<p>WOW…umcp11: love your mature take on life. You will go far, sorry about the rocky start. Some people with good grades will be a lot worse off than you, and your mature attitude. </p>
<p>thomas: I hope you were listening, and I hope you can find inside yourself what you need to be successful. Your start was definitely unconventional, and right now it must seem the end of the world, but really it is not so late. Some kids your age are ditching what they first wanted to do and starting over anyway. Your short synopsis doesn’t give any of us enough info to judge your parents…but as I have said on other threads (not my own idea, but a brilliant one): you get two chances at the parent-child relationship, one where you are the child, and the next where you are the parent. Be a great parent, and learn what you can from this; when you are a parent, you will be a lot more forgiving of your own and their mistakes.</p>