<p>How about the Work at Home procrastinator?</p>
<p>Yes, I can be in your tribe, too, mathmom. The “sense of belonging” grows by the minute, er… post.</p>
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Add me to that group and sign me up for the “Our one and only is in her first year of college and I learned so much here, I can’t stop visiting” group.</p>
<p>I object to the Parent with No Life designation. I have a life, in a universe that is parallel to CC; I am merely procrastinating about living that life. 
So add me to the category of Procrastinating Parent of sons with two data points already in college, not hesitant to make sweeping generalizations and inflicting opinions on others. and in bad need of a 12-step program to get rid of CC addiction.</p>
<p>How about Confused Children Of Uninvolved Parents? There seems to be a few of us hanging around these parts. ;)</p>
<p>Lover of University Life
Gap Year Zealot
He’ll Come Right Zealot
Slackers Will Rule the World Advocate (a division of PWB [Parents With Boys])
Liberal Try-Hard
Mental Health Advocate
Misting Temple Designer
Global Friend Builder
Advisor to Future Architects</p>
<p>I got the hat trick!!!</p>
<p>Military mom (rotc not SA)
MWNL (S1 in college, S2 just a Jr.)
Mom of Boys …the world’s largest sorority with perpetual bewildered looks</p>
<p>I’m definitely another Parent With No Life. D1 is now a junior in college, but I keep telling myself that I’m still on CC to keep my Admissions engines warmed up for the sake of D2 - who is all of a sophomore in high school.</p>
<p>Some other archetypes:</p>
<p>The Chat Room Kid - Student on the other Cafe who posts thousands of messages of mindless chatter but never posts anything about college admissions.
The ■■■■■ - A tireless cheerleader for one particular school and a nonstop critic of its rival schools.
The Tiresome Axe Grinder - knows the lyrics to only one song, such as “The Academic Performance Cult.”
The Ivy League Hater - Self explanatory. The most common subspecies is the Harvard Hater.
The Drive-By Shooter on the Information Superhighway - Skips from thread to thread making inflammatory or downright hateful comments everywhere.
The Obnoxious Debater - Views everything in the world through the lens of either far left or far right wing politics. Can’t ever let up.
The Homeschooling Believer - Don’t ever cross 'em
The Fraternity/Sorority Proponent (or Critic) - Has nothing but good (or bad) to say about the Greek system.
The Shouting Punctuator - GETS CARRIED AWAY!!!</p>
<p>GREAT thread. Im a ‘mom of sons’ and a ‘had so much fun’-ner… </p>
<p>Also a ‘Love To Wet My Pants Laughing At Sluggbugg aka Alley Dweller’. Also an ‘Alma Mater Booster’-- though par72 takes that cake!</p>
<p>Alas, all of you regulars are missing the largest group - The Lurkers. I lurk because I am usually too slow to make a meaningful contribution. By the time I come up with a witty or appropriate response, it is usually the next day and is quite irrelevant. I enjoy reading your posts though. My favorite post today references the “Parent’s Who Have Only One Verified/Verifiable Data Point BUT Are Very Willing To Make Sweeping Generalizations Anyway.” Heehee - that’s the best one yet!</p>
<p>Carry on. :)</p>
<p>Member of Moms-of-Sons, Laughing at SluggBugg, Boosting My Alma Mater and the one about gee everyone here is awfully interesting.</p>
<p>Also a member of:</p>
<p>Works With Techies - Never Gets to Talk About the Meaning of Life Anywhere Else Unless the Meaning of Life Runs on the Razr Operating System.</p>
<p>Mootmom may also be a member of this group:).</p>
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LOL! How funny the truth is! I am a member of that group! Also probably the parents-with-no-life and starving-for-conversation groups!</p>
<p>Pre-POST-er-us: The select group of CC-ers with over 3,000 posts.</p>
<p>I’ll add a few:</p>
<p>The single school booster: Similar to the alma mater booster, but it’s the college their kid goes to. Somehow manages to bring up their school into every thread.</p>
<p>The “elite admissions are random” poster: recommends applying to all of the top 25 USNWR colleges because you never know.</p>
<p>The “elite admissions are not random” poster: Their kid got into all they applied to, so there’s definitely a science to it.</p>
<p>The “we did it this way” poster: My child got into his first choice school, so everything we did is the only way to do it.</p>
<p>The “no parental involvement” poster (can be parent or student): After the child was weaned, they did it all themselves and worked their way through preschool to college, parents didn’t lift a finger to help them in any way.</p>
<p>The “I did it all for my kid” poster: Student was too busy going to school, studying, playing in five varsity sports and the school band and sleeping less than two hours/night, so parent did all the college research and completed the applications for them.</p>
<p>What about the bedsheets- obsessed parents?</p>
<p>“Yes, I can be in your tribe, too, mathmom. The “sense of belonging” grows by the minute, er… post.”</p>
<p>Well comparing your numbers to mine, I have a long way to go. :)</p>
<p>This is definitely an archetypal thread–as measured by the fact that so many of my favorite posters have immediately jumped on. I realize that I have progressed through several archetypes, from Lurker to MOB with one in college and another rising but I still check daily. Actually this was my first internet “board” so I suppose we could have a virgin category too (at my age that’s like getting carded, quite a thrill)—and maybe Charter Club from when CC originated?</p>
<p>Do we have to be concerned about archetype confusion? eg: belonging to too many categories??</p>
<p>Nah. I"m sure there is something available on Sinner’s Alley to help with that condition…</p>
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<p>Nah, I’m just one of few who venture out of of the SA box. :-)</p>
<p>mmaah - MOB? With fewer than 200 posts you are clearly a “cc gifted”. You are using abbreviations I with my >1000 status don’t recognize. Eek. Marite, I think of you as the cc oracle. What does MOB mean?</p>