I’m in my 5th year of school and graduating in May. I go to a large state college which has a very bad and nortious reputation for being difficult. They have a tendency to lose paper work, people never call you back, their policies for graduation and fin aid are crazy. Try to talk to an actual person—yeah, right…………hello, automated systems and voicemails. This is the administration, the professors are great. Anyway, you get the picture.

So, I had some trouble with registering for one class. This brought my financial aid status down and I lost of it. My bill is still paid in full, which is the important thing. Anyway, I told my mom about it. We are very close and I tell her all about school.

Well, she flew off the handle and called the school. She didn’t even know who she was taking about. This was a financial aid problem, but she called my former major (i’m on my 2nd different one) and asked why I had not graduated yet.

The head of that major’s dept
told my that I should think about a different major. Which is what I’m doing.

So, basically my mother was speaking to the wrong person, in the wrong major and my mom was clueless to what courses/major I had been taking.

To make a long story short………….she is constantly butting in and citing incorrect information.

This causes HUGE fights, b/c she doesn’t believe anything I say. I have gone to this school for 5 years. It is VERY common for most people to graduate after 5 years, not 4. I mean, it’s hard to graduate when you have almost 40 classes of just gen ed (go state school for taking your hard earned money on a gym class–yes, we are required to do a semester of phys ed.)

I’m paying for school on my own. ALL of my loans from the past 5 years are in MY name.

What should I do? My mom’s concern is really too much. It causes huge fights and is very stressful. I’m doing the best I can to complete everything and graduate.
My mom is a bit controlling. In the past, she’s even called my place of employment to tell me to drive careful in the rain.
I live on campus, which she has no problem letting me do. She not overprotective……just misinformed, which makes her FLY off the handle about everything.

She constantly things she’s right (to everyone). Don’t try to tell her otherwise.