We're more than four weeks into the college experience, and so far, so good. We haven't had a whole lot of communication from Reed, which has been hard for us. After 8 days, we forced him to call and check in, and we've both been having text exchanges from time to time – I think the only time he reached out on his own was to ask a question about washing his sheets. But we will take this lack of communication over getting phone calls that he's miserable, for sure. He went with his roommate to the first two home football games of the season, and they also went to the movies one night, as well as shopping trips to Walmart and Ross. They seem to be getting along fine (fingers cross that it stays that way!).
The second weekly phone call we had, on Labor Day, he had been sick (!!!!!) – but on his own he went to the school clinic to get checked out (including a covid test, thankfully negative). Just a case of "freshman crud," but the doctor advised staying home until his fever was gone without meds, so he missed three days of classes. He was able to use the food delivery robots to get some of his meals brought to him.
So far he doesn't seem to be having a ton of work in his classes, though he mentioned yesterday it was starting to pick up.
We were very happy to hear that he went to the Madison Historians club the second week of classes, and had fun playing history Jeopardy. He missed the third week, but went back last week and they sat on the quad and afterward he went to dinner with a few of them. Hopefully this will help him find "his people".
It's still strange that he's away, but I think we're all hanging in there – he sure seems to be fine! Being half-empty nesters is definitely a change for us but it's good. Really looking forward to seeing him at family weekend in a couple weeks.
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