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Welcome to Quick Fix, a special how-to bonus episode for Slate Plus members.

I'm Carvel Wallace.

We're continuing our conversation about how to send your kid off to college with our guest, Christine Self.

She's the director of parent and family relations at Texas Tech University,

and we paired her up with Jennifer, who was sending her daughter Maddie off to the University of Kansas in a couple of months.

Like many students who leave home to go off to school, Maddie is leaving some folks behind.

And in a moment, we'll hear about a significant other situation.

But first, what about Jennifer's other daughter?

Maddie has a younger sister who's a sophomore and her name's Emily and these two

girls are very close. So that is also something that we're going to navigate is how do we adapt to

life without Maddie in the house? Yeah. And how does Emily adapt to life without Maddie in the house?

Exactly. I asked Christine's self how parents can help siblings

through this transition and whether Texas Tech does anything special for situations like this one.

So we actually do have a sibling weekend every spring. We don't do one in the fall because we have a

family weekend in the fall. We try to have those about six weeks into the semester

because that's typically about the time

that if there's going to be any homesickness,

it's kind of when it sets in.

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