DD (16 in a few days!) is finishing the year well, at least relative to where we were with her in March, which was a bit scary, actually. Her grades are fine, (better than fine, actually) and she is actively working to manage her anxiety, and is developing the discipline to use lifestyle modifications the way that she should, has made strides in not procrastinating and in organizing and being fully responsible for herself. She's figuring it out, slowly but surely.
Summer will mean having her licensed to drive, thus more independently mobile and able to get herself to her summer classes-- at two different institutions. Oh well. She took the initiative and signed herself up for a college testing study skills (self-paced) class at the local CC in addition to her Uni classes. She still needs to work on her test anxiety and also on her ability to predict what she will see on exams, and figure out how to actually STUDY for a test, which she's never had to do until now.
She has settled into a major that she (and we) all think is a much better fit for her than CS/EE was
ever going to be, and she is very excited to work on a semi-pro summer theater production.
Should be a busy summer-- which is a good thing. Busy means not having time to think about (er, or "mope" really) some of the stuff that she should just, er-- leave alone. Mostly existential stuff, but interpersonal things, too.
She may actually get paid for doing set work this summer, and I know that she wants to do that so that she can make her year's car payments to us.
It's all good. She stumbled a bit starting college (and I'm really glad that she wasn't doing it living away from home), but she's found her feet and is growing up.
