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PARENTS SURVIVAL GUIDE 2019

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Parent resources

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Help with financial aid

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Where to eat and stay on your visit

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Parents Q&A

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IU parents through the years

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Younger siblings Q&A

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IU resources

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How to help a homesick student

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What the IDS recommends to bring

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Words of advice for parents

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Care package tips

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Our Orienter magazine is how IU Student Media welcomes incoming students to the university, but this guide is how we welcome parents to this phase as well. Whether this is your first child you’re

sending off to college or your fifth, it certainly doesn’t hurt to look for some tips and tricks to being the best college parent you can be. I moved almost 1,000 miles away from my home of Tampa, Florida, to go to IU, so my parents don’t get to visit me up at college that often. I miss them all the time and I know that ache is near-universal for both college students and their parents. Hopefully, this guide will help to combat some of

those feelings. In this guide, you’ll find our recommendations for items your student should bring, words of advice for parents from key on-campus figures, a guide on where to eat and stay during a visit and more. One last thing: Breathe. It’s going to be okay.

Annie Aguiar Summer 2019 IDS editor-in-chief

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