<p>do it, try your best.</p>
<p>OK - I am a middle-aged father with children in various stages of college admissions.</p>
<p>I like classic rock, corny jokes and going to bed before 10pm. I wear my pants in a way that prevents my underwear from showing. I don’t mind wearing socks with flip-flops when I get the newspaper or pick my kids up from school. I worry about my blood pressure, cholesterol and fiber intake. I remember rotary dial phones, card catalogs at the library and smoking on airplanes.</p>
<p>If that doesn’t convince you that I’m not an insecure high school kid, then I don’t know what will.</p>
<p>^ Ditto here!</p>
<p>I am a soon-to-be graduate student pursuing a MSc in physics (cosmology is my field of interest) who didn’t live with that sort of stress for undergraduate applications. (I could have gotten into any undergraduate physics program within my parents’ budget and commuting constraints so I really had to apply to just one)</p>
<p>@rmldad</p>
<p>See, I’m the same but I am an insecure teenager with an overbearing parent.
so</p>
<p>@ifhgsfj</p>
<p>I refuse to believe that any teenager cares about dietary fiber or knows what a card catalog is. Then again, if you do, maybe we can get together sometime and talk about how easy kids have it today (and I will remind you to thank your overbearing parent)…</p>
<p>I only care about fiber because you have to subtract the number of grams of fiber from the number of grams of carbohydrates that food has to get it’s “net carbohydrate” amount. The school library back in elementary school had card catalogs.</p>
<p>yeah I don’t get out much</p>
<p>So when you buy your hot red convertible, will it be a “Rebel without a cause” convertible, or have you moved straight to your mid-life crisis convertible?</p>
<p>Hopefully you don’t have to deal with male pattern baldness yet (avoid Rogaine unless you want a man-sweater) or prostate exams.</p>