<p>My father is pretty clueless about my college stuff/life in general, but my mother is a helicopter parent. I’m just glad she’s no good at using the computer.</p>
<p>“I think it’s kind of funny how NONE of the children of these parents like to party. They’re all studious kids who would prefer the outdoors or normal activities like going to the movies on the weekend.”</p>
<p>Wow…
I just noticed that. L0L</p>
<p>my parents are pretty oblivious but want me to get good grades, take APs, volunteer, etc. but when it comes to the college process, it’s gonna be 100% me.</p>
<p>Anyone else feel a little stupid if they only got accepted to schools that would be considered below the level that their parents (or relatives) went to.</p>
<p>Like for instance, both my parents went to NYU (my father went to Stern), and my mother went to an Ivy for graduate school. My aunt went to an Ivy for graduate school, and my grandfather got his doctorate from an Ivy. And I’m going to… a State University.</p>
<p>I think I’m actually the first person in my family that will attend a public university. :(</p>
<p>^Awww <em>hugs</em>
No public universities would have accepted my grandparents, I don’t think, nor my great-great grandmother, who also went to college. So they all went to fancy shmancy HBCUs, which I thought was cool when I was little, but everyone at CC would probably die before going to any of those places.
So, maybe if I went to a public uni, it would in some ways be a step forward! Except that my mother went to an Ivy. Grrrr!</p>
<p>^^Indian public university=win. It’s not too bad :)</p>
<p>The parents in the Parent Cafe are the types of parent that I don’t want to be. Luckily my dad can only speak limited English, otherwise he’d be all over that forum. I hate helicopter parents.</p>
<p>And reading the politics and election forum is hilarious. 90% of the parents there are total idiots who think Obama is some socialist nazi. I never put a cohesive effort into any of my posts there since they will fall upon deaf ears. I just post inflammatory topics and ■■■■■.</p>
<p>^Whoa…there’s a politics and election forum!!! Why didn’t I know about this? I about to be all up in that.</p>
<p>Edit: I lol’d so hard at the first couple of thread titles: White Pride March, Is this the Soviet Union?, Analysis of Constitutional Claims, What’s next in forced insurance, Liberal Hypocrites: Whining Now, Yet Silent When Conservatives Threatened or Attacked.</p>
<p>They think they know us and they tend to get into fight in the parent forum. lol</p>
<p>Yeah, I read through some of the Election and Politics Sub-forum. It honestly disgusts me. They’re even worse than we are when it comes to politics (flaming and such).</p>
<p>I’ve been on this site for quite a while and I just recently figured out what “DD” and “DS” mean. I don’t get the point.</p>
<p>Neither do I… how hard is it to write it out?</p>
<p>I think D/S/H/W have been in use for so long that any attempt to write them out would just look weird to them.</p>
<p>Oh, and my personal favorite…</p>
<p>In a lot of cases instead of saying “My son got into Harvard” or “My daughter got into Yale but not into Brown” or whatever, they say “WE got into Harvard” or “WE got deferred from Stanford etc.” It’s called being way too involved.</p>
<p>What does “DD” or “DS” mean? I know what D or S mean but I couldn’t figure that out.</p>
<p>dear/darling/d%#$…</p>
<p>not-random color for 23 seconds</p>
<p>^ DS = Dear son, DD = Dear daughter.</p>
<p>Ah. That’s obnoxious.</p>
<p>^^Ohhhhhh! I could never figure that out!</p>
<p>lol @ parents</p>