Do You Have a CC Goal?

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<p>Happy 500th plus plus to Yemaya who achieved this in record time…</p>

<p>My goal, to be well below 500 posts by the time my son has been accepted, hopefully had a decision or two to make, with my having happily notified the kind people here of his intended location (in the hopes to meet one or two of you at an orientation next year!)…</p>

<p>And then, to put the whole college thing to bed for 7 years before I have to think about it again!!! My daughter and I are touring amusement parks, not colleges, this summer…I need to rest up!</p>

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<p>My CC Goal was to get information to help my son find (for his interests, personality, and talents) the right program in the right college at the right price.</p>

<p>As far as I’m concerned: Mission Accomplished, even though that phrase now has some baggage associated with it.</p>

<p>So why do I hang around here when the major goal is achieved? Well, I always have some questions (meal plan, etc), but the main reason is that I’ve found that the parents on here are great people and I enjoy keeping in touch.</p>

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<p>My goal is to hang around till April decisions because I am rooting for some kids! I am on pins and needles about some posters / posters children. Hopefully, I will bow out gracefully then. This site can be a time drain, & I do too much email for work already. I may, however, pop back in in the fall to hear about how the kids are doing in their respective places. It’s like a soap opera and I am going to want to find out the “end.” </p>

<p>I discovered CC in Oct '04, and I am already seeing the same questions & conversations cycle round again… Right & proper that new people will come and explore all the perennial issues. </p>

<p>Does anyone know at whether CC will archive everything at a certain point and re-start the cycle? Seems like that’s what they did prior to my joining but I don’t know if that was a one time thing or an annual thing.</p>

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<p>I have had a cc goal of reducing my ave. #posts/day ever since yemaya pointed out my mid-Feb. surge, thus outing my addictive behavior. Not sure if I’m succeeding. Will be hanging around for the egg crate/moving in etc. discussions. And, on some of the cafe threads, I get my daily endorphin fix. Laughs=longer life expectancy.</p>

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<p>I am here through April decisions. I have to admit, I’ve been quite surprised at how many parents are still here long after their kids are in college. Some seem to be involved in their kid’s colleges and know more about these schools than a lot of students do. Parent’s who clearly read the campus newspapers daily (!!), know every detail about the school and talk about professors by name. I often wonder if their kids know and what they think.</p>

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<p>As others have said, I’m here in anticipation of the April celebration…and the XLong sheets discussion.</p>

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<p>My original goal was to help my sister, who is currently a senior. When I had 52 posts, I wanted to get to 200 by the end of the year! ;)</p>

<p>Now I just enjoy hangin’ out with the parents…:o</p>

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<p>P.S. And trying to catch up with jmmom while simultaneously letting everyone know about her high posts per day average!</p>

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<p>WOOHOO, jmmom! I’m ahead of you!</p>

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<p>I became a member on February 13 at 12:43 AM. This is my 536th post! 14.75 posts/day since reaching member status, by my count! :o</p>

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<p>I was thinking about this question, “what is my CC goal?” while on another thread and had a minor epihany that CC lets me share my parenting experience, both in how we got the first child successfully settled in college…along with current thoughts on parenting for folks that are going thru it for their first time…and doing that makes my connection to my “away” son seem more real. He is away, he doesn’t really want a constant, steady dialog with us… very happy with new friends etc, which is as it should be. By lurking and posting here, I still get to be his parent…or just a parent. It is sort of silly…I don’t know who any of you are, but I feel like I do…and the handles that everyone uses are sooo funny. Curmudgeon, digmedia, all the different Dads, NJDad, NEDad, InterestedDad, and the different Moms, SBMom, JMMom, JamiMom, Momsdream, the “russian” Soozievt…you are all like characters in a book where one imagines what the person looks like etc…</p>

<p>More importantly, you all were helpful to me by your presence here, so I hope that someone gets benefit out of my posts. I have vicariously enjoyed the December ED/EA posts, the joy of receiving the likely letter on the Dartmouth board… eventually I suspect the fun will fade as the posters continue to turnover…that’s ok cause this years crop will hang around next year just like I am now… if I am still here after my current 8th grader graduates from college, then I might ask for your help in weaning off the board. But, I have time before I need to be prohibited!</p>

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Thank you maineparent for a “feelgood” post. I think you have a real insight here in your epiphany. Even w S still at home, he doesn’t want the direct-connect with his parent, so that is probably part of why I am here too. That plus the addiction :o.</p>

<p>yemaya - my posts are almost down to under 9.0 per day, which is my interim goal. See how I added this note without creating another post? I am on to you. :D</p>

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<p>jmmom- Good job! I have now passed you (even though you reached the member level first). I can used your post count to measure mine. If I am ahead of you, I need to stop posting. I should not have written this message. It has brought my post count up without being useful.</p>

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<p>My goal? To brag about my kid and myself, subtlety of course.</p>

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<p>my goals

  1. to glean as much of the flavor (nonstatistical) side of the colleges.
  2. to talk to, in the digital sense, and more importantly listen to a number of people around the country engaged in the same process.</p>

<p>After becoming addicted my goals shifted to learning how to make the colors change and the little emoticons.</p>

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<p>Well, since my D and I gave up our All My Children Addiction a couple of years ago, this forum became our new soap opera obsession. Both of us lurked during her senior year last year (her friends were posting and she wouldn’t stand for my incriminating her). Now that she is launched, I have her permission to blah, blah, blah away. This year’s soap operas are just as addicting. The recent “two-parter” (04 student update) by Evil Robot and the success he’s had at Vandy was a terrific read.</p>

<p>What I tell my H to justify keeping my head into my laptop is that I need to keep up on current student and parent opinions (from a voluntary response group) in order to better advise the students who ask for recs. :D</p>

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<p>To be the first CC’er to show his/her dog at Westminster</p>

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<p>Woo hoo!!!
Goal implies there’s a CC end in sight! Can’t imagine that :wink: Actually, there’s no end to the kid issues in sight, and I will always be a mom, and so much appreciate hearing what you all have to say.</p>

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<p>As I’ve been phasing out of a/k/a retiring from HS-related activities (wrestling volunteer since 1997, volleyball volunteer since 2002, and PTO executive board member since 2001), I’ll also do the same on CC. Although a more recent subscriber than others, CC has more than met my needs but by June, it’ll be time to move on . . . unless a crisis strikes and I’ll return to the fold for support.</p>

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<p>What kind of dog do you have? We’ve been all excited around here because we have a GSP (same breed as the recent winner) named Kramer.</p>

<p>and, shameless doggie picture brag ;)</p>

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