2007 College Confidential Writing Awards

[jmmom]

<p>Well, it’s happened. Writing so good that I simply had to run and find our Golden Globes, our Academy Awards, our Emmys… no, our Cowards.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=56155[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=56155&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>We had them in 2004-05. Maybe they leaked into 2006. Who remembers? But now, well into 2007, we have a Master of the Genre. Master of a New Genre, if you ask me: The College Confidential Suspense Novella, Installment Division.</p>

<p>Allow me to nominate: oaklandmom for “A Drop Off Day Story, in Installments.” <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=398024[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=398024&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Unless she’s reached denouement in the time it’s taken me to dig up the history, she’s still in medias res. With a bunch of us hanging around, waiting with bated breath, for the next issue.</p>

[sybbie719]

<p>Ohmigosh…</p>

<p>jmmom,</p>

<p>I can’t beleive that you found them. I was looking for them a couple of weeks ago because some the really great lines. I hope that we do not lose this thread again because there are still a lot of great awards to be given.</p>

[jmmom]

<p>It wasn’t easy sybbie :(. But well worth it. Besides my new nomination,; … wandering through those award-winning posts… well, priceless :D.</p>

[sheldon0789]

<p>Hi parents, I’m sorry to barge in on this little soir</p>

[mommusic]

<p>Best “drop off day” story EVER! :D</p>

<p>I nominate most everything sluggbugg has ever written.</p>

[cheers]

<p>Nominating Drosselmeier (everyone needs a bit of Dross in their day) for his post in the Freshman Report thread.</p>

<p>

Hah! Yeah, when we dropped off my D last year, it was no problem at all. It was a surprise, really. But it all happened so fast there was no time for melodrama. I thought it would be that way with my son this year. We dumped his stuff into his room and all of us went out for dinner. Drove up to the school, and everyone just sat there - not a word from anyone. Then the boy said softly “Well, I guess this is it”. That pretty much kicked it all off.</p>

<p>My little ones all began to ask why he HAD to go, they were crying, my boy was crying and squeezing them so hard I could see a vein bulging down the middle of his forehead. My wife was crying.</p>

<p>I had it all mapped out in my head. I would get out of the car, give him a hug, shake his hand, and do the “Make us proud” thing. But when it came to it, all I could do was reach my hand back and hold onto his leg for a very long time as I tried to get myself together, my plan being to salvage what little of the act I could. Unfortunately, I couldn’t even speak. Each time I tried to say something, I was overcome by inexplicable waves of grief. So I just shook my head and stayed quiet. The boy was just the coolest. Crying himself, he said he knew what I wanted to say and that he loved me. I nodded, then he got out of the car and left.</p>

<p>He’s doing fabulously. To my surprise, he loves everything about his school and is learning very rapidly. I must say, I am terribly impressed.</p>

<p>Hey! He’s on the phone right now!

<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=398485&page=3[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=398485&page=3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[Alumother]

<p>Nominating Curmudgeon:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=385663&highlight=curmudgeon[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=385663&highlight=curmudgeon&lt;/a&gt;

O.K… Someone wanted a moving story or at least a story about moving in. Some may remember our move-in extravaganza last year with the borrowed 4 x4 long bed extended cab truck with twenty-two’s and Pamela Sue Anderson mudflaps - yeehaw!! Every time the wheels made the trip over one of Rhodes’ 30,000 speedbumps you could hear a redneck get his wings. Ca-dingle-dingle-dingle. </p>

<p>Left us stranded in the middle of Union. It appears ca-dingle was Dodge for “Get me to a doctor. I’m about to lock-up on you in the middle of Union”. I’m sure no one thought that this years edition could top it. </p>

<p>Au contraire.

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[northeastmom]

<p>

Nominating Drosselmeier (everyone needs a bit of Dross in their day) for his post in the Freshman Report thread.

</p>

<p>I second this nomination. It had me choked up as I read it. The emotions just reached out and grabbed me.</p>

[edad]

<p>I second the nomination for Curmudgeon. He can tell a great story even when the subject matter is a bit mundane - like driving over speed bumps or dropping some items in a stairwell. It is too bad we can only read his stories and can’t hear them complete with a Texas accent.</p>

[MarathonMan88]

<p>Have there ever been COWARD nominees for journalism? I nominate asteriskea and tokenadult, who keep us informed by posting an amazing number of articles and weblinks, both with and without editorial commentary.</p>

[Rachacha]

<p>Nominating BassDad for “So you want to be a Music Major - one Family’s experience”</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=258796[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=258796&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>I liked the use of musical terms as he introduced each section - I have forward this as a member of Music Boosters in my school district to many students and parents…BRAVO!!!</p>

[jmmom]

<p>^^ I remember that thread. Even though I had no direct interest in Music Majors in any way, I found the thread engrossing and enjoyed every word.</p>

[curmudgeon]

<p>I nominate mythmom.

@mythmom

I just get itchy when people devise hierarchies about which uses of the intellect are more noble. I want someone to design the Brooklyn Bridge, someone to build it, someone to figure out how to pay for it, someone who’se already worked out the physics behind it, someone to photograph it, and finally Hart Crane to write a poem about it. Then I want someone else to win a race by bicycling across it, and I want all of them to be equally respected.</p>

<p>I could only write the poem. Maybe I could take the picture. I could bicycle across the bridge, but I doubt I could win a race.

Beautiful. And deserving of our highest award IMHO.</p>

[Karen_Colleges]

<p>I enjoyed reading all the above entries.</p>

<p>I have to use my vote for Curmudgeon’s ‘Moving Day’. Any story that makes people snort coffee out their nose is a good story.</p>

[mj93]

<p>curmudgeon – what thread is mythmom’s post from?</p>

[curmudgeon]

<p>here.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/414480-diversity-college-admissions-game-lack-intellectualism-7.html?highlight=brooklyn+bridge#post4883026[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/414480-diversity-college-admissions-game-lack-intellectualism-7.html?highlight=brooklyn+bridge#post4883026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[cameliasinensis]

<p>jmmom, thanks for linking to the old thread; I was actually just thinking about this post the other day but didn’t remember where it came from:

@lefthandofdog

You know, the love of your life is very likely making plans to attend one of those schools you’ve been admitted to, and if you don’t get yourself over there, you’ll never meet. Not only that, but someone at one of those places (you get to choose, aren’t you lucky?) is going to make you laugh really, really hard. I’d go visit those places and see if I could figure out which place you’ll find these things at, then send in my deposit.

I still think it’s gorgeous. (And for whatever it’s worth, after I’d finished moping over my Princeton rejection, I met the Boy at Dartmouth’s three-day event for accepted students in April. :p)</p>