What a difference a day makes

As of the last post here, we learned that following a tour of Humboldt State University that Valerie had decided that she would attend HSU in the fall instead of OSU. I heard that she liked the smaller campus, proximity to the beach and the price. So, I spent the entire last week obsessively making sure that all ducks were in a row to procure housing on campus, test scores and transcripts sent in to meet deadlines, updating vaccination records, making sure that appropriate majors were declared, etc. Poor Valerie. I worked her. (I wouldn't classify myself as a helicopter mom, but I can't help but jump in and assist pushing where there are close deadlines to be met). By the end of the week I felt fairly confident that we were all dialed in. The only thing left to do would be to find a roommate for the dorms, attend an orientation and select classes. What a relief.

What a difference a day makes.

On Saturday Valerie came home from another livestock judging competition at UC Davis where her team placed 2nd place statewide. (Congratulations!) Last year her team placed 3rd in the state and got to go to Denver in January to compete nationally. Well, 2nd place state teams get to go to Kansas City in October. I see more fundraising in our future.

Following this great team success, Valerie had a conversation with her coach where she revealed that she would not be attending college in Oregon or joining a livestock judging team up there. He was helping to arrange a meeting with a livestock judging coach at Linn-Benton Community College (they have a degree partnership program with OSU) where Valerie would potentially receive scholarships and be able to continue livestock judging for the first two years of college. (And, if she continued to do well, she could receive further scholarships for her last two years of college). 

After a further discussion with her coach, she decided that she did want to go to Oregon after all and continue to compete. In fact, it was also revealed to me that perhaps the only reason she wanted to go to Humboldt was because she thought one of her friends would be attending there as well and that maybe they would be roommates. When she found out that her friend would not be able to go to Humboldt, she decided that she didn't like the campus, the town of Arcata or the cold and rainy beach there.

So, Sunday morning I had her logging into the OSU student portal setting herself up there for all the same things we had just done for Humboldt (housing, majors, vaccinations, transcripts, etc.) We are a little ahead of the game with OSU since they are on the quarter system and school starts at the end of September, a full month after Humboldt. Also, we had already had test scores sent to OSU when she originally applied there.

Now we have to plan another trip to Oregon to meet with the livestock judging coach. We'll have some appointments with the music department and possibly the environmental studies department too. But these things will have to take place in April due to our nutty schedule around here. I'll be looking forward to all the Beaver jokes and immature giggling as we go back up there. (Those are my immature giggles and jokes much to Valerie's embarrassment).

In the meantime, we will brace ourselves for the impending jet lag when we spring our clocks forward next weekend. I'm done with this whole springing forward and falling back.