You know you're losing it when...

Parents Forum
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<p>The pictures on the College Board website start to annoy you. Can’t they use some new ones? Or at least put the “caring mom” in a different color shirt?</p>

<p>You start to think of fin aid as “equitable distribution” in a divorce. They get the house; you get the kids. Unfair, and final.</p>

<p>You seriously consider moving to Utah so your child will be applying from an underrepresented state.</p>

<p>You rent a movie like “Winter’s Bone” and all you can think of is: I bet Ree could write a really great essay.</p>

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<p>All your stress will be over in just a few weeks or months. By next year, you’ll be writing to your college freshman kid about how he/she celebrated Halloween and what was her/his costume. My son was Blue Tele-Tubby. I don’t think he ever saw Tele-Tubbies before. </p>

<p>They learn so many new things in college! :slight_smile: Enjoy senior year!</p>

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<p>^^ Limabean…that is hilarious!</p>

<p>You know you’re losing it when… </p>

<p>-you now can speak in all the acronyms of the Common App, FAFSA, PROFILE etc websites </p>

<p>-you refer to “a friend said”…and its a cyber CC friend</p>

<p>-your speed dial on your cell has new CC friends #s and you talk way too often about apps status</p>

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<p>You know you are losing it when you’re watching “Friday Night Lights” and you start criticizing the college list of one of the characters. Everyone knows that a kid from Texas who’s in the top 8% of her class but is looking for financial aid shouldn’t be thinking about applying to a UC, how could the screenwriters be so clueless? :)</p>

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<p>SlitheyTove - yes!!! I love that show, but I too was bothered by the writers’ cluelessness about financial aid. Some of those kids would get Pell grants! Maybe SEOG’s! So apply!</p>

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<p>^^ You two are hilarious!</p>

<p>I read here on CC when a poster asked a question–a CCer reponded that the OP watche too much Gossip Girl…</p>

<p>How tv slants things…</p>

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<p>You forget that sat, act, and profile used to be verbs, and an application was something useful on your phone or computer.</p>

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<p>You know you are losing it when you can “superscore” in 5 seconds without a calculator and you have memorozed the ACT to SAt conversion chart!</p>

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<p>You know you are losing it when…
It is Halloween night, your team is playing the Super Bowl winner, and you are on CC!</p>

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<p>When your kid is already in college and the next one isn’t close to applying and you are still hooked on CC.</p>

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<p>Or when both your kids already graduated from college more than 2 years ago and this is STILL one of your favorite websites :)</p>

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<p>funny posts. am sure enjoying them.</p>

<p>you know you are losing it around your house when the youngest of 3, just a h.s. freshman, is already perusing college websites and determining what kind of on campus housing would be acceptable to her…lol !</p>

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<p>More “Friday Night Lights” college madness: a mother telling her daughter that no, she cannot go on an overnight trip unless she has three early decision acceptances. No, no, no, that’s EA, not ED!!! Sheesh!</p>

<p>I told this to D1, who just rolled her eyes and laughed.</p>

<p>It makes me wonder how many football-related howlers I’m missing. Ignorance is bliss. :)</p>

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<p>You know you are losing it when you almost wish that your daughter had endured more hardship so she could write more interesting essays.</p>