Tuesday marked time-honored tradition of move-in day at UM, FMU

MIAMI – It’s an annual ceremony of passage: Parents serving to their youngsters transfer in, waving tearful good-byes and the campus as soon as once more comes again to life.  It’s additionally quite a bit of commotion blended in with pleasure.  CBS4 stopped in at the University of Miami and Florida Memorial University to see how the time-honored tradition continues.

“I’ve been waiting for this for a long time,” Kayla Singer, an incoming freshman at UM, mentioned. 

Growing up in DC, her dream was to turn into a Hurricane. 

“I’m ready to leave home and start anew and start an independent journey. I’m studying broadcast journalism in the school of communications.”

While she appears to be like ahead to the subsequent chapter, it is also a bittersweet day for mother and pa, as move-in day marks the day many see their little ones depart the nest for good.

“I’m really excited for all of the adventures that are waiting for her, but we’re definitely going to miss her at home,” Ingrid Singer advised CBS4.

North of UM, on campus at Florida Memorial University, it wasn’t any simpler for fogeys to let their youngsters go.

We requested one tearful father or mother how she was doing.

“You going to miss your baby girl?”

And Rose-Marie, Destiny Rayford’s mother, replied with an affirmative, “Am I?” 

She later requested her daughter half-jokingly, “You sure you want to go?”

Destiny felt just a little extra gleeful for the non-public progress forward. 

“It’s like a new chapter in my life so I’m ready to evolve,” she mentioned.

Sending youngsters off to school could be fairly robust on mother and father, to not point out the associated fee today.  Even with scholarships, almost the whole lot has been going up.

“She went to public school growing up so this is our first time writing these big tuition checks.  But it’ll be fine, it’s worth it, it’s a great investment,” Ingrid Singer added. 

For that motive, Destiny Rayford is concentrated on getting one of the best return of funding for her 4-year diploma. 

And it got here as no shock after we requested her what she was majoring in.  “Business,” she mentioned.

Best of luck to those freshmen, as they’re on the way in which to graduating within the class of 2026.