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My mom is really pissing me off lately...
Throughout my life she's played the role of unnecessarily overprotective parent and wants to know everything I'm doing at all times. She also seems to think that although I'm 2 weeks short of 18 years old, I'm not smart/capable enough to make my own decisions, and she wants to make them for me or wants me to pick the decision that best benefits her. For example, college...
She's always wanted me to go in state, and the only valid reason given is that it's cheaper, which is true, but in reality I'm paying for a vast majority of tuition/fees/etc., so it's not as big of a concern to her as it should be to me. Not to mention because she's a single parent I'm sure I'll get hooked up with grants and stuff like that which will bring the cost down a decent amount. She's been overly obsessed with one college in PA (Millersville), a place which I've told her since we visited in July I hated and couldn't see myself there for 4 years. When we visited BGSU a few weeks ago, she compared EVERYTHING to Millersville. Either that or she nitpicked any minor flaw she could about the town of Bowling Green (which was pretty nice IMO and is a slightly bigger version of Bloomsburg).
I've been accepted into BGSU since early March and already sent in my housing deposit and was under the assumption that I was going there, no worries. Of course, she throws a monkey wrench into the situation and F's it all up. She now says that I shouldn't/am not allowed to go because the drive is too long. Last time I checked, I'm making the drive. She has to do it two more times this summer, once for orientation and then for moving day, so basically because the drive is inconvienient for her, I can't go. Then, she outright refuses to co-sign my student loans because BGSU is all of a sudden too expensive. Why would you wait until freaking April to drop this on me? She'll also gladly co-sign for an in-state school, yet the difference isn't THAT much.
BGSU: $20,000 a year not including books, etc.
PA State System schools: $13,000 a year not including any of that also
Not only that, but she hasn't gotten all the tax information around to finish my FAFSA forms, so all the loan/grant money isn't factored in. She's assuming that I'm not going to find a job out of college and am guaranteed to default on my loans, and will only let me go to BG if I find someone else to co-sign, and I shouldn't have to because it's not their responsibility. So basically, because of her, I'm screwed over. The only in-state school I want to go to is Penn State, but my grades aren't near good enough to get in. The other ones I've seen I've hated and don't want to go there, especially not to please her. The whole situation is ridiculous and completely unfair to me, especially considering the timing of this. I want to break something.
My mom is really pissing me off lately...
Throughout my life she's played the role of unnecessarily overprotective parent and wants to know everything I'm doing at all times. She also seems to think that although I'm 2 weeks short of 18 years old, I'm not smart/capable enough to make my own decisions, and she wants to make them for me or wants me to pick the decision that best benefits her. For example, college...
She's always wanted me to go in state, and the only valid reason given is that it's cheaper, which is true, but in reality I'm paying for a vast majority of tuition/fees/etc., so it's not as big of a concern to her as it should be to me. Not to mention because she's a single parent I'm sure I'll get hooked up with grants and stuff like that which will bring the cost down a decent amount. She's been overly obsessed with one college in PA (Millersville), a place which I've told her since we visited in July I hated and couldn't see myself there for 4 years. When we visited BGSU a few weeks ago, she compared EVERYTHING to Millersville. Either that or she nitpicked any minor flaw she could about the town of Bowling Green (which was pretty nice IMO and is a slightly bigger version of Bloomsburg).
I've been accepted into BGSU since early March and already sent in my housing deposit and was under the assumption that I was going there, no worries. Of course, she throws a monkey wrench into the situation and F's it all up. She now says that I shouldn't/am not allowed to go because the drive is too long. Last time I checked, I'm making the drive. She has to do it two more times this summer, once for orientation and then for moving day, so basically because the drive is inconvienient for her, I can't go. Then, she outright refuses to co-sign my student loans because BGSU is all of a sudden too expensive. Why would you wait until freaking April to drop this on me? She'll also gladly co-sign for an in-state school, yet the difference isn't THAT much.
BGSU: $20,000 a year not including books, etc.
PA State System schools: $13,000 a year not including any of that also
Not only that, but she hasn't gotten all the tax information around to finish my FAFSA forms, so all the loan/grant money isn't factored in. She's assuming that I'm not going to find a job out of college and am guaranteed to default on my loans, and will only let me go to BG if I find someone else to co-sign, and I shouldn't have to because it's not their responsibility. So basically, because of her, I'm screwed over. The only in-state school I want to go to is Penn State, but my grades aren't near good enough to get in. The other ones I've seen I've hated and don't want to go there, especially not to please her. The whole situation is ridiculous and completely unfair to me, especially considering the timing of this. I want to break something.
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