<p>When you go to a convocation and cc was mentioned in a parents seminar and you immediately raised your hand…</p>
<p>I haven’t been here long, but I assimilate quickly. So…
-when I relay things I’ve read enough times for my family to ask 'oh, how’s ‘insert user name’ doing? What happened with ‘insert topic here’.
-I have a friend who is a college prof and hs teacher who has asked me for help in getting her hooked up to this website when her daughter is ready. :). Have to say that felt good, not in a bad way, but that I could possibly offer something of value to someone who has more degrees you can imagine while I’m a SAHM.
-being able to disagree with a member on a topic on one thread and realize you are on the same page on another. Finding respect in members you recognize. </p>
<p>Maybe I’m OT and these are things I treasure as opposed to when I’ve been here too long. </p>
<p>Last night I was reminded on the what’s for dinner thread how many just pick stuff from the garden. I can’t have a garden because of HOA…but I do get Wegmans with local produce. It’s a reminder how vastly different our lives are, and yet we come together for a common goal. Information, support, and recipes!</p>
<p>Peace :)</p>
<p>…when you thought you knew your CC friend–what parts of the country he/she lives, or where DD/DS went to college–but then you realize the screen name was just “slightly” different and you’ve been writing to different people.</p>
<p>When you buy a mug that has “Williams Dad” written on it just because it’s your screen name.</p>
<p>When folks who joined in '08-'10 think THEY’VE been on too long. . .</p>
<p>When the kid you joined for --during his junior year of HS-- has already graduated from college. . .</p>
<p>When half your conversations with kids/spouse start with, “I read on CC. . .”</p>
<p>(I wonder if CC will still be around for my youngest kid-- HS class of 2023?)</p>
<p>When you have to reupholster the seat cushion in the computer room.</p>
<p>When you care more about advising your favorite CC athletic recruit than fertilizing your spent geraniums.</p>
<p>When you prefer the opinions (on kitchens, autos, recipes & life) in the parent cafe to neighbors’ advice.</p>
<p>When even your family suggests, “You should ask about this on cc!”</p>
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<p>It’s too late to delete my post, otherwise I would with the undetstanding that there was a length of membership required to post on this thread.</p>
<p>When I quote myself.</p>
<p>When you are responding to this and other threads instead of doing things that need doing.<br>
When all you have done all day is spend time on this site.
You don’t get to bed because…</p>
<p>Oh- that only accounts for current CC time. Even newbies can be on CC too long.</p>
<p>Regarding longevity- when you miss old posters whose kids graduated years ago.
You forget that information you gleaned is so old new posters can’t find it.
The latest crop of new posters seems young.</p>
<p>-When a family member calls it “College Crack-idential” and you really cannot argue the point. </p>
<p>-When you overhear strangers talking about their kids getting ready for college and you interupt them to recommend CC.</p>
<p>-When it no longer seems awkward to refer to your husband as Mr. PMK and your son as PMKjr.</p>
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<p>so true. …</p>
<p>Addenda. When you consider this topic, it belongs in this forum, not the cafe, and then wonder how long it will take the moderators to move it (oops, hope I didn’t alert them).</p>
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When you not only remember the thread, you remember exactly what you posted and therefore can find it in a sec:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/804933-you-know-youre-addicted-cc-when.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/804933-you-know-youre-addicted-cc-when.html</a></p>
<p>When you start believing the concept of “lesser Ivies”.</p>
<p>When a “old” poster comes back to report on things…and you’re so happy to “see” them - kind of like when you’re out shopping and run into an old dear friend you’ve lost touch with over the years…</p>
<p>When you find you have an opinion to share on almost any college or major brought up in a real life conversation. </p>
<p>The other day kids came home, had heard about X college (a place that no one in our neck of the woods would recognize), and I start on about “well they are actually quite good for a, but also you can also cross-enroll in classes over in y if you go there…and what I really like about it is…” And they have this shocked look, “how on earth do you know this mom!?”</p>
<p>When a Jeopardy category features colleges that most have never heard of and I get all the answers right. </p>
<p>When I call someone I “met” on CC but have never met IRL my best friend (we email and talk on the phone)</p>
<p>When you refer to screen names in real life.
“How do you know that? or …who told you that?”
“Well, wackymom, silverweasel and crazedharvardhopeful said so” instead of saying you learned it on a forum.</p>
<p>And you wonder why they take a step back.</p>
<p>When you hear a college mentioned in the news and you think “oh that is where so and so sent their D”</p>