<p>seriously! god, im addicted to this website. its like crack for neurotic kids :)</p>
<p>My family can't understand a word I say sometimes. I'm like, "On CC we were talking about how adcoms for HYPS like to see ECs with direction..."</p>
<p>We have our own language :)</p>
<p>yes CC jargon we should say. We need a CAPCOM ;)</p>
<p>today i had another argument with my parents and i kept yelling at them and saying how they overestimate me. im like "im stupid dammit!!"</p>
<p>good stuff.
:)</p>
<p>Hilarious, whenicomearound.</p>
<p>My parents are actually surprisingly up to date with college admissions. It's sort of a win some, lose some attitude, which is great.</p>
<p>i inform them and my mom's ok with it. But my dad has some problems with harvard. I told him i didn't want to go to Harvard even if i got accepted however he insists that apply. Oh well it's his money lol.</p>
<p>When I was a 10th grader in an IB school (with only one AP course that I didn't take), I nonetheless took more AP exams than anyone else in the school. I then heard about people saying "why is this kid taking so many AP exams?" I got one 4 and am still feeling bad over it.</p>
<p>I frequently remark that "I suck at math" and am very unsatisfied with my math abilities despite the fact that I find collegeboard math ludicrously easy and am an AIME qualifier. </p>
<p>And even though I'm in college now, I still have an obsessive focus with doing research and with doing a summer program every signle summer.</p>
<p>I also developed the thought that "in the future, every action I perform must be conducive to the objective of receiving an acceptance letter from the California Institute of Technology." However, I didn't have enough self-control.</p>
<p>I used to think i was pretty smart a long time ago in middle school but not anymore. I'm just plain dumb compared to you guys. </p>
<p>When i tell people i'm stupid and my grades are really bad, they just call me an overachiever and i'm this close to saying : go on CC and you'll know what i'm talking about!!!. But then they'll think i'm even nerdier than they already think i am, so i just keep my mouth shut. </p>
<p>I don't know why but i now believe that everything i do will affect my college addmission and it's depressing.</p>
<p>LMAO shadowofanenigma...sadly me and my friends have had quite a couple of discussions on graphing calculator and I was the only ccer there. But my school is just weird.</p>
<p>lol. </p>
<p>You know you're a CCer ...</p>
<p>1.) when you check your e-mail every 10 to 20 minutes your on the internet.</p>
<p>2.)you start to feel bad for having a gpa of 3.4 to 3.8 when most people in your school would die to have that gpa. </p>
<p>3.) when at the age of 2, you knew exactly what college you were going to attend and what you were going to be. </p>
<p>4.) when you know so much about college admissions that you can give a counseling prep course to *even[i/] your guidance counselors. </p>
<p>5.) when your parents start nagging you for being on the internet too much. You tell them that your looking at college admissions. They start getting worried about you because you're either 1.) not even in high school or 2.) only a 9th or 10th grader. </p>
<p>6.) when you discover CC is hurting your chances for college than helping them because you're starting to neglect your schoolwork and staying up later in the night to visit the boards. </p>
<p>7.) when during the school year you wake up earlier in the morning or even risk arriving late for school to check CC boards. </p>
<p>8.) when your afraid to tell anyone at school or home that your obsessed with a college internet forum because they may think you have no life. </p>
<p>9.) when you start being competitive with not the people your in school with but those at CC who you don't even know. </p>
<p>10.) when you almost regret the day you found CC because now it's taking overr your life. AHHHHHHHHH</p>
<p>11.) when you plan out your entire high school career, from what classes you'll take, what clubs you'll join, etc. </p>
<p>12.) when you're trying to *create[i/] your "passion"</p>
<p>13.) when your more social and open on an anonymous internet forum with strangers than in real life. :eek: </p>
<p>14) when you have to take long periods of break from CC because you think you're become too addicted to it. </p>
<p>15) when you start wishing you could meet some of the CC users in real life. </p>
<p>16.) when only at CC your proud to say that you're a math fanatic or a science buff or a prolific writer because you know that a lot of us envy you for have a hobby that will make a big impact in college admission. </p>
<p>17.) when in real life your friends are talking about prestigious colleges and you say, " I know some people who got into MIT/ Stanford/ Harvard." Yah, sure, you do, from CC, of course. </p>
<p>Well, that's all I can think up now. Some of these are only intended for laughs. I don't think they're true.</p>
<p>Imiracle911, I wish I had the same problem as you. I really would like if my parents had an immense obsession with my getting into an Ivy league school...but they don't. I want to go to Harvard, and I've decided that on my own accord, but my parents just want me to go wherever I'm happy and think I'll do best...It's a pain. Sometimes, I wish they'd chain me down and force me to memorize the dictionary, make me learn the locations of bizarre, obscure places, or instill fear in me if I ever got anything less than an A...They're too easygoing!</p>
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<p>Or if you promise to take a break and then renege on your promise a day later.</p>
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<p>Oh, and minimizing the collegeconfidential window you're looking at when you're supposed to do a project and the teacher walks by (I did the project the night before it was due anyways).</p>
<p>I get good grades and did well on the SATs, but when I tell people my score they're all "WHAT! You got that?! You'll get into Harvard no sweat." Compared to many CCers, it is a nice deal lower. Well, such is the life of a CCer.</p>
<p>Collegeconfidential has also made me unconsciously redefine my notion of intelligence in other people. While I consciously realize that intelligence is all relative, I often unconsciously think that if someone can't get something that I can get, it makes me unconsciously think of that person as not particularly smart because I feel stupid looking at collegeconfidential (or actually more accurately Artofproblemsolving and my summer math camp). And yet I'm in the 99th percentile in math, as verified by numerous tests (not just one). So then I fear for the future of our nation if there aren't more people better than me in math.</p>
<p>Actually, my last post makes me feel like I'm putting the blame on CC, not on myself. But that shouldn't be the case.</p>
<p>Oh, and you know you're a CCer if you place your entire self-worth and self-esteem on your stats.</p>
<p>haha yeah i admit to checking my email ridiculously often
and to minimizing the cc window whenever someone walks by
and to having a deathly fear of anyone from my school checking the boards and recognizing my stats</p>
<p>a pox on the day i went onto cc!
oh, who am i kidding.</p>
<p>oh, and you know youre a ccer if youve broken the 60 second rule and cursed the cc gods for not letting you post 7 times in 1 minute.</p>
<p>haha, I like #6! So true.</p>
<p>Yeah I get email sent to my phone, so I basically check every 3 seconds hah. I also find it funny when my friends mom tries to explain the admission process to me haha. "Now make sure you know when the deadlines are, or if you want to apply early action- early action is..."</p>
<p>Just smile and nod, smile and nod.</p>