taking mum to uni with me? lool honest advice please

[aspiration]

hii people

crazy question

honestly i didnt expect it myself

well my mum wnats to go to uni with me this sept if hopeuly i gt the grADES

she didnt go thru the whole uni experience, and is even more excited than me about it shes like shel stay with me and look after me for 5 years

to be honest my mum is my best friend at the end of the day

but/../i told her i wana go through the whole uni experience of doing everything for myself n dont want her to come n told her il still visit her

but she insists..laughin at the same time saying..u want your freedom dont u (going out wise) and things she wd never let me do tht u can only surely try out at uni

anyones opinons for this dilemma

[Arch_Angel]

Ok I'm not supposed to be commenting on the forum (except things directly related to my application) due to exams / revision....but are you completely insane?

Your mother at uni? Tell me you're joking.....

This isn't a dilemma, it's a dire problem if she's serious... with one solution = telling her to get real.

Do you really want to be known as the one who brought his/her mum to uni? I'm not sure where you're coming from culturally (are you likely to be going out getting pissed / pulling / experimenting with whatever?) but it'll ruin it for you....completely.

If she can afford to move in with you why not suggest that she do a degree of her own?

Can you really see this ending in any other way than you and your mother never seeing each other again?

No no no no and no.

(Make her read this post)

[Victoria09]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

[Arch_Angel]

Ok, you've actually distressed me now (and I can't concentrate) I really feel like I have to make a case against this again because you're about to ruin your life:

Uni is the one chance to really plunge in the deep end of coping for oneself. That's why I never understood people who can afford to live out living at home regardless of how close it is. Making crap meals out of dirty pans is fun. Realising that you don't know how to wash clothes then shrinking jumpers is a learning curve. Staying up all night watching those quiz games where people guess words in wonderful. Living with drunken morons and doing ludicrously stupid things in the middle of the night for the sake of being able to say you've done them is all part of uni. For example there was a hill behind my accomodation in the first year and we went outside dressed in plastic bags for undies and got a big sheet of plastic and slid down it, everyone ended up pretty much naked and very bruised.

Could you really see yourself doing that with your mother there.

Also, you have the choice of either living alone with your mum or "inflicting" your mum on housemates. No one will want to live with someone mum and you'll miss out on housemate related fun too.

Don't do it, you'll ruin your life and miss out on the greatest oppertunity you'll ever get to act like a complete moron at all times.

[Singh.Simran]

You're asian aren't you?

If not, you'd fit right in.



If she wants the experience, she can't destroy it for you. It's one of the most character-building times of your life, if not the.

Tell her to do a course at the uni nearest where you folks live now, alone, for the proper experience. It wouldn't be right for either of you if she came with.

[Arch_Angel]

Why has my post count dropped? Sim, yours has too.....hmmm

[Singh.Simran]

I noticed that earlier!

I was sure i'd broken the 1k (and proud in a sad kinda way...) so didnt really get it going down to 550..

I'm sure admin will explain at some point. Guess a database error of some sort or similar..

[Touche]

This thread made me lol.

[agneishd]

tis funny yes, i personally would never let my mum follow me to... london...

and yeh sadly enough i spotted your post drops, was going to enquire at some point

[Clarkey]

Well i've heard it all now..