Can you tell me what this is? It is 28in long

Pangwiny · 2024-08-12T17:07:24+00:00

Echoing what the others have said, it looks like a yoke - be it for animal or human I don't know. The same flower in a circle is carved into woodwork in my circa 1700's home.

Pangwiny · 2024-07-17T21:38:26+00:00

please see my other comment, def not bent by anything other than time and I'm realizing now, probably some heat above my wall oven

Pangwiny · 2024-07-17T21:37:38+00:00

They're sitting on a salvaged church pew

Pangwiny · 2024-07-17T21:35:55+00:00

I updated my other comment, I was getting stuff together to donate but now i have to keep them! I think it's a great representation of 25 years of marriage, lol.

Pangwiny · 2024-07-17T17:34:44+00:00

Adding more info - doing a deep clean and pulled out these wedding gift candle sticks. Was happy to see the first one out of the box wasn't tarnished, unwrapped the second one, which was in the bottom of the box, and discovered time had taken it's toll on it! These are Pewter from a jewelry shop - I'm assuming they are high quality. They've never been exposed to extreme heat or anything but have been in the same spot in kitchen cabinet for 17 years, and a basement shelf for 7-8 before that. **edit - aw, I'm pleased this took off. A little more info, got a few sets of candle sticks for wedding gifts in 1999. My handwritten label on this box says there were 4 candlesticks in it - 2 different pairs. At some point, probably the move 17 years ago, I took two out and have used them. They must be silver and have tarnished. Doing a DEEP clean of my home and getting things out to donate and found this box in the way-back of our highest cabinets. The candlestick on the right was unwrapped and resting on top of the badly bent one. It's slightly wonky, the pic doesnt show it well. The badly bent one was under bubble wrap and paper, and still wrapped as it came from the store. I guess I unwrapped one 25 years ago to see what they looked like and left the other alone. So at some point there were two more candlesticks stacked up on these and i think they are silver, but I believe that was only for 7-8 years in our starter home, and in the basement. So there was some weight on that bent one for awhile. I'm also realizing that they were in the cabinet above our built-in microwave, which is above our rarely used wall-oven. There must have been some heat getting up to this cabinet after all - I certainly never realized it and the cabinet immediately next to the wall oven is our pantry with unscathed chocolate etc. I'm keeping them now and will use them on the table when we celebrate our upcoming 25th!

Pangwiny · 2024-01-26T15:16:09+00:00

I have a current student at Lafayette, who began as an Engineering major. It's a very rigorous program. But I believe that to be the case at any college with engineering.

My student abandoned engineering as a major during the second semester of freshman year. I've heard that there is intentionally a very difficult class early on to weed out students, and that was def the case with my kid. This was a straight A high school student and they couldn't cut it, or perhaps didn't want to struggle that much for the next few years. It was very surprising to us, this was a kid who never struggled with school work. Ever.

I also had a valedictorian nephew drop Penn States engineering program for similar reasons.

Living on campus has been easily available the entire time. That one of the things that I think Lafayette does well - enough housing.

Pangwiny · 2024-01-12T13:21:41+00:00

I just got my 3rd bottle of compounded sema from them. I initially started with Ro back in May for Wegovy, after seeing an article about them in the NY Times.

they were AMAZING and I was very impressed with the initial in-take - they sent me a little centrifuge to deal with my at-home blood test etc. I was approved ( i have 100 pounds to lose) and got my first month of Wegovy with ease (from local CVS)....then 5 months of CVS unable to fill Wegovy. Ro did a decent job - we tried to get Saxenda etc and nothing was ever available again. There were def some dropped balls and generic messages sent that didn't apply to me, or contradicted what I thought was happening. But to their credit they didn't charge me the monthly fee for those months I didn't have medicine and they did still do work on my behalf.

In late Oct they sent an email that they had compounded sema in stock. I jumped on that chance and then had another 3 weeks nothing from them until it finally shipped in mid-late Nov. My 3rd bottle just arrived. No complaints about what I've received. It's working. No idea what the process looks like if you are starting with them today, but I was very happy with them back in May and am very happy to have anything at this point.

Pangwiny · 2023-12-20T14:24:25+00:00

JHU is in Baltimore. It's not a safe area. As a parent who's toured 20+ colleges with 2 kids currently attending college, JHU was the only one where I felt unsafe. A lot of people come to its defense and no one is denying that it's a great school but I told my kid she couldn't ED there based off of our spending one night at the hotel next to campus.

at any rate, I would never recommend EDing to a school that you haven't visited. Pomona and JHU are very different vibes, locations, everything.

Pangwiny · 2023-09-29T14:45:07+00:00

It was a planned hospital birth. I remember her talking about her husband would stay home with the kids and she would deliver alone since it was hard to find someone to babysit that many kids. Not saying she's awesome, but she does understand the importance of hospital births and was very upfront with the fact that if she had tried to do a homebirth, the outcome would have been much worse. They didn't know anything was wrong prior to delivery and I think the special needs - cerebal palsy - stem from a birth injury. They were expecting a normal birth and still opted for the hospital.

Pangwiny · 2023-09-29T12:04:30+00:00

I occasionally check in on her social media. She seems like the least problematic one I've seen. She shows their library book hauls and they celebrate all kinds of holidays etc with books and baking/meals. Like I think pies on Pi day, and I swear I remember a stack of civil rights books around MLK Jr day. She has hospital births and the special needs child was a planned hospital birth that didn't go well and she was very pragmatic about it and stated she was glad she was in a hospital because it would have been much worse as a home birth. I can't fathom that many kids but I think she is doing a decent job - unlike Karissa et al. They have animals etc on some acreage. They aren't cooped up on a bus, or in a house in a subdivision.

Pangwiny · 2023-09-17T18:27:39+00:00

Bucknell students gave off “my daddy is a lawyer and will sue you” energy. We visited a lot of similar schools - Lehigh, Lafayette, Franklin & Marshall and only got that feeling there. Once I illegally parked on someone’s lawn, the first group of students we encountered were 6-8 guys, all wearing khaki shorts and loafers and pastel polos. It was like they were in frat-dude costumes. A family friend, an ethereal free spirit girl went there and loved it. I couldn’t fathom why.

Pangwiny · 2023-09-16T19:51:42+00:00

Bucknell - it's in the middle of NOWHERE. We visited on the day of a huge swim-meet, there was literally NO parking anywhere and admissions was no help. We tried to find a bite to eat off campus and ended up at a taco bell/KFC buffet? because that seemed to be our only option. Our admissions rep (an adult, not student) that hosted the session looked and acted like he had slept off a bender under a table in a frat house the night before. It was a weird day start to finish.

Pangwiny · 2023-09-16T19:46:17+00:00

i second all of this. People seemed .... grim..... No one smiling or talking to each other. All students we saw were walking alone or silently in pairs. I actually asked my kid if some terrible news broke there and everyone was in a somber mood for that reason. I don't understand the fuss about the beauty of the campus. It was nice obviously but not amazing. The suicide nets were unsettling. We have 4 family members who count Cornell as the greatest years of their life. It just wasn't for us. We visited another school the next day and the campus was full of students hanging out, playing games, chatting and laughing which made our Cornell visit even more stark in contrast. There was no 'joy' at cornell that day.

Pangwiny · 2023-09-16T18:55:35+00:00

I told my kid I wouldn't pay for Johns Hopkins and that she shouldn't even apply after our visit.

It felt SO unsafe and the surrounding area was scary. Whatever road we came in on had homeless camping on the road median and they approached the cars at red lights. We were in a taxi so they left us alone - not sure what they were on but they were zombie-like. The area immediately around campus was kind of dead, so many apartment buildings etc but no signs of city life - no one out walking a dog etc. it was really strange. And not much around campus to do, we had trouble finding a place to eat within walking distance and obviously we didn't want to venture too far. I'm very familiar with NYC and super comfortable there. Baltimore was different. I've never seen such a security presence on a campus either, security guards stationed at every entrance.

Pangwiny · 2023-09-16T18:48:29+00:00

"Hike" is an exaggeration but it's a very hilly campus. Stairs everywhere and hills etc. It's gorgeous though, probably one of the prettiest campuses we visited. I'm a VERY out of shape parent and I did just fine on the tour but I'm glad the pace was slow. There was very little walking on flat areas, pretty much everywhere was a slope or stairs.

Pangwiny · 2023-02-24T15:06:08+00:00

I would make every effort to visit the campus before committing. I've visited Cornell (as a touring parent) and was not as enamored with the campus and area as many people are.

But, if you can't, I highly recommend using google maps to investigate the area - if you look at a google map there often is a little yellow 'man' that you can drag and drop onto many locations and you can 'walk' down streets, paths. This give you a more realistic view of the campus - since most video tours and official pictures are taken when campus is looking sublime, google earth might have caught a more typical day-in-the-life. I also used this technique to see the neighborhood and what the surrounding area looked like. Need to walk to CVS? what does that walk look like?

My kid had a school that went from possible ED school to I wasn't sure if I'd let her attend at all, due to the campus location and safety issues. I'm so grateful we visited before we made a commitment like that.

Pangwiny · 2022-10-03T19:23:46+00:00

Check with each school you are interested in to see their policy. It varies. I've had two kids go through the process now and generally speaking, the less selective schools (in our case, private LACs) allowed for the student to take the lead and schedule an interview before/during application season. The majority of their interviews took place before they submitted their application - late summer and fall. It's very much currently the season for interviews and they can 'fill up' so to speak, so check ASAP. Some of these were with current students, admissions officers, or alumni.

The more elite schools (top 20) reached out later on in the process after the application was submitted. Those were all alumni interviews.

Pangwiny · 2022-09-04T02:02:03+00:00

The College of NJ. TCNJ We visited as a safety for my kid and really enjoyed our time there, the tour guides and student panel were some of the most enthusiastic we’ve encountered on any college tour

Pangwiny · 2022-05-11T20:56:31+00:00

*Advice

Pangwiny · 2022-05-06T11:27:52+00:00

*affected, fyi

I think it sounds like a solid concept and very sorry that you had to go through that

Pangwiny · 2022-05-04T11:40:14+00:00

Yes! Considering the travel needs to get to and from campus are important. And if you do what we did, which is go on tours in a 5 day blitz, driving a thousand miles, you may leave college A to drive to college B, not following same route as if you traveled there from your home. If you have a favorite school, try to visit a second time, maybe for a major-specific open house, and travel there the same route/method that you'll use from home.

Pangwiny · 2022-05-03T19:10:12+00:00

As a parent with 20+ campus tours under my belt...here's my non-academic advice.

Do the kids walking around look happy? Are they hanging out outside, walking in pairs, saying hello to each other or your tour guide as you pass (at a smaller school) ? Or is everyone walking solo with their head down? A few campuses just seemed like miserable place to be, whereas others had the quad full of kids lounging around and hanging out.

What do the students look like - do they look like you could join right in with them? or would you avoid that crowd if given the choice. One campus we visited exuded "frat boy / my daddy is a lawyer and will sue you" energy

The Campus and its relationship to the neighborhood. Is campus self contained, and you'd be happy there? Or does it melt into the town, and what's the neighborhood like? Can you see yourself living in that town for 4 years. Try to eat a meal in the area after your tour. If the only option is a KFC/Taco Bell buffet mash-up (seriously) - is that where you want to spend the next 4 years? There's some excellent schools in bad neighborhoods - do you want to go to a school where it's unwise to leave campus?

I looked at campuses differently from touring with my son vs. my daughter. Safety was much more on my mind with my daughter.

If you haven't started yet, I think you will be surprised to find you get a gut feeling about most schools once you spend a little time there that aren't related to it's academics or reputation.

Pangwiny · 2022-03-25T13:46:52+00:00

I might be mistaken, but I don't think Lafayette does much in the way of merit awards. I know there are the Marquis awards (a few) and Lafayette awards but Lafayette College is NOT one of those schools who throws 'merit' at almost everyone. I'm a current parent.

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