"My parents are driving up from Oregon and we’re going to the Mariners baseball game. … Then we are going to dinner on the waterfront" — Gabriela Galindez Junior, French, economics

"My mother lives in Germany, so I sent her a card well in advance so that it could arrive in time. I also bought her the new Neil Diamond CD" — Emily Allen Senior, Economics, international studies

"I’m taking my mom, dad and grandma to see my sister’s play, and we are all going out to dinner before the play" Cooper Hopkins Senior, cinema studies