When my kids were at the junction of navigating
college/conservatory applications, I found a site that helped me understand
this process, so different now from the time when we were at that stage.
College
Confidential has its trolls and plenty of mis-informants. But for
the most part, it is tremendously helpful. Recommended!
One of the things that struck me when young participates
wrote about their hopes and wishes for higher education was the criteria they
listed. I related to top quality academics and seeking particular teachers. I
resonated to the matters of costs, funding, and scholarship offers most of all.
I was on the paying side, after all. I understood wanting a happy social life
and nice living conditions. But from my dowdy perch, I found one particular mention
that struck me as funny and a bit “off.”
They wrote about the weather. They wanted good weather. They
wanted excellent weather. Weather trumped all. It loomed on the top of so many wish lists that I wondered
if young’uns have totally lost their sense of purpose or maybe, as one parent on the site put it, imagined they were going to a resort to major in beer.
Until the other day, when it occurred to me that when I
moved to the bay area one of the considerations, and the one that keeps me firmly
anchored here to this day, was and is---
The weather.
Whether you believe in global warming, global change, or no
change, it’s July, and as it is in January, here it’s always spring.
See why I’m smiling?
It’s the weather.
