Your Parents and Cubing

[Erdos]

2260, not as good as I was hoping for though =[

Hey that's decent! With a gpa above 4, a strong SAT, hard classes, and youtube and OUWR you should easily make it into all UC's.

I have slightly better stats than that (2400 superscore, 16 APs total, 3.98 UW GPA, etc.) and I got into all the UCs with lots of scholarships. I also got into Princeton, Caltech, UPenn, and Yale so your stats really aren't that bad at all. Combine that with the somewhat unique extracurricular of cubing and your skills and then you got a pretty solid application (assuming you have some other great extracurriculars, awards, essays, etc.). 2260 is a slightly above average score for the Ivys (not sure about 2010 data though), and a much higher score than the average at UCs.

 

[stinkocheeze]

BTW for the 3rd Time: Im asain, but my parents aren't.

?????

 

[stinkocheeze]

My parents don't mind me doing it. They don't mind buying them for me, and my dad AND my mom are willing to drive

TWSS. and TWHS

 

[tanjiajien]

Both my parents support me alot. But my mom's sometimes annoying
because some of the cubes I want are kind of expensive and she says
it's a waste.

 

[SaberSlash49]

My parents hate me cubing because it's too noisy and a waste of gas. My dad got over it though, he's somewhat okay with it, but will only drive about 3-4, possibly 5 hours for a competition. He thinks >5 is absurd, so basically Dallas, Houston (i think), Austin, possibly San Antonio, and I think Lufkin.

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

My parents hate me cubing because it's too noisy and a waste of gas. My dad got over it though, he's somewhat okay with it, but will only drive about 3-4, possibly 5 hours for a competition. He thinks >5 is absurd, so basically Dallas, Houston (i think), Austin, possibly San Antonio, and I think Lufkin.

Tell that to Cube4You/

 

[flan]

my family think its just another wierd thing im obsessed with such as lock picking which i gave up because locks cost so much and break. they seem to think that this obsession will pass. as for my friends they quite like it. especially when i solve it while really drunk 5 minutes after being sick (this actually happend twice).

my older brother is a bit like me that he likes getting good at something but it has to be free. pen spinning in one hand while working is one and minesweeper while he is supposed to be working is another.

Edit : my first ever post i think!

 

[adfoote]

my mom is okay with it, except if i practice for like more than 2-3 hours. my dad is meh about it. im allowed to order cubes like once a month.
my friends dad is like WAY into it. he cant cube himself, but every time my friend gets a new pb hes like (insert censored language here) YEA

 

[Zyrb]

my mom is really interested in my cubing accomplishments and cubing in general, my dad not so much but he is taking me to a competition soon so i think he will get over it. as for brother/sisters they hate the clicking sound and think im a geek/loser for cubing. so i cube in front of them to annoy them

 

[kvaele]

My friends hate the clicking sound, and reduced me to using my silent cube around them (which is fine, because when I time myself again, I usually get solves a few seconds under my previous times). My parents don't mind, but kinda judge me for wanting to buy new cubes, and have refused to let me get CRC or jig-a-loo or anything. They claim that the WD-40 that we have will work fine. IT DOESNT!!! It has killed 3 of my rubiks brand cubes, yet they fail to believe me. Atleast there are thousands of people on here who do understand...

 

[supercuber86]

My parents like me cubing. My mom likes me getting a sub 26 average. And my dad really likes my v cube 7 solving he always likes to see me solve it faster than the previous solve. But he doesnt like when i speedcube on the 3x3 during dinner. he says its to annoying and i should be talking during dinner.

 

[MichaelP.]

Dad - "Bloody waste of time."
Everyone else in my family tries to act interested ("hey, so... what's your best rubik's cube time"), but they really couldn't care less.

 

[Andrew Ricci]

Dad - "Bloody waste of time."
Everyone else in my family tries to act interested ("hey, so... what's your best rubik's cube time"), but they really couldn't care less.

Same. I really think my parents are trying to get me to stop cubing. They blame me going to bed too late and me spending too much time on the computer on the cube, and won't let me go to competitions.

 

[IamWEB]

Where there's a KFC, there's a cube.

 

[Eleredo]

My mother listens carefully to anything I say about cubing, asks lots of questions, and is very interested. She even tried to solve a 2x2x2 the other day but refused to accept my help after fiddling with it for ages.

My dad is the kind of person who is proud of it and finds it interesting, but he is too pompous to admit that. Whenever he's near me while I'm cubing, I can see him watching me in the corner of my eye and when I look at him, he quickly looks away to make it seem that he is not interested. I heard him say to someone the other day: 'He solves it in the blink of an eye, like this. *does some fingertrick motions*' The other person: 'Oh really?'

And I only average 45 seconds lol. (yup, still stuck :fp) He'll never brag about it again though cause we got into this huge verbal fight and he hasn't been saying a word to me ever since, and he probably never will anymore but that's another story.

Ah, sorry for the kick, I just noticed that, seems like I dug too far into the off-topic section.

 

[Mcuber5]

I try to learn my mother how to solve the cube, she abandon after the cross on the first face

 

[avgdi]

My parents don't mind it. My father is a little more interested in it than my mother. My siblings wanted to learn how to solve a cube, but stopped when they found out there are a few algorithms you had to memorize. And surprisingly my non-cubing friends think it's really cool.

 

[Nestor]

I'm 33.. my parents like the cube but they think I'm addicted to it. My wife loves that I have a hobby that keeps me off going crazy (I used to do extreme sports, permanent ankle injury took most of them out) but she hates it when I use my AV at night...

.. darn noisy cube drives everyone crazy after a while.

OH! And I taught my brother how to solve it, LBL and hes getting into it

 

[Joker]

My non-cuber friends thinks its cool. My parents are fine with it, and I taught my dad how to solve the F2L with LBL.

 

[AvidCuber]

My sister thinks it's dorky but she doesn't really have anything against it, my brother thinks it's kind of cool. My mom thinks it's interesting but she doesn't understand why I need so many or how I can do it for more than about 10 minutes before getting bored. My dad used to cube a bit back in the '80s (not seriously, and he doesn't remember how to solve more than the first 2 layers either) so he doesn't really have anything against it.