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College Choices for Milkids
There are two topics relevant to milkids and colleges at this point in the year dealing with the anticipation of being accepted or rejected and deciding which college to attend. For now, let’s be positive
Tom Wahl teaches business writing at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, Colo., and is a freelance writer. He is married to a retired Air Force certified nurse-midwife. Her career has allowed them to live, travel, and raise their kids overseas (even sending them to host-country, local public schools). In addition, they spent 18 months after her retirement traveling the country full time in an RV while blogging about their experiences for MOAA. Wahl frequently writes about navigating the college admission and application process sharing the experience and research gained from sending a son to Boston University on an Air Force ROTC scholarship and a daughter preparing to attend MIT and being awarded both Air Force ROTC and Navy ROTC scholarships. Next up for college is their son, who is a freshman in high school.
There are two topics relevant to milkids and colleges at this point in the year dealing with the anticipation of being accepted or rejected and deciding which college to attend. For now, let’s be positive
It’s September, and a lot of MilKids are off to college for the first time. They’ve experienced new schools before (even foreign schools). However, life for a freshman at college is a unique experience new people to meet, new
For MilKids, junior year in high school can be nerve racking (maybe more so for their parents). This is because the college search and application process begins in earnest college brochures and emails start rolling in, plans to take
After last week’s column highlighting advice for soon to be college freshmen from my son at Boston University, I had a few questions from parents about my son choosing to go across the country for college,
Through my wife’s military career, we’ve been fortunate to be around British and Australians – fortunate in that it exposed us to new ideas and customs (and terms — we’re never wearing a fanny pack in England).
Last week I mentioned three MilSpouse run Facebook sites offering forums for advice and interesting reading. The point of noting these MilVillages (as I like to call them) was they address two common areas of conversation