It was an afternoon in September. When I was _______ eighteen, I stood in front of a six-story high, red brick building. It was my first day of _______ and I was a bit _______ and a bit excited at the same time. I had two suitcases and a bag with me. They were _______ with all of my clothes and everything else I thought I would need. I _______ them up the five stairs to my room and looked around, _______ what life had in store for me.

It was another afternoon in September twenty-five years later. My daughter and I were standing in front of the _______ building at the same college. As I helped her carry her things up to her room, I _______ that she seemed to have much more _______ than I did years ago. What's more, she looked more worried than I ________ being on my first day there.

Last night I had a ________ that I was back in that same room wondering what classes I would take. I often wondered what this dream ________ but when I woke up this morning it became clear to me. We are sometimes teachers in life, but we are always ________ in it. We are here taking the most ________ class ever and it takes a lifetime. The stuff（东西）we carry with us through this life doesn’t matter at all either. It is the stuff we carry inside of us when we leave this life that ________.

In order to separate loving parents from their freshman sons, Morehouse College in Atlanta has held a/an_______“Parting Ceremony.”

When University of Minnesota freshmen_______at the end of this month, parental separation will be a little trickier: mothers and fathers will be_______to a reception elsewhere_______students can meet their roommates and talk about dorm room space —_______adult breaking in.

In the latest wave in which superinvolved parents_______their children to college, universities are_______activities_______to speed the separation. In the age of MSN and twice-daily texts home,_______colleges are urging “sticky parents” to leave sooner so students can____________independence.

Grinnell College here, like others, has found it____________to make it clear when parents____________say goodbye. After computer printers and bags had been carried to dorm rooms, everyone gathered in the gymnasium, students on one side,____________on the other.

Shortly____________, mothers and fathers were urged to leave campus.

Moving their students in usually takes a few hours. Moving on? Most deans can tell____________of parents who hang around campus for days. At Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y. “We recognize it’s a____________day for families,” Beverly Low, the dean (院长) of first-year students said. Still, during various parent meetings on Colgate’s move-in day, Ms. Low and other officials____________tell the parents____________that “activities for the class of freshmen begin at 4 on time, so parents should leave before 4.” she said.

Formal departure ceremonies are unusual____________growing in popularity, said Joyce Holl, head of the National Orientation Directors Association. A more common method is for colleges to limit the hour for last hugs____________, the parents of Princeton freshmen learn from the move-in schedule, “the rest events are intended for students only.”

Rhemy Elsey, a fifth-grader, is deaf and mainly uses sign language to communicate, along with the ______ of an interpreter. Some of his fellow fifth-graders decided to ______ their break once a week to form an American Sign Language club in order to chat more ______ with Rhemy.

It’s been a few months since the club was ______ and his classmates’ participation has _______ Rhemy. “It’ s like they want to be like me” he said.

Though Rhemy signs to communicate with others. he has cochlear implants（耳蜗植入）that help him ______. His interpreter, Tammy Arvin, ______ the club, which meets every Wednesday. So far, the club members have learned basic ____   in different topics including school, food and clothing.

Arvin who accompanies him during school said that ______ the club’s formation, not only was it difficult for students to communicate directly with Rhemy, his use of an interpreter also led to ______ challenges for him. “It can be really ______ for deaf kids from a social and emotional standpoint to have an interpreter     ____ them around all day long,” Arvin said. So when the other students expressed interest in an ASL club, Arvin was ______.

The club has already had an effect on the way the students ______ with Rhemy. The ______ can have more natural conversations which make Rhemy feel less isolated(孤立的). And the students are also ______ a very important culture.

“They don’t necessarily realize they’ are learning…about deaf culture by ____     this club,” Arvin said. “It ______ gives them a perspective on this other ______ that they previously weren’t aware of, so they’re ______ greatly just in terms of learning about diversity and having a broader perspective on the world around them.