Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast for the week of May twenty twenty three.
I'm a choleric, so I'm here with Catherine hell Echo Hello and Terry Morrow.
Hello. Every week we chat about what parents were talking and complaining and
obsessing about right now. This week we're complaining about mean girls and obsessing about
mementos of our kids' lives. We also take a couple of breaks for an
entertainment discussion and a recommendation round up. Today we are talking about memorable college
moments. So there was an article on Grown and Flown that listed ten moments
from college that I want to relive, according to the author, And so
it got me thinking, what college moments would you want to relive? And
Terry, I don't know if you've noticed, but this the author went to
you see Santa Barbara, Oh my goodness. So she talked about having picnics
and watching the sunset over the ocean. You know what I removed about the
ocean ucsp As if you went anywhere near it, you got tar on your
feet and then you had to go someplace and like take it off with gasoline.
So what I was not so much about going to the beach. There
was tar on the day tar there was there was like oil in the water,
and so if you went in the water, or if you walked on
the sand where the water had been, just big pieces of like tar would
stick to you. Really kind of that kind of blew the mood, you
know. Yeah. One of the items on this list says first day of
classes freshman year. Um, no, I would never want to relive that,
you think up from college? Just things I never want to relive,
right, you know, the worst time, throwing up at a college drinking
party. Really ill advised trip to Europe. No, I don't think I
don't want to do that again. You would that advised about that trip.
It was just you know, it's like a couple of weeks would have been
great, but we like did two months and we had the urail passes and
we stayed at the hostels and it just like part way through it was just
like too much. But you still had to keep going right, right,
right, So you just we were we bent off way more than we could
chew. And I also I had this backpack. I started out with like
a like a day pack sized pack because we were in travel light and then
I kept buying things and wanting to keep them, and so one of the
things I had to buy was a huge backpack, and then I kept falling.
So I had these stupid Familari shoes that were just being good for your
feet, and I would just roll forward and smack down on the ground because
I had this huge thing on it back. So it's just like, I
guess if I went back and did it again, I would do it smarter,
maybe like wait another five years, it might be good. So you
had money to travel style to things that I cannot quite handle, So that's
fun. I don't know. I enjoyed college. I had good years of
college, but there's not that much I would like to go back and revisit.
I don't know. You guys have have warm college memories. So warm
college memories, yeah, I mean the you know, just some of there
were some memorable like outings and not even necessarily parties, but like just stuff
we did together as a big group. You know that I still remember and
that we're really fun. So I would go back and do that. And
one of the things on this list is like the first sports game of the
season, you know, that's always fun. I don't think I went to
any sports things. Yeah, I mean it depends on the school. I
guess. I think our frisbee team probably was working out someplace and I just
missed it. I mean, our school wasn't necessarily that great at sports,
but there were some there were some funny, you know, traditions. Yeah,
but it's fun to be a part of. Right, I didn't even
know my school had sports. Now my CUCSB doing well in sports, so
I maybe just was not hooked up to it. Right. But the place
where the school that my son is going to go to, they have,
um, like this big rock on campus, you know, and I feel
like a lot of places do and people paint it for yeah, with their
club or their fraternity or whatever. But when you're a freshman, you sign
your name on it and they have all the freshman like, go to the
rock my name, and then when you're senior you do it again. I
guess. So that's kind of fun stuff like that, you know. Yeah,
that's kind of a neat experience. I enjoyed my first year in the
dorms. I don't know if that's like, um, yeah, that was
kind of that was fun. I mean at first, it was kind of
hard. To get established. But once I did, it was we had
a lot of fun in the dorms. Um what else. I just loved
being in the city because it was in the university, was in the city,
like right in not downtown but near downtown, and in the country,
yes, and so it was really fun to be in the city and explore
and to have the freedom because I also had my car with me, so
then we would drive around and explore the city and go out and yeah,
a lot of fun. And then the second year, now husband who was
then my boyfriend, he was also at a school going to school nearby,
so he had a lot of good times, you know, moving out together
and going places. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. I don't know
that I wouldn't necessarily want to go back to my years year in the dorms.
I was only in for one year and then I was in apartments after
that with roommates, are by myself. But I do remember the donuts at
the dining hall that i've breakfast every morning. I can't find that kind of
donut. It was just like a simple cake donut with chocolate frosting. It
should be very basic, and I don't see them anymore, and they were
so good and they were so bad for me. But you know what,
nobody could tell me when to eat for breakfast's right, right. And I
also had a couple of professors I could think of in particular who made me
feel smart and talented, and I'd go back and have that feeling again.
That was pretty nice. Oh yeah, So I don't remember any of my
professors except for my French teacher well, who came to class with something green
in a mason jar and he drank it and that was it. We had
a French I had a French teacher who would like trick people into saying bad
words in French and then make fun of them. You know something where if
you pronounce it one way, it's fine, if you pronounce it an other
way, it's a curse word. And you know, he would make fun
of them. So that was not nice. That's real mature catch. But
there's these two. I can think of the one I remember the delight of
the one professor when I actually memorized the rhyme of the ancient mariner, tried
to write it all in a blue book. That was fun. And then
this College of Creative Studies, I was in. Marvin Mudrick was the founder
of it, and I had classes with him in writing and he really made
me feel like I could write, so that was special. And I also
was a campus ministry intern for a church in the little student slum outside of
the campus that was me slum. I think that's the accepted description for what
I love ISTA is. I think that pretty much sums it up. I
don't think that's controversial. I've never heard of. Maybe that's what Kinko's got
its start, like the original first Kinks. Yeah, yep, really yeah,
yeah, my time. By the time I was there, there was
two copy machine copy companies in town. Item but it's like two two rivals,
two rivals. Yes, and your professor would like, say, go
to this one and go get a copy of all my notes. Oh but
yeah, wow started there. H Wow, there's a business that has coming
and gone. Oh my gosh, Kinko's. I forgot about that. Yeah,
I was even in Bank Hoover. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we
went to Kinkos. Wow, they've been absorbed by FedEx. But yes,
well, anybody else have any any high points of college they would like to
revisit that time you dreamed that maybe one day you would be a podcaster.
A special moment that vision. You went to a fortune teller and they said,
I see you sitting in front of a mic late at night. Oh.
I got engaged in my fifth year. Wow, you go, hmmm,
that's your college. I got engaged. I had a boyfriend for like,
you know, the basically the whole four years of college, and um,
we you know, I decided to break up with him towards the towards
the very end, and um, he said, you know, how about
if we just stay together until we graduate and then so we can just like
do all the end of year you know stuff, and then we'll break up.
It's like, yeah, that sounds good, you can do that,
and so we did. It was a passionate sort of relationship there at the
end, I have this business contract we will agree to stay together until he
was under contractual obligation. I wasn't obligated. It was just like, you
know, we could just do this, yeah really, And you weren't like,
no, I'm gonna go and have fun with my friends and on my
own. Well we had all the same friends because we've been together since freshman
year. Oh okay, So that was that was kind of part of it,
Like, right, let's not like make everyone have to choose between us.
Well just then after that, yeah, you just like buy and parted
ways. Yeah, pretty much. So a pleasant college memory. Catherine would
let nothing not like to go back and live. I mean it's fine.
It was very sensible, very sensible. Well, now he like is a
high level person that helps run medicare, so wow, he's could you put
a good word for him? And I'm coming up on it so you can
see that he is a very practical person. Wow, it's so sad because
practical is a good thing to be, and yet when you say it about
somebody who's like in college, it just seems like, oh, how sad.
Sad. Well, it's practical for us to say that. That's it
for today's Round one. Tune in tomorrow for our entertainment themed Round two and
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