True Story: It was 5:50am. It was still dark. The mom came into living room to watch the morning news. Tripped over the accordion file full of mid-west, west, and deep south college junk mail (college mail brochures categorized by region/state, put into separate accordion files and have never thrown out since sophomore year). The mom flailed around like a surfer in order not to fall, and wrenched her upper and lower back, knee, hip. Didn’t fall, broke no furniture nor herself, but oy, was she sore.
“I’m okay,” she said out loud, and realized that no one else was awake. She sighed and limped into the kitchen.
High schoolers start to receive college mail and emails as early as sophomore year if they take practice PSATs then. Did you keep them all or throw them away? Seniors/Parents: it’s December and the time to purge the college paraphernalia looms…
