<p>I started lurking back in 99/00. I’m not quite sure since it was so long ago. I do remember one of my first posts was answered by Shennie:) So I know she’s been on for longer than I! I had a different username which I lost along the way. The moderators used to answer many of the questions (Dave Barry? and someone else).</p>
<p>I started reading the boards in the beginning of 2002 but didn’t post for a long while.</p>
<p>I hear from Twinkletoes still - she is doing fine, survived her first semester and trying to pick classes for next semester. She sounds very happy.</p>
<p>Wow, 99, 00 and 02, now that’s ancient!</p>
<p>(Sorry didn’t see the post clearly, obviously she is a freshman).</p>
<p>Momof2WildPeruvians, I need to find a little more balance and only log into CC 2-3 times a day. Now that D is out in college, I figure a) I like the community and b) it’s a little bit like an electronic form of community service. Funny what calls one…for instance, you’d never find me doing a beach clean-up day or something like that…</p>
<p>I started lurking in late 2003 when I did a google search to get information about Musical Theater colleges for my then junior daughter. I actually posted for the first time in June of 2004 when the college selection process started getting serious. I can’t imagine how we would have gotten by without the wealth of info and wisdom we have gotten from CC, not to mention the support when the stress gets high and the nerves frazzled! I won’t have a reason to post on CC once my d goes to college…at least not for a while…because my s is only 12! I will probably continue to check in though. It really is quite addictive!</p>
<p>I think it was January of last year, after I googled PSAT scores</p>
<p>A google search in the summer of 2003. I was looking for the cut off scores for the PSAT in New Jersey. My first real interation was when I asked for advise about my son’s decision to leave high school a year early. If I remember correctly TheDad responded to that post.</p>
<p>I am now a repeat offender. My son is a college sophomore now but I have a HS Junior ready to take the plunge. Wish me luck…</p>
<p>what do you do for the countdown that you have referred to?</p>
<p>Artiesdad,
Wow, you finally came out of the closet after lurking for a year and a half!</p>
<p>This thread reminds me of an AA meeting.
Hello, my name is____________, and I have been addicted to this message board for two years now.</p>
<p>I found this forum through a google search regarding college stuff a little over a year ago. I didn’t post until fairly recently. I may outlast you all (except jamimom!) because I have five younger than my son who’s applying now–and my youngest is only six! ~berurah</p>
<p>late 2002, when my son was a sophomore. I think I got routed over here because of a reference to CC on the Princeton Review board, where I clearly did not belong. I’ve really enjoyed the community, and like The Dad and some of the rest of you, will probably continue to check in even when my son starts college in the fall.</p>
<p>Speaking of addictions, I told my mom about this site last month and she said “Oh, I want to be a lurker!” She’d never been on an internet forum before. She signed on one day over the winter holidays. I talked to her that day at around 11 a.m. when she logged on. Next I heard from her was when she called me at 7 p.m. and said, “I love this site. Did you read the one about…” She had been on it for 8 straight hours! I said “Mom, you need to get up from your computer!” She read the entire EA decisions thread – probably took 2 hours alone! – and then started visiting all the threads of schools my S is applying to and giving us opinions on whether S would fit in with the kids there. I told her she needed to get a life and then rethought that and told her to get the screen name “grandmomof2inca” and join the fun. But she just wanted to lurk. My dad and H – and really my S, too – think we are both crazy… but I love this place.</p>
<p>I found this site in the autumn of 2004, when it showed up as a link on Lost in Education Translation which is supposed to help British students figure out American university procedures. I was trying to help D’s British friends who wanted info, and wound up learning more than I knew there was to learn! I had mistakenly thought we knew what we were doing. We could have saved money on applications if we had known the different aspects of college that are all dealt with here. I am so grateful for the help you knowledgeable parents have provided and, of course, I’m addicted.</p>
<p>Late spring 2003 through a google search. I do little but lurk – still it is enormously addictive. </p>
<p>I credit CC with saving my marriage. 
All through the interminable decision process last year, I poured my neurosis into lurking and off-list ranting. Both my H and D thought I was “way too OCD” (D’s terminology). Many thanks to all of you for the free therapy sessions.</p>
<p>I can’t remember exactly how I arrived, but it was in late 2003. Spent a while just absorbing information (a nicer term than lurking) and I think began posting an occasional comment in Spring 2004. I am still around because (a) there is still useful information to be gained vis-a-vis my freshman S, (b) I can be helpful in dealing with questions about the legal profession, and (c) you see, I have this habit …</p>
<p>Hey TheDad, was it you who had the song last year counting us down to April 1?</p>
<p>Spring 2003… and stuck here since. </p>
<p>Twinkle, for those of you wondering, is doing well. She got solid grades and is adjusting well (as happy and extroverted kinds do). Yay!</p>
<p>song?? countdown?? this sounds like it could be fun. How long until we can start??</p>
<p>I think that theDad did it because we were getting a little crazy in march and the song “read” like the 12 days of christmas, and I for one looked forward to the next installment. It may now have to est upon the creativity of some lucky 09 parent.</p>
<p>OK, I guess we’ll have to wait for that too!! Too bad the song wasn’t the 60 days of Christmas.</p>