way up in JCP

Thanks for sharing. What is JCP, Jen?

Clearly this is an educated bunch here.

I'm a product of University of Illinois, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts gave legal certifications that the youngsters have to get post-docs to do if they're starting out now. I know most of these schools somewhat. My DS applied to Northeastern as one of his colleges, but he's never been to see it. One DD is applying to Wesleyan in Connecticut. The other DD isn't saying if boyfriends have any influence on choices mostly in Northeast.. DS wants mechanical engineering, DD 1 wants linguistics and Spanish education but maybe interpreter services, and DD2 wants biology and classics, maybe premed. Altogether they will have applied to about 33 colleges because these days you have to do about 10. The one early decision II is for Middlebury in Vt. for Spanish. Whew! Thanks for the good wishes.

Seems to be more involved now than when I was at that point. I never even visited Manhattan, had no interview, etc.

Yep, I resisted this at first until I realized how different it all is now. I only applied to one college myself. College Board must be making a mega-fortune on the college profiles, if not already for the SAT.

What are application fees running these days?

What is the cost to take the SAT's??

My answer just failed. Seems SAT cost around $45 to take, sending it costs $10 per school unless you expedite for $40. Two colleges on our list had free application fees, but otherwise cost is between $50 and $70 per college. CSS profile per school costs $16 and FAFSA was under ten dollars per school. After spending this, we ought to qualify for more financial aid!

You have to pay to take the SATs????


JCP=JCPenney

Yep. And nowadays kids are taking it multiple times. They almost have to so they get the idea of how the essay is scored. Moreover, many colleges will score only your highest score on a subtest so there is no downside to submitting many testings. I also didn't mention the AP tests and the SAT subject tests, which in Massachusetts can win extra scholarhip money for the state's expensive public colleges. Other families (not us) hired SAT coaches too. This is high stakes testing. Many really fine liberal arts colleges have made it optional to submit. I think Bowdin College took the lead there because this kind of activity is counterproductive if you really care about a well-rounded liberal arts education.

rosemary if dd1 wants linguistics i would strongly suggest mandarin, cantonese or both - there are lots of spanish speakers out there

I agree about Chinese. Pig-Latin is good too.

Yeah Bill, she knows but thinks it's too late. She's not particular, so Arabic would have been OK too. Back when choosing a language in hs, she didn't know she was that good at producing correct sounds or hearing dialects. Now she's testing better than native speakers in Spanish, but it's only a recent discovery. Mandarin classes at the high school were almost entirely made up of native speakers, or at least kids who had it spoken at home. Then she was locked in by the liberal arts requirement of the same language for at least three years of hs. . She's studied Italian for four years too but thinks Spanish will be more practical.

She's terrible at the really good dialects like pig latin, or alfalfa for another. :-)

went from no rain at all to this already

Oh my, early start!

no wonder my allergies are totally freaking out.. anytime I see shrooms .. I know it's bad.. mold always gets me along with the grasses, trees, etc

Considering Maine is over 75% tree's....this is not good!! LOL

and add in furbabies!!!... going to die!!!

LOL

Yes, and Cyrus is one big white mop. LOL

oh you know I am going to play with him... can't help myself

^_^