What to expect when they GO TO COLLEGE!!

So you read all the books, the one on what to expect when you’re pregnant ,and the one when you give birth and the baby is seconds old.  Then there is the book about the first days. Weeks. Months. And finally the year.  Where’s the one "what to expect when the little darling GROWS into an 18 year old college kid"?  What should I expect?  I didn't expect to be dropping her in NYC!  A nice suburban college campus setting, that’s what we were looking for.  After all "mom I don't like the city", exact quote.  But lets back up a bit, if you really want to know what to expect you have to go to the end of their junior year possibly beginning of senior year, that’s when a sudden transformation takes place.  Your relatively normal child starts to act like something from the "Exorcist", head spinning, pea soup spewing (ok I'm exaggerating).  You get my point.  There are mornings when I tell her brothers to tread lightly because we don't know who is getting up that morning Jekyll or Hyde.  One moment there is ranting and the next all smiles.  The professionals tell us it's their way of separating, I get that, it doesn't help.  Hang in there though this too shall pass.  By the end of senior year a fairly sweet girl reappears (with a detour or two, three or more).  But progress has been made.  Although some of my friends had a longer battle, I consider myself fortunate.  That is until summer arrives.  Now accepted into college she feels she is a grown up who doesn't need to follow all the rules.  Okay, more separating.  Great!  If I survive this she may not.  We get through the summer and we are both okay, her father on the other hand feels like an alien has possessed her body.  He just doesn’t "get it" I suppose. ( Lol..) So off to college she goes.  She's been deposited in her room and "now you can leave mom, love you, bye".  More to come. . .