The Boy succeeds in college, day one.

I was REALLY pleased with the whole Calculus experience this morning.  There were so many ways this could have (may still be) proved to be an awful idea/experience.  But we got up early, had good breakfasts, got there in plenty of time, including parking and finding the room.  And Thomas actually did go in there BY  HIMSELF, head up, looking confident, and I went down to the lobby.  He came out still smiling, saying he liked the professor, the class was not stressful, he thought things were going to go well.  --Now, we did have the wonderful advantage of being able to preview this professor teaching this very class last semester (thank you lord for the web), so Thomas felt like he knew exactly what to expect, and it went as it was supposed to.  And even tho he is not as well versed in Calculus as he was Japanese (last year's effort to audit a class that went very, very badly and had to be dropped), the advantage is that Calculus is not so interactive.  In Japanese he was being asked to speak out loud in class several times an hour.  And it didn't help him that he was better than almost anyone in the class and always got his correct.  It was very stressful to be talking loud enough to be heard in a room full of strangers.