Following up on this. Daughter is enjoying freshman year at Trinity so far. Likes her classes, including a trap and skeet shooting PE class. Never shot a gun before and hit a moving target this week. She loves it.
Son is living in San Jac at UT doing ME. Just talked to him, doing Calc II homework on a Saturday night, says the course is a bitch. Dad reminded him of advice to do Calc I, but he said it wouldn’t have helped. He will get through it. He’s getting out with a few friends (including @blacklab ‘s daughter who has him squarely in the friend zone) and doing stuff outside, but I do think it is to tough on him without a roommate (had a plan to room with/share a suite with three friends from high school, but when their classes went all remote they all decided to live at home for the semester) and not being allowed to have other people in the room. Think it gets lonely at night, but again he will be fine.