University of Alabama NPC recruitment 2019 thread

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by DGTess

I hope you keep us updated with everything. This experience is foreign to me. Absolutely foreign. Decorating rooms?? SEC rush?? Emphasis on "cute"?? Staying while daughter go through???

I keep reading these stories. It's like a fantasy novel to me - a completely different world from what I know. Maybe if I read enough of them over the next 100 or so years I'll understand!

Thank you.

Tess, I went to school there back when bell bottom jeans were first popular, and it's a foreign country to me now. We all thought the moms who stayed for the week were literally crazy. Coordinated and decorated dorms - all that stuff wasn't even on the market. And your parents coming for bid day? Unfathomable. Who would want their parents there?

[ComradesTrue]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

Tess, I went to school there back when bell bottom jeans were first popular, and it's a foreign country to me now. We all thought the moms who stayed for the week were literally crazy. Coordinated and decorated dorms - all that stuff wasn't even on the market. And your parents coming for bid day? Unfathomable. Who would want their parents there?

I was barely BORN when bell bottom jeans were the rage and I am with you 100% on all of that. Could not agree more on why would anyone *want* their parents there! We finally escaped the nest and were ready to be seen as independent and grown up. We would have been mortified had mom showed up at all. My parents didn't even help me move in. I just packed the car and headed off to school.

Though not Alabama it was state of Texas. And Lord knows we Texans invented crazy. Yet, that would have been BEYOND crazy even for us.