<p>I’m a lurker around here. Actually, I was active over in the Musical Theater thread while my daughter was going through auditions. She’s a freshman in college now. I still throw out comments now and then over there. But for the most part, I lurk.</p>
<p>I’ve been here since summer or fall of 2003. (I can’t remember if I started before or after my daughter went to the CMU Pre-College program.) I found this place after punching for “CMU Pre-College”. And once I started reading, I got totally hooked!</p>
<p>Why am I stil here? Partly to pay back some of the wonderful advice I’ve gotten. And partly because I have a son that’s a sophomore who is NOT going Musical Theater. And partly because you never know when someone will say “Hey, does anyone know anything about Millikin University in Decatur, IL?” Besides, it’s better than sweeping the floor again . . .</p>
<p>It was TheDad when our Counting Down Thread went into 4 sections </p>
<p>Not much movement on this thread today. </p>
<p>Three days to go. (Actually, 83 hours by my index but it’s already the new “day” on the board and it will be well along before I’m up and coherent in the morning.) </p>
<p>(Thanks, Txtaximom, for joining in the “Fi-i-i-ive Websiste PINs!”) </p>
<p>On the eleventh day of Waiting the College sent to D: </p>
<p>Eleven scholarships
Ten housing forms
Nine parking permits
Eight gushing e-mails
Seven profs a-teaching
Six frat boys drinking
Fi-i-i-ve Website PINs
Four college posters
Three bumperstickers
Two glossy viewbooks
And a postcard saying “Like-ly!” </p>
<p>Clearly the writer is getting delusional with wish-fulfillment fantasies. </p>
<p>I’ve heard ripples that the birds are already in the air with respect to Stanford, the EA Deferrals are hearing yea or nay. </p>
<p>Okay, this is the last verse. </p>
<p>On the twelfth day of Waiting the College sent to D: </p>
<p>Twelve “You got in’s!”
Eleven scholarships
Ten housing forms
Nine parking permits
Eight gushing e-mails
Seven profs a-teaching
Six frat boys drinking
Fi-i-i-ve Website PINs
Four college posters
Three bumperstickers
Two glossy viewbooks
And a postcard saying “Like-ly!” </p>
<p>Here is the link, we were crazy nervous parents, but hey the things you do to pass the time</p>
<p>Also late 2003 when my son was applying to colleges. I’ve lurked a lot. Usually whenever I know the answer to something or have insight to share, somebody’s already said it. I keep learning a lot. I have two in highschool.</p>
<p>I’m another PR board refugee. I was active on that board back when Dave Berry was moderator there. When Dave left the whole board became cesspool. That was about the time my d had finished her selection process so I just lurked around this neighborhood. I still mostly lurk, but jump into the fray from time to time.</p>
<p>I’ve lurked a lot – first on Princeton Review and then here when PR had a reference to CC. So that was probably spring 2002 after kid #2 had been accepted ED. I knew absolutely nothing when kid #1 was applying in late 90’s. I’ve learned a lot and esp appreciate the words of wisdom from jamimom and others who’ve been through a lot with their kids. Kid #3 now is a high school junior. But #2 and #3 sure have burned me out with their scrapes and escapades.</p>
<p>I am a relative new-comer, having found this site in the middle of last summer. It was nice to find people who had actually heard of the college my daughter had just graduated from, and I have a senior son and junior son doing the college thing presently. Thinking about giving it up for Lent but only if Easter is before April 1!!</p>
<p>Late 2003 for me, looking for PSAT cut off information. It is nice to have other people (virtually) around during the long wait until April. I am pretty much convinced that, short of going back in time and shaking better grades out of my son, we have done just about everything we could for college admissions. </p>
<p>One of the reasons I stay is that most folks here understand obscure references and logical leaps of several steps each.</p>
<p>Spring 2004, (I was Mjcps), changed name with new forum. </p>
<p>I came here looking for National Merit info when I realized that we hadn’t saved enough for college for our d. Became addicted quickly and now I just stop by once in a while to check on a few specific college sites.</p>
<p>Story is pretty similar to others-- Found it last year-- though I don’t recall as wellas others what link led me to it. Lurked for a long time last year, followed the kids applying to the school my s. was applying to. I saw that the incoming frosh were setting up a yahoogroups site to get to know each other, and I got my s. directed to that. It turned out to be a great way for him to meet others. We even found a girl who is from our home city but happened to be in boarding school up north. thye have become good friends. I didn’t post on CC until he started school this August, and tghen stayed only with info related to his college. The new format took a little getting used to, it is great and it was then that I began to venture out. CC seems to have gotten quite large, and I cann’t keep up with all the names, locations and schools. The “where are you from” thread was very helpful. Maybe we can start a "name, school (for self, s. and/or d.) and home location. That’d really help!-- Could someone let me know if it has already been done before I start a new one?</p>
<p>I was another transferreee from the PR board, I think in late 2002 or early 2003. My husband says, “Are you still hanging around that college chatsite? DD is already in college.” It’s addictive, and I have a sophmore son coming up!!!</p>
<p>I found the board while googling for info. I believe it was about the SATs. I initially lurked from last spring until I found the thread on the Barnard board about “favorite figure from literature”. My daughters have seen Pride and Prejudice about 100 times (unfortunately I’m not exaggerating). When I saw that TheDad had posted that Jane and Elizabeth’s father was really the main character of the novel, I knew I had found a home. “These are my people” I am the only addict in our household.<br>
I, too, have found the activity on the board greatly decreased since the deadlines. I’m glad the parents carry on.</p>
<p>Fall of 2003-sometime before UC apps were due. Googgling for Nat’s Hispanic Scholars. Many people helped with the stress of auditions for son. Hautbois especially-wonder how she is, where her student went and how her daughter is at UCI. Stay because it is addictive and I read because I am supposed to take mini wrist rests at work. Son is an only child so no more children to stress over college applications.</p>
<p>Hi. My name is Editrix, and I have a problem.</p>
<p>It started out innocently enough, in the winter of 2003. My daughter was a HS junior, and when her school announced that it was abolishing class rank, I stumbled across CC in the course of researching the issue. </p>
<p>At first, I was only curious, experimenting. I didn’t come here often–maybe once a month to see what was going on. It wasn’t until late 2003, when my daughter was working on applications, that I became a hardcore user, logging on at least several times a week and often several times a day. Even then I was only lurking. I never posted. I thought I could control it.</p>
<p>But lurking was a gateway for me, which eventually led to posting. Now it’s hard for me to go a day without CC. It’s affecting my sleep, my family (“are you on CC again”??), my work (that office computer is just too tempting). I just don’t know where it is all going to end.</p>
Besides, it’s better than sweeping the floor again . . .</p>