I've never really been that rebellious or done anything that bad but they're still really strict with me. I'm responsible and I've always made perfect grades. I'm 18 but they treat me just the same as they do my twin brother and sister who are 16. We all have the same curfew and the same rules. I am living in the dorms but I don't have classes on Friday and so I have to come home on Thursday night for long weekends. It defeats the whole point of living there! The only real advantage is that I don't have to commute during the week for my classes and I have fun in the dorms during the week. My family owns a small hotel and our house is right beside it. I have to work there on the weekends. They are paying for the dorm but it's pointless since they're making me come home for the weekends to work all day on Friday night and during the day on Saturday and on Sunday afternoon. I had badly wanted to go to a private college out of state but my mom teaches at my college so I had to go here because the tuition is free. It is a good college and I'm in the honors program, so there's a lot of work involved. The out of state college I wanted to go to had given me a scholarship but it was still going to be like $25,000 a year which we can't afford. We make too much for financial aid and not enough to pay for that. I had wanted to move away so I could have a more real college experience and be like an adult since I am an adult now. Nobody else still has a curfew when they go home!
I went to a party on the row last night and got in really late and my mom grounded me for it. I would have preferred to just stay on campus last night but she is the one who INSISTED I come home and then yelled at me for coming home because she said it was so late I could have fallen asleep at the wheel. She said I have to live at home the next 2 weeks because I was 3 hours late for curfew. Is she even allowed to ground me when I'm 18? She's treating me like I'm still a teenager and I'm in college!
Please don't say "my house, my rules" or go out and make it on your own. I would if I could.The only way I could pay for myself and be independent is if I dropped out of college and worked around the clock. I already asked if I could take out a loan on my own and the financial aid people said they would look at my parents finances since I'm under 24 and that I wouldn't get that much. I am not going to screw up my whole future just to not have a curfew anymore. I just want to be able to be a normal college student and go to parties and stuff on campus and not have a curfew like a teenager!
What can I do?
I went to a party on the row last night and got in really late and my mom grounded me for it. I would have preferred to just stay on campus last night but she is the one who INSISTED I come home and then yelled at me for coming home because she said it was so late I could have fallen asleep at the wheel. She said I have to live at home the next 2 weeks because I was 3 hours late for curfew. Is she even allowed to ground me when I'm 18? She's treating me like I'm still a teenager and I'm in college!
Please don't say "my house, my rules" or go out and make it on your own. I would if I could.The only way I could pay for myself and be independent is if I dropped out of college and worked around the clock. I already asked if I could take out a loan on my own and the financial aid people said they would look at my parents finances since I'm under 24 and that I wouldn't get that much. I am not going to screw up my whole future just to not have a curfew anymore. I just want to be able to be a normal college student and go to parties and stuff on campus and not have a curfew like a teenager!
What can I do?