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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a subspecialty physician of 20 years, graduated with honors.

My jr year of HS I (apparently, I have only a distant memory of this) sat my mom down and told her I wasn't going to college, that I was moving into a group house with my girlfriends, and what was the big deal. She nearly had a seizure.

What was really going on? I was bored, rootless, spending too much time with friends and not enough time on goals, school, sports, music. Basically I wasn't busy enough doing things that challenged my brain. I was also dating a guy a few years older than me who didn't go to college (parents didn't know). Why was all that happening? Long story but essentially parents had divorced 4-5 years prior and it took everyone a while to get their lives back together. In the meantime I became a teenager and decided that partying was way more fun than practicing piano.

I don't blame my parents for the divorce. I do blame them for taking their eye off the ball for that long. It was too much time at a crucial developmental time in my life. Ultimately I came to my senses, dumped the guy (my mom did insist on this when she found out), got into a top 25 school (despite slacking at school I did ok and this was also the 90's when it wasn't crazy competitive like now), and did fine. But it was all in the making for a while, and there were some specific underlying reasons behind my meandering.

So dig deeper OP. The questions isn't the what here, it's the why. She doesn't have to go right away. But you need to understand what's going on. [/quote]

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