WTF?

This is just so sad.

Yeah but you almost have to expect it in a physics class. They also loudly discuss video games. I just shake my head.

Professor is GOAT

My physics professor is cool too, but I'm glad I don't have those supernerds in my class. It's just uncomfortable for everyone.

I've had 4 physics profs here and I'd say 3 of them have the best senses of humor of any of the profs I've had.

This is a gimmick account because I would like advice on this certain situation dealing with psychology and growing up and how I should deal with it. Some details have been omitted/or changed to hide my identity.

My story goes something like this...I learned how to read at age 3. I picked up a book describing the Presidents of the United States and read it and memorized it. By age 5 I was reading full biogrpahies of presidents, and I learned from a young age that I loved history and the political realm.

I wasn't anything besides your normal "highly advanced kid". I thought it was always a sham to be in higher learning classes at such a young age because what were we supposed to do as children but play and get sweaty? I was put into the G.A.T.E. program at 10, and my scholastic life of excellence began.

I got very good grades from grade 5 on, in all advanced classes, and in high school I joined leadership and played Water Polo. Juggling my extra curriculars with school was no easy task, but I had my priorities straight and I was living a typical, happy, American teenage life.

(aside) I come from a single parent household. My mom and dad divorced when I was 3 and I don't remember much about it. We were poor for most of my childhood. My mother is Jewish and she worked 3 jobs to get us out of being poor and eventually got promoted and became middle class.

When I was 15, I got involved heavily in normal hobbies for every teenage boy. I started to play my favorite games a lot more (Yugioh and Magic the Gathering), I began to pursue interests in girls, and I started to develop quite the interest in watching sports on TV. NORMAL things. I didn't budge one bit on schoolwork or Water Polo, I did my stuff and did it on my own personal choice. My mom worked 9-5 so during polo season she'd pick me up but thats about it.

My mother started having issues with my school, and lots of them. I was one of the popular kids at school and I lived near campus. A group of kids would constantly play football outside our house so one day, their ball dropped on my moms car. My mom confronted them, and from then on she had issues with those kids. Not me. Those kids didn't even bother me at school or anything, I just did my thing. But my mother consistently had troubles with them. She would always watch them playing outside and yell at them from the screen (on wknds when she didn't work). Anyways this ended up with them teepeeing our house.

All while this is going on, I began to take Magic more seriously. This is foreshadowing for later in the post. I began to do well in serious tournaments and I was having a blast. My grades didn't suffer and school was still my top priority. Remember how I said I loved reading about Presidents as a kid? I grew up and learned I wanted to study law. At age 16, I knew what I wanted to go to college for.

Well, things didn't turn out so awesome. At age 16, on the first day of my junior year, my mother told me I was to graduate early from high school. This came out of nowhere, and she cited three reasons for this:

1. I was being held back by my academic potential (lol)
2. I was taking Magic too seriously (lol)
3. I was having troubles with kids at school (lol)

Against my very wishes and pleas I did everything I could...I wanted to have my senior year and a year to prep for my SATs and a year to do my college apps when I was SUPPOSED to. I wanted Senior Prom and Senior Homecoming. I wanted Grad Night with all of my friends I grew up with. I wanted a 4th year of high school like any other 16 year old did...but she took it away from me. I never even got to get my license.

Facing urging from family members and school teachers and myself, my mother didn't listen to anybody. She made me take some stupid exam and made me fill out college apps to all these places I didn't want to go in majors I didn't want to be in. Eventually, she decided for me that the closest school would be best, so I "decided to start" university at a place 20 mins from my house and in a major that had nothing to do with law. I was pissed. At 16 years old though, what could you do? I can't speak up for myself because she was allowed to do that.

So I started uni at 17, hated it, and did everything I could to sabotage it. It was surprising to me because I had been very disciplined and very hard working and studious in high school and I have what I believe to be a curious mind. I started to do worst and worst in school, and it was because I pretty much found poker. I began winning, began making money, and soon enough I told myself I was done trying to please anyone else so I played poker professionally for 3 years.

Now I am 23 without my bachelor's degree finished but an awesome chance to finish it (going back next fall) and a whole new head to do what it takes to get me to law school.

My question is, am I inherently self destrcutive? Is it wrong for me to blame my mother for most problems I have had since I pretty much became an adult?

She told me today I haven't done **** with my life and that Im a big fat loser (which is true) but I played poker and it made me happy. Now I realize the task at hand and Im doing it for myself, do I even need her ****ing support? Is she the root of most of my issues or am I playing the blame game? Thanks

GoPatriots1337

You're 23 and seemingly have money from playing poker. Why would you need your mother's support? Also, according to resident law student Karak - don't attend law school.


And yes from your story she sounds crazy and stupid.

dont have much money from poker, minimal amount saved + got owned by ftp + started a small time business. I work a minimum wage job currently.

So you're financially dependent on her? Well then you have no choice but to suck it up.

i pay my own rent and i pay for my own food. she does drive me around thats about it though. Ill have my license in February

Would it be financially feasible for you to move out? Who is paying tuition?

Which car will you use when you get your license? If you need to go somewhere you need your mom to drive you so that's pretty dependent.

the earliest I could move out would be next September. I am currently saving money to buy a car.

whole story is weak, you not having a licence is extra weak. move out asap, she sounds like a parasite, but you can't blame her for everything. I say **** it and go to law school.

trying to man, lol kind of hard when you come home from work and all she wants to do is bitch at you about taking time off to do extra- curricular stuff on the wknd. its completely weak.

You can't blame anyone and no one needs to be blamed. Blame doesn't solve any problems. But only you can control your actions. Regardless of if you wanted to be in college a year early, once you're there you have to do well in your classes and put the work in. I see so many people on this forum who mess up and devote far too much time and energy into poker. It needs to be a hobby, and not something that gets in the way of succeeding in life.

This sounds so funny.

You can't move out so you aren't financially independent and with minimum wage job and little savings I don't see how you can pay for school, a car, and rent. Yes your mom made bad parenting decisions but you could be on your ass now and totally ****ed if she wasn't housing you. Try your best to be cordial and move out ASAP

Listen all y'all it's a sabotage. Listen all y'all it's a sabotage. Listen all y'all it's a sabotage! LISTEN ALL Y'ALL IT'S A SABOTAGE!

Going into law is generally a bad idea and in your case it would have been a disaster so no loss there.

I think some of the stuff you reported is romanticized since they are fairly mutually exclusive (being popular and into Magic). I'm guessing because high school is a joke you have built up how bright you actually are. Undergrad is also a joke and you failed at it. I can understand under-performing but actually failing to get an undergrad degree even if you hate the disciple is fairly hard to do.

Regardless of the past what matters is now. You live at home, make minimum wage, and are dependent on your mother. You seem to think getting a car is more important than moving out which is not true. You need to move out then start looking for a better job. This is your life now so any illusions of grandeur have to go.

Maybe he can get a job as a janitor at MIT.

lol

In your face, Gus.

Pretty funny, I`m german and since Pius Heinz won the WSOP, Poker is in a pretty good spotlight here in Germany. I had so much discussions with my parents, ultimately leading to me moving out from home(My father cut quite often the internetconnection, making me lose a couple thousand dollar. My reaction to that was obviously that I was pretty aggressive, and they answered "Did you lose again?" and I was like "No **** sherlock, sure I lose money when you ****ers cut the internetconnection".

Today, my father who told me that I´m a degenerate gambler, asked me how Poker works.

It is pretty awesome that he doesnt think anymore that I´m a ******ed degenarate gambler.

See, I told you. You can see it right on the internet. Also trees, forests, and the like > desert.

"Last edited by LKJ; Yesterday at 09:05 PM. Reason: You can see nature anywhere."

NYC tho