Obsession with College?

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As yall know I just started College up again so YA! but while reading the textbook my parents yelled for me. They wanted me to do the dishes. Mom asked why haven't you done them I said I was busy. Busy doing what! Reading my book. They hate this obsession behavior I have towards college. I told mom this is how I was before and you didn't like it then either. She says I need to stop being obsessive and there are other things to do besides school!! !! I have all day tomorrow/next day!! ! But I get as I'd call 'Hyper-focused" and Really obsessive towards college work. That's my Special interest (if you will) and it comes FIRST IMO. Yes I only have 3 classes but I have to keep on top of them so I don't get behind!! I read a site 5 years ago (which is now gone) that mention about getting your Graduate degree say BYE! to your family and GOOD LUCK with a social life because PhD/Masters is study/books 24/7!! !! Lock yourself IN YOUR ROOM!! !! ! How do I deal with my parents not liking my college obsessiveness? Thanks. (See I'm back in College and still have time for WP) YA!

Study outside of the house. A library or park would be ideal.

I understand how you feel. Whenever I am working on homework or quizzes I tend to get really focused into what I am doing. And the parents have to tell me to do this and that and then they get mad because I have been "home all day". Not really, spend a few hours at college, and then come back home. Then I have a younger sibling and their excuse for the younger siblings is that they "aren't an adult yet". But I am working. Why can no one understand I must work on my homework and take no break for some dishes.

I tend to do it when no one is home, I tend to focus on another kind of work while everyone is around. And when the house is empty I work on my college work.

In college, I MOSTLY [with a lot of between class and in the library exceptions] worked at home. I did not shirk my duties, though I have to say I was not always really happy to do them - but as the top one of 5, even though certain others never pulled their weight I was not too burdened.

But for concentration I needed to keep my door closed. My mother hated that, seriously objected. Sometimes I had to leave just to get stuff done.

One would like to think you and your mother could work out a schedule - do X at 5:00, use 6:00 - 10:00 as you please, or whatever.

But the dynamic is not necessarily so. So many people - certainly my mother, in her way, and like 90% of those I hae had to deal with aklong the way - are horribly threatened and offended by non-uniformity.

I think I have an obsession with vet school. I've always heard people say that vet school is oh so hard and even harder than med school. I always wondered if the vet students who made those comments were people people who really should have went to med school instead and who obviously didn't have veternary medicine as a special intrest or even have a special intrest at all. My theroy was confirmed when I was watching something on the TV about vet school and this girl said it was so hard because you can't go to a movie or play basketball as much as you used to and that you can't go out and party as much as you used to or even at all and that you spend like 90% of your time studdying. I pretty read about animals and veternary medicine topics all the time. Vet school is going to be a sinch.