<p>When you meet a kid going to a small, far-away school and you blurt out “Oh, I know someone who goes to school there!”. The real-life student naturally asks who it is, and you suddenly realize that you only know him as "ScreenName"s DS2. Yes, another of your imaginary friends…</p>
<p>I just burned half of my lunch and ate the other half because I am having too much fun reading this thread.</p>
<p>I am very greatful. I learned so much from here, gotten so much help and have lots of fun just lurking.</p>
<p>You hope your kid will consider a transfer just so you can investigate more schools and “talk” to more parents thru cc…</p>
<p>When you look at the college app and it asks for how you heard about them. They list college fairs, music teachers, magazines, etc and you wonder why CC is not one of the choices. So you write it in.</p>
<p>You know you’re addicted to CC when you’ve:</p>
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<li>Met a girl here and dated her for almost 2 years</li>
<li>Joined CC nearly 5-6 years ago and is still around even after graduating college</li>
<li>Replying to a thread like this</li>
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<p><— guilty as charged. </p>
<p>Applicannot and Yurtle–hiya! :D</p>
<p>This thread is so much fun. I don’t wander into the Cafe much.</p>
<p>Toledo, I love that story so much I hope it’s true!</p>
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<p>You have no problem not telling your noncyber friends where your child applied ED, but feel guilty for not telling your CC friends</p>
<p>When you’re here seven years after you joined and it’s been almost 18 months since your D graduated from college and any grad school plans are strictly under her own auspices without any help from you, thank you very much.</p>
<p>There are still a few posters around who antedated me. But when I got there, the rocks were still cooling and I remember when the site passed the 50,000 post mark, total.</p>
<p>Your 14-year-old daughter says to you (last night), “Arghhhh how can you spend so much time on that website? I can’t imagine anything more boring than talking to a bunch of boring people about boring such things.”</p>
<p>And you know in 4 short years she will be begging you for the information you have learned on this website. Last laugh and all :D</p>
<p>And you constantly quote cc to your senior son. And…he laughs… but you also notice how attentively he listens… ;)</p>
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<p>Obviously she hasn’t read any of the cat threads!</p>
<p>When you save big bucks on a Hawaiian vacation thanks to tips on “your good buy of the day” thread and your DH says “I’ll never make fun of CC again.”</p>
<p>When you read the new Pell regs you haven’t had a chance to get to yet during lunch just so you can answer a question about year-round Pell for a college freshman you don’t even know.</p>
<p>When you wake up in the morning, fix a cup of coffee, and sit down to read the newest posts on CC - and you do this EVERY morning. </p>
<p>When you check CC every night before you go to bed - just in case you missed something during your morning check.</p>
<p>When you read every single post on a thread even though there are 112 of them :)</p>
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<p>Well, with some threads, 85 of those 112 posts will be entertaining or educational or both… </p>
<p>No, I don’t have a problem. I can quit any time…</p>
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<p>Or when you receive many strange looks upon telling people that you’re considering retaking an 1800. “But you’re guaranteed to get into Harvard! I wish I could be as smart as that!”</p>
<p>When you “prefer” to post on CC than speak to your counselor at school. :D</p>
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<p>So true! So very true.</p>
<p>When you keep reloading the individual forum pages to see if any new and interesting posts have popped up.</p>
<p>I am strangely attracted to those posts with “my kid is failing <insert thing=”" kid=“” is=“” failing=“” here=“”>" in the title.</insert></p>
<p>I love CC because I can come here and worry about a 34 act score, and people don’t just think i’m bragging. They will provide actual advice, not just “you’ll get in anywhere”</p>
<p>When you learn more about what’s happening at your alma mater from CC than from the college newsletter. (Check out the Harvey Mudd thread to learn about the latest outstanding prank!)</p>