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<p>Hahahahaha! Needed 10 characters.</p>
<p>I can’t believe it took until post #97 to come up with that key archetype of
Thanks, anxiousmom.</p>
<p>Also, anxiousmom. Stay tuned re that poker playing son. There’s a kid over on the Transfer Forum wondering whether he should list his poker accomplishments (invited to/won some select tournaments) as his EC. So far, he’s not getting any support for the plan. But I’ll let you know if it turns about to be a winning hook. ;)</p>
<p>Which brings me to another archetype, the “Is this a Hook?” parents and kids.</p>
<p>Is being a high profile poster on CC a hook?</p>
<p>jmmom:</p>
<p>If he succeeds in “bringing down the house” maybe that poker player can get into MIT.</p>
<p>Marite - well, bed activities took place in the bathroom and went “beyond,” so I vote for all three. </p>
<p>Hey, nothing wrong with hanging around the Parents Forum. I’m in the “I accidentally found CC several years ago and haven’t been able to leave” group.</p>
<p>Now, may I poke fun at my CC friends? We have the:
“I think I look like a movie star but really resemble a dead President” archetype.
“I go to steakhouses with vegetarians” archetype.
“My D never thought about an all-girls school but loves her all-women’s school.*”
“College wardrobe? You mean dress whites, right?”
“I have an internet addiction.”</p>
<p>*It’s not a girls’ school without men; it’s a women’s school without boys.</p>
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Is there more than one member of this group, TD?</p>
<p>The “I love selectivity in colleges but can’t understand selectivity for social organizations” archetype.</p>
<p>Marite, yeah no talk of bed sheets or egg crate mattresses on that thread but inquiring minds are wondering if the towels in that bathroom, or the one on the floor in the hallway were Fieldcrest, Cannon, pima cotton or ? :D</p>
<p>The “I think they left a changeling because how can the second one be sooooo different from his brother?” archetype. Surely I’m not alone with this one. </p>
<p>And a related group is the “I thought I knew what I was doing since I launched one successfuly into college (and have more than a thousand posts over the last 3 years!) but with the second it’s like waking up in a brand new world every morning.”</p>
<p>Member of - “My kid is not a dumb jock club”.</p>
<p>All member of that club have to defend how their kid got into their school with lower test scores and GPAs with better FA against the parents in the “I know my kids GPA rounded to the thousandth both weighted and unweighted club”</p>
<p>Member of - “Fathers who spend their days posting on CC because their kid is now to busy at school to email or phone” (not that mine is watching).</p>
<p>Member of - “Too broke to afford a life after sending kid away to school, so I post on CC BECAUSE IT’S FREE!”</p>
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<p>Yes!! This has become my new entertainment–definately cheaper than using gas to go out anywhere and less than renting movies.</p>
<p>I will add my membership to the “freebie group” as well.</p>
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<p>OH YES. Count me in. (I have way over 1000 posts my profile notwithstanding, they are just all in the cafe.)</p>
<p>It’s FREE? What are you people talking about? Since we changed over to the new format I have been sending $19.95 a month through a paypal account to an address at ClaremontMcKenna.edu. Haven’t y’all?</p>
<p>hmmmmmmmmmm. Hey, wait a minute. xxxxxig-GIIIIII!!! You got some 'splaining to do. ;)</p>
<p>Definitely a member of the “I couldn’t get into my alma mater today” group. How about the Envious Parent: “All these colleges look so dam* good my kid would be lucky to spend four years at any of them - and why does he get to go and not me?”</p>
<p>Cur:</p>
<p>Are you subsidizing Xiggi’s college career? Didn’t you know he literally got a free ride? And whassat about paypal?</p>
<p>He said I owed . I paid. He can be very convincing. :eek:</p>
<p>And I think the correct amount is “full-ride plus”. All of us will end up paying xig one day. I just started early it seems. 
(JK)</p>
<p>I’ll ante up for ‘Passion is a 4-letter Word’ and ‘ECs aren’t Extra Anymore’</p>
<p>OK, I guess I’m going to have to admit to the “living vicariously through my child” archetype. Any others here?</p>
<p>Oh, we also have the seasonal Fear of Failure to Launch archetype:</p>
<p>This individual can be found wringing hands 6 hours before ETD for Freshman Orientation due to the future freshman not having packed one stitch of clothing, nor even having been seen around the homefront for the last 92 hours.</p>
<p>If we’re all still here in 10 years, we’ll have the <em>real</em> Failure to Launch archetype to contend with. Oh god.</p>