<p>It's summer now, and I found myself increasingly addicted to CC. I think I have no life since I've been obsessed with CC. Any of you think so? I need help to get out of CC. It really makes you ultra-overanalyzing-about everything. Like those people who ask "should I retake a 2300?"</p>
<p>lol most of the "2300 retakes" are joke threads.</p>
<p>clearly, i lack a life because I can tell the difference between real and joke threads on CC.</p>
<p>if anything, after going on CC, ive become a LOT less stressed out about colleges. just go through the "Accepted" threads and look at the stats of accepted applicants...its the facts that are really lightening</p>
<p>Yah, jimbob, same here. </p>
<p>I have a certain affinity to CC, especially to the parents. They help a lot of us and are a bastion of insight. If I have to characterize CC, it is that is a fountain of information and advice that is not found anywhere else in my life. </p>
<p>I've been a member on this board for about two years, and if you look at my posts you'll notice the growth and maturity I've undergone within my years of membership. That's partly because of CC, and that growth has spilled over in other parts of my life, too. I'm more articulate and, I've become a better leader. I've found pieces of myself on this board that my real life wouldn't give me the opportunity to do. I have a life, a good one, too, and CC is part of it.</p>
<p>i just found this site today and already i've been on it for like 4 hours intermittently... it's not a good sign.</p>
<p>Yah, juliad, for a newbie, CC can be addictive. But, if you're here long enough, you'll learn to take it easy. A lot of the posts are just hype and people goofing around. The good stuff comes along gradually.</p>
<p>What "Accepted" threads are you talking about? I can't find any..</p>
<p>Go to any college forum and click "views". It should appear at the top.</p>
<p>what do you call lives? I think kids on CC are really living the REAL lives! they are pushing themselves to the max and acheiving their highest potentials, They are enjoying themselves!
sure many would say having a life would be going out w/ friends and hanging out. and i would agree on some lvls, but that's seriously a waste of time!
Kids w/ loads of EC they enjoy and do many things to enhance the community are truly the onces who have lives!</p>
<p>i know when I first started finding these forums, I was really obssesed with it. At this point, I usually just come on once or twice a day on here, maybe post once or twice wheras before, I posted multiple times. </p>
<p>At first you're hooked, but you learn how to control it. I bet when I'm in college, I probably won't even be on here hardly.</p>
<p>where is the "accepted" thread/forum?</p>
<p>There are usually accepted threads in each college's own forum. Just look around for the thread name.</p>
<p>I think some of you need to get some outside "fun" interests (photography, art, music, creative writing, sports, stand up comedy...whatever). </p>
<p>There is a reason why many college admission reps keep stressing "a well rounded applicant" - they see good SATs and GPAs and the routine "honors" stuff everyday, but all work and no play makes Joe College a very dull boy...</p>
<p>the way i figure it is, as soon as I am accepted into one of the colleges on my list, I will be free to live again. Until then, I am addicted to this because I don't want to miss the wealth of information that goes through this forum.</p>
<p>Pearl, many of us are well-rounded. We have to be for today's college admissions. If all we did was study, we would have to forget about Oberlin or Harvard or Tufts. :) </p>
<p>You may argue that we are obsessive and narrow-minded because we spend so much time on CC, that we see our lives only through the eyes of an admissions committee, only in the context of college admissions. I truly believe that our drive for higher education is a vehicle for our success. It's one of the only standards for us to measure ourselves. It grants us a context to grow, and though several of us have a distorted view of life because we are too obsessed, most of us handle admissions relatively well. </p>
<p>Regardless of how many hours we spend on an internet chat board, most of us are leaders in our community and school. We earn good grades. We stay devoted to our extracurriculars. We strive for excellence in our given area of expertise. Can I help it that competitive colleges are looking for us-type of applicants, leaders, individuals with brilliance for innovation and, we naturally gravitate to them, we naturally gravitate toward an internet forum about them. </p>
<p>Let me put it this way. We have more of a life than the pot-smokers who's only desire in life is to get high. We have a better sense of who we are than the students who only party and drink because they don't know anything else. Of course, not all of us have our act as together as I described. We all are teens in the midst of adolescence, experiencing all its tumultous hurdles. But, we're making the best for ourselves, and that's enough for any fifteen year old to want.</p>
<p>haha i'm usually up early to invest in the morning during the summertime...dude twinkle, i remember you used to post alot and there was like entire threads with your life stories on them..unless this is a different twinkletoes. Either way, yes i have no life and check this more than my own email...its sad.</p>
<p>Well, you invest...</p>
<p>"It's one of the only standards for us to measure ourselves."</p>
<p>There isn't anything wrong at all with bettering yourself, studying and having high goals. </p>
<p>But, don't be suckered into thinking that your self worth is wrapped up into what some pompous, paper pusher, admission rep has decided that you are based on what is written on a bunch of test papers and admission forms. It's not. As a matter of fact, what you are doesn't have anything at all to do with what you have accomplished. It's more about the person you have become in the process of getting there. </p>
<p>A shallow, self-centered, AH is still a shallow, self-centered AH even if he/she has a 2400 SAT.</p>
<p>"There isn't anything wrong at all with bettering yourself, studying and having high goals."</p>
<p>Exactly. You don't need to preach to me. I agree. A piece of paper doesn't measure your self-worth. I'm simply putting forth the coincidence of probability. Every year college admission committees put together amazing classes of individuals. There's a high probability that many of those individuals have a highly developed sense of self because they challenged themselves in academic and extracurriculars, they found their strengths and weakness and their loves and hates within the context of college admission. </p>
<p>Jacka$$es exist in every facet of life. Whether one did or did not do well in high school doesn't mean they are or are not a jacka$$.* What I am trying to put across is that as teenagers we need a context to grow, whether in academics, in the church, in the home, etc. The road to higher education is a context to grow, not the only one but one nonetheless. And, yes, our accomplishments don't define us, but they are landmarks to remind us of our journey toward self-discovery. Returning to the orginal question, do I think CCer have lives? Yup, most do, anyways. </p>
<p>*Excuse the language</p>
<p>I only go on CC when I go to work. I'm basically getting paid to go on CC.</p>
<p>It's possible to be a CC member and have a life, but it probably isn't a characteristic most people have on here.</p>