I'm a little confused, did you or did you not, at least theoretically, need to start attending class in late September or around the first of October?
I do tend to think, based on the image of the transcript, your statement, and an investigation of class start dates at U. Washington going back to 2000, that the classes started 9/19/61, not 8/19/61.
However that still doesn't give Stanley Ann much time to recover from the birth, a few days at least, get plane reservations, pack for Seattle, find housing, find a babysitter for the times/days the two classes met, and otherwise get settled. Do-able, but pushing it. Now, if she already had decided on attending, already had a place to live, plane reservations, etc, (or was already in the general area, but not at the University yet, before BHO was born, and only needed to find a babysitter, that would have made it a piece of cake.
Reports from one of her friends puts her and Baby Barry in the Seattle area in mid to late August of '61, with her not really not knowing how to change his diapers. (No trivial thing to learn for an only child in '61, no pampers in those days, just cloth, plastic pants, and diaper pins.).
I don’t want to make light of the responsibilities of a new mother, I just wanted to correct the general impression given by the article that she was attending the UW as a full-time student only 3 weeks after giving birth. I think another month of breathing room makes a difference, along with the fact that night school classes aren’t the same as being a full-time student. We know where she was 2 and 1/2 weeks after the birth. We still have no proof of where she was when he was born.
If she gave birth in HI she would have had her mother there to teach her to care for the baby. Grandmothers love that sort of thing.