<p>^^ahaha I’m Korean-American (it’s complicated… this would be the easiest way to describe me… xD) but I’m in love with all of East Asian, not just Japan. 
It just turns out that Japan has many universities with English degrees. :)</p>
<p>^lol I guess it’s not that rare on CC. xD</p>
<p>Obsessed since the beginning of 9th grade. Going into 10th and already created my list for where I’m applying to.</p>
<p>Not obsessed but I’m just concerned about my future. I want to make certain that I am going places.</p>
<p>rayna: lol I’ve done that plenty. Trust me its better that you know two years in advance than two mothns before classes begin</p>
<p>Rising senior right now, started looking around this site sophomore year. I’m pretty well-versed in all things college admissions/applications. I’m like a college application counselor for my friends. 
Now, I’m taking everything I learned and writing a guide for underclassmen.</p>
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<p>Too much, kid. Take it from someone who knows. By the time you’re my age, you’ll be so burned out and tired of it all. It’s exhausting and stressful and once it gets in your head, you will never ever forget it and you will never ever be able to get it out it. Every grade will be the biggest deal in the world and you’ll be constantly stressed. It’s terribly unhealthy. Please don’t do this to yourself. I’m totally serious. You’re freaking 12…this really scares me and I really don’t want this for you.</p>
<p>Going to be a junior in September. Wasn’t doing anything this summer, got to thinking about college, googled a couple of stuff. Caught the fever. Collegefever. I’m doomed to spending hours on CC now x)</p>
<p>hhahahah thanks for the input guys. glad i’m not alone. But I only actually found out about CC in like May. So I’m somewhat new here. It’s interesting how obsessed college can get. I guess I just can’t wait to be independent!</p>
<p>I can agree, since the beginning of junior year I have been reading about and visiting colleges and now I want high school to just be done, but my older brother keeps telling me not to wish it away because you’ll miss it when it’s gone</p>
<p>Anyone else not give a **** about college until a year ago? That was my case…</p>
<p>Everyone who plans on going to college gets obsessed with it at some point during their 13 years of free education. My obsession hit me sophomore year, and gave way to panic during my senior and junior years. After applications were turned in, though, I just sort of gave up because I was emotionally and mentally drained from two and a half years of obsessive thinking. All that thinking about college, comparing yourself to the national standards (or everyone else on CC) and worrying about if you get in or not, and how life will be is exhausting and it makes you want to just think about something else.
Now I’m not so much obsessed as super excited, as freshman year starts in September for me in UC Irvine. For all you guys still in freshman/soph year in high school, I advise that you just don’t think about it that hard. It truly is draining to be thinking about such a large transition in your life for so long.</p>
<p>I became “obsessed” (more like interested or curious) after I found out that one of my dad’s co-workers went to Columbia. I knew it was an Ivy League, but I started researching it, and eventually that led me here at the end of eighth grade. I didn’t make an account until a month or so ago, though, cause I felt it would be too premature.</p>
<p>College looks pretty awesome and I have obsessive tendencies, so yes, I’m a mite fixated on my university years. =p I’ve got two test prep books (SAT and AP US History), three monstrously large books listing colleges, and a detailed table in Excel with all sorts of wacky data like locations and SAT ranges. I’ve had an account here for a few months. I’m going into junior year now, so I suppose it’s good I’ve gotten an early start.</p>
<p>I was obsessed about colleges before.
Now that I have my list and my dream school and know what I wanna do in college, my obsession is over.
I just want this year to be the best of my high school life (:</p>
<p>As far as CC posters go I started getting interested in college relatively “late” at the beginning of sophomore year.
I’m going into senior year now. I’ve literally spent thousands of hours on the entire process. And now I know the system inside and out and am absolutely prepared for anything.</p>
<p>And yeah, I agree with crfcaio- now that all the work has been done, and all that’s left is to actually submit the application, a strange calm pervades me. I’m not worried a bit. I did enough worrying since sophomore year.</p>
<p>I didnt start caring about college until last summer. And now I’m a rising senior and I cant wait for it!!</p>
<p>After I found out in Junior year that my long-deceased grandfather had gone to Columbia and Harvard… I got a little more interested. I had been planning on just going to UCincinnati or maybe Ohio State, but I suddenly got more into researching what I really wanted and ended up finding the perfect undergrad school for me :)</p>
<p>hahaha yeah. does anyone find college searching and stuff fun? Does anyone else’s family get super annoyed when you constantly talk about college…?</p>
<p>Definitely and unfortunately. The thought of the stuff I “need to do” to get into college is overwhelming and it stressed me out way too much. I have a hundred things to do and only a few days to do it… and procrastinating as a method of coping isn’t really working.</p>
<p>Oh, and the high-expectations parents don’t help much either.</p>
<p>I have been obsessed for far too long if you want my opinion. I almost feel like I should just be in college already.</p>