Ma Vie Folle » Raising College Kids http://www.maviefolle.com/wp1 A blog about everything. A blog about nothing at all. My life. My blog. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:24:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Just when you think your kid is safe. http://www.maviefolle.com/wp1/2011/11/just-when-you/ http://www.maviefolle.com/wp1/2011/11/just-when-you/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:31:41 +0000 sheila http://www.maviefolle.com/wp1/?p=10761 Continue reading →]]> I knew when I sent my daughter off to college she’d be having a ton of new experiences… some which I would approve of, and some not.  But she called me the other day with the news that the night before… a man was arrested on the 8th floor of her residence hall.  I say “man” because he wasn’t a student.  He was LIVING on the top floor of the residence hall.  IN a single room.  I’m told he’s been living there a week or so.

WTH?  Are you kidding me right now?

After she called me I went online and found only one article about it.  Nothing on the local news for that town, nothing in the local newspaper.  Only one piddly article in the University paper.  In fact, as another parent noted, there is more information provided by an anonymous commenter than in the article itself.    It SEEMS that the dude is 25  (yes that’s TWENTY FIVE years old!) Illegally posing as a student and illegally living in the residence hall packed with FRESHMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SAY WHAT?  No letter to parents… No letter to the students in the hall with details of anything.  WOW.

Apparently this guy had been mooching food from paying students and living for free among 18 year old kids.  Ughhh.  When I think of all the bad things that could have happened it makes me FURIOUS!  I know when we visited there the security was tight.  You couldn’t get in or out without a signing in.  In fact, all these colleges make such a major point to play up how secure their buildings are.   Yet this nut was able to not only get into the building but frickin LIVE IN IT?  The whole thing is just crazy!

*Update!  I talked to the school and it turns out the kids in the hall “felt sorry” for this guy and LET HIM IN, KNOWING he wasn’t a student!  OMG.  Thankfully the University turned this into a great teaching moment because it certainly could have ended up much worse.

]]> http://www.maviefolle.com/wp1/2011/11/just-when-you/feed/ 7 “C is for Cookie” and “Crap, we’re stuck in an elevator” http://www.maviefolle.com/wp1/2011/10/c-is-for-cookie-and-crap-were-stuck-in-an-elevator/ http://www.maviefolle.com/wp1/2011/10/c-is-for-cookie-and-crap-were-stuck-in-an-elevator/#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:59:54 +0000 sheila http://www.maviefolle.com/wp1/?p=10740 Continue reading →]]> Catching up with my daughter away at college:


Of course I inquired as to whether or not she captured anything on film…

Halloween week at college.  A Sesame Street Character, Two Britney’s and a nerd…
stuck for 20 minutes in an elevator at 2:30am.  Poor firemen.

]]> http://www.maviefolle.com/wp1/2011/10/c-is-for-cookie-and-crap-were-stuck-in-an-elevator/feed/ 13 Conversations from College. http://www.maviefolle.com/wp1/2011/09/conversations-from-college-2/ http://www.maviefolle.com/wp1/2011/09/conversations-from-college-2/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:44:49 +0000 sheila http://www.maviefolle.com/wp1/?p=10687 Continue reading →]]> So Middle Child is away at college.  We communicate a lot through text messaging.

 

From Middle Child.  Since she was a toddler, she had daily stomach aches.  She had a little one when she sent this.

 

 

 

 

My response.

(ghost= long story, lol)

 

 

 

I love my kids.  Even the smart ass one who now lives in New York.

The next day I sent her a shot of our dinner… her favorite food… stuffed peppers.

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