I wish I could play. I'm a music fanatic bit I have no talent for creating it. Rise against is definitely one of my favorite bands, I would love to see them live one day. Swing life away is also my fave song of theirs. Of course, daddy dearest forbids me from listening to them because of what punk music is supposed to represent which is inappropriate for true Christians

It's never too late to learn. I'm sure there's a music class in your gen. ed. requirements, maybe they offer a guitar class where you go? Sounds like an easy A to me

My parents never made that connection w/ punk music, only rap, so at least I still had rock. My father threw out his Eagle's Hotel California album because he thought it had demonic influences, so I know where you're coming from with that lol. 

That sucks that you have so many older people in your classes, night classes are very popular w/ non-traditional students. At the community college I went to it was almost all students during the day and all adults at night. I'd recommend trying to grab a few morning or early afternoon classes next semester, you'll be meeting people in no-time. Personally I'm not particularly outoging so I found it pretty hard to meet people at Community College. 

I'm not sure what your financial situation is, but you may want to think about 4 year school and living on campus. If you do well in community college I'm sure you will get great offers after you have your associates. 

 It's not as simple as just my future career though. I know very well that if I don't submit to his desires, when we go in to that meeting he'll say I'm not demonstrating a repentant attitude, and that he doesn't think I'm ready to be reinstated. If I don't do what he wants, I lose my mom and my aunt and my uncle and my cousins for possibly forever. I can't deal with that. I can't deal with any of this.

Maybe you could keep him under the impression that you're doing what he wants while doing your own thing? If you want to take classes in forensics maybe you could sign up for them and tell your parents you're taking something else? Not sure who's paying for the bill, but parents can't see what classes you're taking on the bill. I signed up for a physical anthropology class last semester when I was living at home, something my parents never would have paid for if they knew what I was learning in there (it's all about evolution). I kept it on the down-low and told them it was a gen-ed, then I just didn't talk about the class.

They wouldn't know you'd lied about your major until you got your degree and by then it would be too late. It sounds to me like you're in a pretty tough spot, being that you're young you might want to keep your parents under the impression that you're compliant until you have a clear cut escape plan. smiley: ohwell

I know it doesn't seem like it now, but everything will work itself out, and this is the right decision no matter how hard it is on family. You have to live your life for you before you live it for anyone else. 


-Dave

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.' They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

- John Lennon
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