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Move in days across the country are fast approaching. May how things have changed since my move-in day. A lot of things are similar: over packed cars, posters, anxious students, grateful and nervous parents, and enough toiletries to stock most Target shelves three times over. Some things have changed appearance and capabilities, cell phones have replaced wall phones, plasmas have replaced the dinosaur TV (I remember when 19 inches was a big screen!), PDAs have made day planners unnecessary. And now you can call, watch and day plan on one machine!

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Been slightly delinquent with updates, the lost sleep our new family edition is destroying brain cells and I am still catching up from my time away from work.

Hopefully all college bound high school seniors have already visited their top choice school this spring or earlier. However, many students have not and there are too many places to visit even for the most ambitious of families. Summertime is a great time for rising seniors to visit those colleges that they aren’t sure about and rising juniors to get a start on their college search.

Here are two very good articles that I recommend EVERY family read before they take off on that college tour of 10 colleges in 5 days – which I DON’T recommend. Best advice- have fun, plan and call ahead, take notes, compromise and smile!!!!!!

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07156/791473-298.stm

http://www.newsday.com/travel/am-kids0713,0,252771,print.story?coll=ny-travel-headlines

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Tell me another college or university where the vice president of enrollment makes cotton-candy at an open house. Sunday was our summer open house, always a fun day, little too humid, but overall a lot fun. How can you not have fun when snow cones, cotton-candy and popcorn are being served.

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