Today, my mother told me she's disappointed in me for not going to a better college, and that if I was in the top ten of my class that the rest of those ten must be really dumb. Fact is, I threw away the acceptance letters to Carnegie Mellon and Cornell because I didn't want her to have to pay. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, after being accepted into the college of my dreams, I found out that my mom has spent all my college savings on alcohol over the years, and she says that it's my fault for not "helping her get help." FML
Today, I dropped out of college and moved back home to help my mom take care of my younger siblings after our father's death. My mom yelled at me and scolded me and lectured me for throwing my life away, and said this was the last thing she ever wanted me to do. I thought she needed help. FML
Today, my mom called and told me I got accepted to my first-choice college. I got really excited and asked her to read me the letter. As she started to read it, she said, "Oops... uh, nevermind." FML
Today, I found out I was qualified to go to a magnet school. My mom threw the papers away, claiming she thinks I shouldn't be with "rich and snobby" people. She grew up as a rich snob and has a fortune waiting for her when her parents die, and she brags about it. FML
Today, my mother told me I should think about quitting school. She explained that the reason was because she didn't want me to be more successful than my older sisters. FML
Today, I got a large envelope from a college I applied to earlier. My mom, expecting big news, made my family gather round as I opened it. It ended up being a letter of rejection from not just that school, but all three campuses of the state college. FML
Today, my mom yelled at me because I refused to lend her money. The reason I won't lend her money? The last time I did, she and my dad went out and bought a Macbook and a new car instead of paying bills. Apparently, I'm being 'selfish' by keeping my own money and putting it towards university. FML
Today, after spending years volunteering at community theatres and being accepted into a prestigious university for theatrical design, my public high school gave me a scholarship. All my mother could say was, "I'm sorry they wasted their money on you." FML
Today, whilst on a phone interview with a college I really want to go to, my mother picks up the other line and shouts into the phone "She's not going to college, she's lazy and she'll only disappoint you." The interviewer hung up before I could say anything. FML
Today, I found out that my dad, thinking it was an advertisement, threw away a letter from the college I applied to. FML
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mike1921 0
YDI for throwing them away
evangldbrg 0
YDI for not talking to your mom and throwing them away. If you can't afford it, there's always financial aid...
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USMCAlex 0
Dude you turned down Cornell? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot dude?
ncmx516 0
aww that was so cute and nice that you'd do that to help out your mom so she didn't have to pay. people at those schools are usually snobby and stuck up anyway.
Bucinka 5
LOL at Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Seriously, honey, you threw away top-rated school acceptances? I certainly hope this is a fake, because if not, you deserve what you got for not researching and pursuing financial aid. Take it from me; my situation was just the opposite. I got accepted at several top-ranked schools, and was #2 in my class, all these AP courses yadda yadda, and parents said NO. Not just you're not going to Cornell, they said you're not going to college period. Unless someone gives you a full ride, you're not going. Because we're not giving you shit. One day I came home to find my financial aid application torn up in little pieces. That was my father's handiwork. I made the best of the education I did get, but I always wondered if my life would have been different if I had told my folks to **** themselves, mortgaged my ass out, and gone to a name school. (And hid my FAF) Okay, this isn't about me, but I'm just saying you can learn from others' life experiences.
tb15 0
it usually costs about a hundred dollars to apply to a college, and spending that much on two different colleges only to throw out the acceptance letters, says to me you're doing pretty well financially. I'm fortunate enough to have parents who can pay for most of my college,but my dad raised the majority of his college money himself. also, the fact that she wishes you could go to a better college means that she probably has the money t pay for a better college. PS. It's weird how out of all the FML's I've read only like two OP's have responded to the comments
mariosklant 0
isn't Cornell need blind? if it is...you must feel like an idiot.
Mmek 0
I don't understand all of these FML... Parents are supposed to pay for your damn college, so why are you hiding that you got accepted to a good college, be proud and let them pay.. you're all throwing your life away if you go to a cheap stupid dumb college...
bluemorning_fml 0
mmmm baaad
Pixeh_fml 0
ivies usually have more financial aid money to lend, and most are trying to get kids through college without debts now. ydi for not doing basic financial aid research
1215116a 14
Why apply if you didn't want her to pay?
rodriguezequal 0
She's right...you are dumb! ydi