{"id":99,"date":"2013-01-17T13:22:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T18:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2013-01-17T20:01:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T01:01:27","slug":"their-terms-soleil-style-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Their Terms: Soleil Style Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/?attachment_id=109\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109 alignright\" alt=\"Congrats!\" src=\"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DearSoleil.jpg\" width=\"187\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DearSoleil.jpg 187w, https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DearSoleil-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a>The crazy excitement of applying to college on Sunday, October 7<sup>th<\/sup> gave way to our standard busy week.\u00a0 While we thought of our far-fetched plan and continued to discuss it, Chorus, StuCo, school plays and performances occupied far more mindshare.\u00a0 When we received back to back emails October 16<sup>th<\/sup> and 17<sup>th<\/sup> outlining a multitude of policies and procedures for incoming students, we were fairly certain the letter would follow.\u00a0 Indeed it was right behind.<\/p>\n<p>While the technology tools available to college students have become more readily accessible, college procedures\u00a0 are no simpler than my own Freshman experience.\u00a0 Determining what hour of what day Soleil would qualify to register in the hierarchal puzzle, what pre-requisites were required, which classes were available to non-majors, what supplies were necessary for the classes and what would remain available left me frustrated.\u00a0 Despite our advances in technology, the software used is archaic.\u00a0 There wasn\u2019t a drop down menu in sight.\u00a0 Regardless, we muddled through and determined several classes of interest, should they be available by the time open enrollment allowed registration.<\/p>\n<p>The day of open enrollment I was nearly as tense as the day my bar results were released.\u00a0 Soleil had her heart set on a couple of classes that almost fit reasonably into our family schedule and I was loathe to find them full.\u00a0 When the hour was upon us, we logged in and in mere moments registered her for her most preferred class.\u00a0 It was almost too easy. My eleven-year-old was an admitted <i>and<\/i> enrolled college student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crazy excitement of applying to college on Sunday, October 7th gave way to our standard busy week.\u00a0 While we thought of our far-fetched plan and continued to discuss it, Chorus, StuCo, school plays and performances occupied far more mindshare.\u00a0 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/?p=99\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-felicite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raisinglinchpins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}