<p>Wow, thank you all guys! Yesterday I felt depressed, but your posts really cheered me up. I'm glad to see at least some people understand my situation.</p>
<p>And, yes, I am an asian boy of age 17 living in VT. My relationship with my mom doesn't bother me as much as some occational conflicts. I got used to her style long time ago. Some of you are concerned with my family relationship, I have to say that there is definitely no problem with that between my mom and I. Also, I'm glad someone brought up the topic about how things can work against you if you call everyday. I felt lucky b/c she was only calling the financial aid office in ABCDE university...</p>
<p>Here was one of the situations among all the colleges I applied to: I signed up for a Jan. 11th administration of TOEFL exam. But those ignorant fools in Prometric testing center and ETS forced us to a rescheduled exam due to some "emergency" issues. I guess it's OK for ETS to make mistakes since they are the big monopoly in these fields... anyway, they rescheduled me to Feb. 14th. As I applied for scholarship in XYZ University, the test was rather later for their decision. So, my mom called the scholarship director 5 days in a row to check the status of my TOEFL exam. Although I guess she can't take the blame b/c i did make some mistakes along the way, but that's what she did.</p>
<p>I can fully understand her stress about the money situation, and most importantly, my future; and i can also understand her stress. But it put tremendous pressure on me. </p>
<p>Drosselmeier, I agree with your. There's definitely room for growth within me. But I'm just not the kind of person who would sit down quietly with my mom and "hugs her and try to soothe her stress" --- although I totally understands my mom. So, I always try to reduce her anger by taking all of them within me, which works. But i often feel stress as the result.</p>
<p>That's all i gotta say, hope my mom doesn't see this post :D</p>