“^Oh my, the PR boards. That WAS a long time ago. (When I see @Hanna , I always still think “Hanna From Chicago”. )”
Oh yes, that started in the summer of 1997! Maybe it’s not surprising that I make my living from this now. I was using all my spare time to do it for free.
I really like the breadth of knowledge here–so conveniently located and the range of ages from 20s thru 60s+ to get an interesting range of thoughts.
This is a great place for perception checking and I would love to have a Bay Area meet up in late March/early April.
My two older kids are college grads but I have one more in HS, so technically, I am still an “active” member!
CC parent cafe is my one stop forum for fashion, shopping, travel, medical and yes, college advice. Sometimes, your opinion matters more than my IRL friends (lol). I have met other CC parents whose kids also attended my kid’s college. I met another mom online who attended the same oos school that my daughter went to. She provided great advice and comfort to this nervous mom.
I migrated over from PR and Carolyn’s blog during the college search for S1. S3 is now a senior (I think) and next year the college things will be completely over. I hope I did my last FAFSA today. I can’t imagine where else I’d get my “fix” so time will tell. I too sometimes wonder when I don’t see familiar posters for a long time.
CC has been a part of my life for 8 years, The last four I have not had a kid in college. Yet I still come back here.
Sometimes I’m not on for awhile, but always come back. I read more than I post. But I’ve gotten a lot of info and help on here.
Kiddos know I’m still on here. H too. I think they just accept that it’s my thing?
Whatever happened to pizzagirl and curmudgeon?
PG was banned.
Curm has drifted away, last i heard life was good, kid got married, etc.
D’s and H know I am on CC. H asks sometimes what I am reading or what is new. Sometimes he even tells me to ask CC a question.
PizzaGirl banned? Surely you jest! I thought that she drifted away. She is very bright, yes opinionated…but most of us are. Say it ain’t so!
Both kids, now 30 and 31, graduated from their respective colleges in 2007. I came over from PR after they started college and have just never left. I got a lot of help from MariTe, I remember her fondly.
My daughter is now back in school (Portland State U) to finish up prereqs to apply to physical therapy doctorate programs (full-time student, half time worker–she’s very busy!). Quite a change from her theater/lit major! I haven’t started searching CC for PT program info but will start soon… although she’s doing an awesome job without me. Imagine that!
I call CC “crack” which I got from a long time poster, but I don’t remember who! My hubby teasingly asks me if I’m on crack when I’m reading on the computer. I recognize almost all of your screen names 
My kids are all out of college; the youngest one is currently applying to grad school.
Wow, thank you for that information, romani, I had no idea. Sometimes I worry if I haven’t seen posts from someone for a long time, I wonder if they are well, or if something bad has happened to them. I am afraid to ask…sad about idad 
In this iteration of the forum,a poster could be temporarily or permanently banned and they’d have the same. “Banned” on their avatar. And, when they are banned, their avatar goes back to the standard cc logo if they had replaced it with their own personalized one. But if they are temporarily banned… they’ll be baaaack!!
Aha! Good to know!
ETA: I am still off-CC friends with several people I met in the high school forum here. We’re now mostly in PhD programs or they’re making more money right now than I ever will 
My kid begged me to get off CC when he was in boarding school because everyone on campus knew my handle and who my kid was. I had totally outed him freshman year. He used to hate it when one of his friends would tell him what his mom had been ranting about on CC lately. I just thought it was a hoot. So, now he’s a sophomore at West Point, and I’ve probably outed him on the service academy forum (not the CC subforum), too, but I rarely post there, and he’s too busy to care. That forum is not fun; it’s based on truthful and efficient answers to admissions questions. Once a question is answered (by the book/moderated by military and ex-military), the thread dies, and threads rarely exceed two pages. There is a parents forum, but those folks don’t realize that the government owns their kids and they are NOT in civilian college, but they try very hard to pretend they are. It cracks me up to watch those parents try to helicopter cadets/mids at a service academy. Anyway, I always come back to CC for real comaraderie and threads that never die.
I keep saying it’s time to move on, but I know that will never happen.
Both my kids were on CC at one point and have known I’m here since forever. I don’t go on the student or college forums much these days, since the game has changed so much since my kids applied/were in college. I have to admit I’m somewhat jaded after getting through the HS and college experience with my kids. Not sure I would always be the happy, positive parent folks want to hear from.
I just tried to PM someone whom I thought I had a warm, friendly relationship with, and I found out that the person is “ignoring” me (and therefore PMs won’t go through). I’m honestly shocked. That might be the thing that finally induces me to cut the cord from CC.
^Ouch!!!