<p>I’m just not feeling it anymore.</p><p><br/></p><p>I’ve got birthday blues.</p><p><br/></p><p>I don’t know why I’m feeling so down a few days before my birthday. It’s not the usual.</p><p><br/></p><p>During my previous birthdays, days before the D-Day, I’d be excited. I’d remind a lot of people, count down the days, and look forward to it.</p><p><br/></p><p>But this year feels different.</p><p><br/></p><p>So I’ve questioned myself: Is it because I’m getting older? Is it because I’m in a different environment?</p><p><br/></p><p>Honestly, I was hoping to celebrate my last teenage year before turning twenty. Not in a grand way, but in a way that would still make me feel happy and elated.</p><p><br/></p><p>I thought, even though I can’t get a cake, throw a mini party, or host a picnic, I should at least get my pictures taken in my best outfit.</p><p><br/></p><p>But I can’t.</p><p><br/></p><p>It hurts so bad, honestly.</p><p><br/></p><p>It hurts like hell.</p><p><br/></p><p>I thought I had escaped it last time, but it came back again, and this time, it became worse.</p><p><br/></p><p>Allergy.</p><p><br/></p><p>I can’t even get water to touch my skin without feeling like my skin is burning.</p><p><br/></p><p>I can’t itch my skin because if I do, it’ll only get worse.</p><p><br/></p><p>I can’t take pictures because my skin isn’t looking good.</p><p><br/></p><p>We all thought it was normal, or probably mosquito bites. Turns out, it’s an allergy to water.</p><p><br/></p><p>Make it make sense?</p><p><br/></p><p>Can this birthday get any worse?</p><p><br/></p><p>I’ve cried already, and I don’t think I can cry again. I just want my birthday to pass quickly because I’m tired.</p><p><br/></p><p>Oh well.</p><p><br/></p><p>I’d probably post my story on the 8th of September if I’m feeling it.</p><p><br/></p><p>This birthday is looking like the worst one I’ve ever had.</p><p><br/></p><p>Happy 19th birthday to me, though.</p>
At the end of the month, we give out prizes in 3 categories: Best Content, Top Engagers and
Most Engaged Content.
Best Content
Top Engagers
Most Engaged Content
Best Content
We give out cash prizes to between 7 and 20 community members with the best insights in the past month.
The winners are picked by an in-house selection process.
The winners are NOT picked from the leaderboards/rankings, we choose winners based on the quality, originality
and insightfulness of their content.
Here are a few other things to know for the Best Content track
1
Quality over Quantity — You stand a higher chance of winning by publishing a few really good insights across the entire month,
rather than a lot of low-quality, spammy posts.
2
Share original, authentic, and engaging content that clearly reflects your voice, thoughts, and opinions.
3
Avoid using AI to generate content—use it instead to correct grammar, improve flow, enhance structure, and boost clarity.
4
Explore audio content—high-quality audio insights can significantly boost your chances of standing out.
5
Use eye-catching cover images—if your content doesn't attract attention, it's less likely to be read or engaged with.
6
Share your content in your social circles to build engagement around it.
Top Engagers
For the Top Engagers Track, we award the top 3 people who engage the most with other user's content via
comments.
The winners are picked using the "Top Monthly Engagers" tab on the rankings page.
Most Engaged Content
The Most Engaged Content recognizes users whose content received the most engagement during the month.
We pick the top 3.
The winners are picked using the "Top Monthly Contributors" tab on the rankings page.
Contributor Rankings
The Rankings/Leaderboard shows the Top 20 contributors and engagers on TwoCents a monthly and all-time basis
— as well as the most active colleges (users attending/that attended those colleges)
The all-time contributors ranking is based on the Contributor Score, which is a measure of all the engagement and exposure a contributor's content receives.
The monthly contributors ranking tracks performance of a user's insights for the current month. The monthly and all-time scores are calcuated DIFFERENTLY.
This page also shows the top engagers on an all-time & monthly basis.
Below is a list of badges on TwoCents and their designations.