Given what colleges have become, I understand the temptation.
There must be some financial angle here. Mom and Dad aren’t usually more “overprotective” of Junior than they are of themselves.
My mother was visiting one weekend when I was in college. My roommate and I threw a huge party that Saturday, and my mother became a celebrity with a lot of our friends when she volunteered to be DD for the evening. It was very cool, but I definitely would not have wanted my parents with me through all 4 years of that experience. What a joke.
People are now perpetual infants; told what to do and directed for the first 25 years of their life by their parents and the remainder of their like directed by the government. This fits perfectly with the nanny state model to produce dependency on others for all decisions.
...are they going to go to her job interviews with her as well...???
let your little bird go!!!
My son is at a small engineering college. He won’t even let us visit let alone move in. This place is so academic, the biggest behavioral problem they have is a case or two of plagiarism. With their internships, most students have security clearances while still in college. No one wants to endanger that.
I grew up in a different era. I chose a school 900+ miles from home. The only time my parents visited was the day I graduated.
My husbands niece graduated from HS at sixteen, over the top brilliant, and was accepted into some kind of accelerated pre-med program at OSU. Only twenty-four students per year are accepted, it was such an accomplishment and such an honor that it couldn’t be turned down, but Ohio State is some pretty rough territory, so her parents rented an apartment near campus, and they lived there with her for a year. She is an interesting creature, and many in our family are wondering if she ever faces failure what she will do.
I have to admit that I wanted to move to the same state as my son who played football because I wanted to go to all his games. He got a shoulder injury so it put a kibosh on the move.