ASA Lana,Since I am much more mature than you are, I can give insight from another decade! Well or several!
I was told, work your senior year, get a car and work. Work and go to college!
I was the first one in my distant and only Family that went to college!
R E Lee went to Westpoint and I was the next! Well not Westpoint, but did want to, but college!
I have disappointed my parents many times, but, made them proud at other times!
I had poor parents and paid and worked my way through State Schools!
I still think I am pissed that my younger Brother had help from them to go to the U Ark!
Well, he is still a dick and I am my own sweet self!
What the heck! When You do good, the Parents tell you that you did good! They tell their friends and smile like hell as they are proud of you!
Will they tell you that they are proud of you!?
Well I am -- years old, and never heard my parents tell me that they were proud of me for graduating from college!
But in my heart and theirs, I new they were!