Back Home Again

We are back from our trip to OSU. After two days our son is safely installed in his dorm room. He has a microwave. His roommate has a refrigerator. It's a small refrigerator and my son wasn't sure that his roommate would allow him to use it, but I explained that he would want to have access to the microwave so he would let our son use the refrigerator. We picked him up a cell phone (important to us,) and food (important to him.) We also picked up a book case for $20.00 dollars at Big Lots. We put that in his closet and stored all his food in it. The beds where lower than my husband or son thought so he did need the bed lifters.

There is actually more storage in his room than I was led to believe. One ten foot wall is all closets and two dressers and over the top over them are cupboards for storage. It is rather hard to get to so he wont want to store anything there that he would want ready access to. Still it would be good for storing luggage and other things he only needs once in a while. Things he wants access to all the time will need to be in the closet, drawers, or under his bed.


He still needs a printer but said that he could use the one at the library till he gets one. I'm not sure where we would put one though. His desk is rather small and his computer takes up almost all of it. There is only one small drawer on his desk. The rest of the space is taken up by a bookcase on the side of his desk closet to his bed. I thought we might put a printer there but the more I think about it the more I'm sure it won't fit even if it is small.

There is a shelf that runs the length of the other 10 foot wall over the beds and desks but there isn't enough room for a normal sized textbook let alone a printer. It's wide enough to set his speakers for his computer and that's it. If he had a laptop that would free up space for a printer, but any laptop we could afford wouldn't cut it for his engineering classes. We would need well over $1,000.00. With all the other expenses we couldn't justify it; not when he already had an excellent PC. Besides he is always tinkering with his PC to upgrade it. The guys say that it is difficult to do that with a laptop. It wouldn't be long before it wouldn't meet his needs any more.

He had to go to a meeting at the engineering college while we were unpacking. When he came back he was excited for the first time in months. He has worried so much over the finances of it all that it was nice to see. They talked about different projects that the engineering school was working on. He came back with tales of Mars airplanes, competitions, places people have been fired. He was like a kid in a candy shop. He was also told that if he took one more class he could have a double major; one in Aerospace engineering and one in mechanical engineering. I think he is seriously considering it.

Right now we are working on his resume. Can you believe it? He's only a Junior. He needs one to get an internship on get into the cooperative program though. He really wants to do one or both of these. It will help him to earn money for school and work in engineering at the same time. Plus it will look good on his resume when he finishes college and is looking to get work.