If you attended and/or completed college, how much of that was based on your parents insistence? Did they demand that you go to college? If so, did they pay your tuition and meddle in your GPA?

I don't recall that they insisted. Besides, I paid my on way.

College was not even in the picture for me. I was in the Air Force three days after HS graduation - that was my way to have a job and leave home.

It was drilled in my head from a very young age to go to college. My parents didn't pay for my education, but they paid for my brother's. A bit ass backwards....as the reason I dropped out in the first place was because I couldn't afford it.

They never told me it was the best way.They did not understand it. Dad thought I could just open up a hair salon in the home town and run with it!

My parents were strict in the sense that they wanted me to be a good student, but also self-serving when they told me that if I wanted to go to college, get a job and pay for it myself. So I did--I worked 2 jobs through high school and college itself, all the while paying them rent in the amount of 25% of whatever my take-home pay was, each week.

That part pissed me off and I thought was unfair--pay for my own college, but you're going to take all my money so I have to struggle to do it?? And for what--so my mother could continue to shop her brains out and my Dad could pay for his own college courses he was taking, all the while paying child support for my step brother and sister.


I even paid for my own wedding, too, and at least I owe them nothing, and if you look up "dysfunctional" in the dictionary, you'll see our family photo there, right after the definition.

They didn't insist and I paid my own schooling.

They definitely meddled. If it weren't for them, I probably wouldn't have went (and flunked/quit) the first time. Had I did what I wanted to do back then....take a few years off after high school, then go to college when I was ready....I probably would have done better. But no, I was browbeat into going.