<p>When you tell your kid to get off the computer unless he is doing homework because you NEED to use the computer.</p>
<p>When you offer to research potential colleges for a friend’s child just because, well, you can.</p>
<p>Churchmusicmom, how about:</p>
<p>when you post here at the un-godly hour of 5:25 am.!</p>
<p>omg, Ely you need to sleep…</p>
<p>How about:</p>
<p>When you go out to dinner with your husband and are checking your email messages because the notifications for PM’s kicked back in yesterday and all the back PM’s for the past week were sent…he was not pleased!!</p>
<p>One day when I was giving a bus tour to prospective students at my university (i introduced myself as Lena from Alaska) and a parent recognized me from my CC posts. And then another day I was talking to a random friend in my dorm and they asked me if I posted on CC, because their mom had read my posts. GAHHHHHH</p>
<p>When you favorite a thread that’s not really meant for you, just because… well, you love it.</p>
<p>When you care more about your CC friend getting into their first choice college than your RL friend.</p>
<p>When you phone a CC buddy from your Hawaiian vacation to consult on problem essays!</p>
<p>…when you check CC before checking your work e-mail. You lived long enough to know that the stuff piled up in your inbox overnight will be the same old cr@p, but CC is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you’re gonna get :)</p>
<p>When you look at CC for the first time ever, thinking it will likely be the only time ever, choose your screen name on silly whim and, 585 posts later, wonder why on earth you picked yabeyabe2 instead of something nice and generic, like NJDad</p>
<p>When CC is the first thing you check every morning, right after your kids’ tweets.</p>
<p>lol yabeyabe2, and here i was thinking i picked a dumb generic name, wish i had picked one with “style”</p>
<p>This maybe a little out of place, but I found this website just recently, and I wish that my parents were as enthusiastic about my future college plans as some of you sound about your children. I love my parents dearly, but I don’t think they understand the importance of college XD.</p>
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Exactly! :)</p>
<p>^^And some of them are nuts! :D</p>
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<p>Hey now!..</p>
<p>Uber_cast- We will happily cyber-adopt you for the admissions process. I also had uninvolved parents growing up, and always envied the kids who had great parental support. </p>
<p>You will come out of the process stronger and more independent than some overly-coached kids, and be more adept at maneuvering through adult life.</p>
<p>Mommusic- We’re not nutty, we’re proteiny, thus chock full of essential acids…</p>
<p>When we all rallied all around LatetoSchol as she was dying; She was a beautful soul and I felt blessed to have known her - even if it was not IRL. I cried when she passed, and worried about the daughter left behind. And always wonder LatetoSchool’s real name was. I always think of her when I see red high heels.</p>
<p>I know I’m addicted to CC
when I’m going on CC to “take a break” after staying up at 3 am to study for my test the next day</p>
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<p>Ah, eddieodessa…exactly! Latetoschool’s struggle and her bravery and her eventual victory over that disease as it was “played out” through CC was, IMO, a wonderful example of the very best of what this community can do and be. I cried as well and will always regret not having the honor of knowing LTS IRL.</p>
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<p>Umm, yep. I tend to have early am headaches and can’t sleep, so I peruse the interweb while I wait for the meds to kick in! :)</p>
<p>When you have no earthly reason to be here anymore (at least not for a few more years) and your middle schooler rests her chin on your shoulder every night, and presses her still chubby cheek up against yours and sighs and says, “So, how are all of your virtual friends tonight?”</p>
<p>And I’m more of a lurker at <150 posts. But I have to admit lurking an awful lot.</p>