Milestone
I believe I wrote my last tuition check today. I’ve been writing them since 1987, for private elementary, middle and high schools. Now, an intensive summer quarter of Spanish is all my son, my only child, needs to graduate from the University of Washington. As well as he’s done since engaging his major (English/creative writing), I don’t envision him in graduate school real soon. He hasn’t shown, so far, many signs of the “academic personality”, preferring action-oriented recreation and employment.
It’s not really that much of a fiscal relief - his private high school was much more expensive than the UW - but it will represent a sea change as we begin to disentangle our other financial interdependencies such as health insurance, car insurance and other expenses that I’ve paid while he’s been a student. In this sense, I may be the patient, 22 years behind his mom, of post-partum issues.
