<p>i’m sick of my parents trying to force medicine on me…makes me less inclined to be a doctor. anyway…they’re so blind…its not like i like biology all too much.</p>
<p>^ I think pretty much everyone’s parents would like them to be a doctor. If I even mention it to my mom, she gets all excited.</p>
<p>^I know exactly what you guys mean. I want to be a doctor, but it gets annoying when my parents force me into that field. Even though thats already what I want to do…
But yeah, I agree with what joshcasto said: tune your parents out if it comes down to it, and just do the things you love.</p>
<p>Yeah, about the doctor bit – I feel like my dad’s put me in a box, and I’m only 15. I should have all the options in the world – journalism or political science or anthropology or whatever I want. But noo, for him it’s premed or bust. I actually like science – the science of the brain, to be exact – but I’m more interested in the research and study of it than the use of it in healthcare. </p>
<p>Ughh.</p>
<p>Lol, and I don’t have Asian parents, though they are immigrants.</p>
<p>Ya too, my family really wants me to be successful and to be this not that.</p>
<p>Well to succeed in life isn’t about being this or that, making billions of dollars by 30, taking numerous AP classes or going to an Ivy league school. There’s more to success than all these things even though the world we live in measures success by these factors. I mean a poor man on the street who didn’t go to school but is happy with himself having achieved all the goals he set, to me, is successful.</p>
<p>Different people have different standards and goals, so success is depends on individuals.</p>
<p>My parents are annoying with regards to so many things, but they really have not pressured me at all to succeed in school and such. All of my motivation was brought upon by myself. I see this as both a good and bad thing.</p>
<p>tl;dr
OP you’re probably letting your parents control your life and aspirations, just let go and do what makes you happiest or will contribute to later happiness (of yourself)</p>
<p>I definitely agree with you with being sick and tired of being pressured to succeed. I think especially with Asian parents who immigrated to the U.S., there’s a lot more pressure since they relate education and grades to how they did themselves and their friends’ kids. If I don’t get into a good college and graduate from there and do everything that I/we have all planned out, I really don’t know what I’ll do. I definitely don’t want to be wasting their money in college, especially since OOS is ridiculously expensive, and disappointing my parents is the last thing I want to do. The pressure is definitely on right now for getting good SAT/ACT scores so I can start to apply to colleges in the fall.</p>
<p>Yeah, my parents also asked if I wanted to be a doctor and sort of pushed me on it. Now, hopefully I’ll become a pharmacist, even though I don’t really like biology/science that much since I’m not too good at it. I guess I’ll have to really lock it in and find aspects I like about it, or else I’m screwed.</p>