<p>Happy New Month.</p><p><br/></p><p>Wait!!!!</p><p><br/></p><p>Honestly, I don't know how we got here this fast.</p><p><br/></p><p>It feels like I blinked and somehow we're already in the final stretch of the year.</p><p><br/></p><p>At the beginning of the year, I had a completely different picture in my head.</p><p><br/></p><p>I thought I'd have figured out certain things by now.</p><p><br/></p><p>I thought I'd be further ahead.</p><p><br/></p><p>I thought some plans would have worked.</p><p><br/></p><p>They didn't.</p><p><br/></p><p>Some things took longer than I expected.</p><p><br/></p><p>Some didn't happen at all.</p><p><br/></p><p>And some things happened that I never planned for.</p><p><br/></p><p>That's life, I guess.</p><p><br/></p><p>You make your plans...</p><p><br/></p><p>then life edits them without asking.</p><p><br/></p><p>There were times this year when I felt like I wasn't doing enough.</p><p><br/></p><p>I'd look around and see people moving forward while I felt like I was standing in the same place.</p><p><br/></p><p>It can mess with your head.</p><p><br/></p><p>You start wondering if you're late.</p><p><br/></p><p>If you're wasting time.</p><p><br/></p><p>If maybe everyone else has figured something out that you haven't.</p><p><br/></p><p>But I'm slowly learning something.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes you're growing quietly.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes you're just trying to hold yourself together.</p><p><br/></p><p>And sometimes getting through the month is an achievement nobody else gets to see.</p><p><br/></p><p>So, October...</p><p><br/></p><p>I'm not asking you to magically fix everything.</p><p><br/></p><p>I just want a little peace.</p><p><br/></p><p>A few genuine wins.</p><p><br/></p><p>Some good news.</p><p><br/></p><p>And maybe the strength to keep going when things don't go according to plan.</p><p><br/></p><p>There's still three months left in the year.</p><p><br/></p><p>Three months to try again.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe I didn't become everything I wanted to become this year.</p><p><br/></p><p>But I'm still becoming.</p><p><br/></p><p>And for now...</p><p><br/></p><p>I'll take that.</p><p><br/></p><p>Happy New Month, guyss. ❤️❤️</p><p><br/></p><p>October, be kind🙏🙏</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.
Content Contributor
Eligible to Earn
Most Viewed in a Space
Monthly Prize Winner
Mini-Competition/Flash Contest Winner
Essay Competition Winner
Spoken Word Competition Winner
Hundred Insight Club (HIC) (100+ Insights)
Contributor (500+ Score)
Top Contributor (2000+ Score)
Elite Contributor (5000+ Score)
Trusted Contributor
Follow & Subscribe
Comments
Five stances. Choose where you stand, then join the conversation.