I love my parents. My mom and I have a pretty close relationship, mainly because we have pretty similar personalities but that can also be the reason why we don’t see eye-to-eye. Today I was just having a normal conversation with my mother when out of the blue she brought up grad school, again. I went through some traumatic experiences through my freshman and sophomore years of college and therefore want to take a gap year to work before going to grad school so that I can fully recuperate before jumping into another stressful school situation. My mother would prefer me go straight to school, mainly because she worries about me having to pay off my loans during that year. She also looks back on my sister’s mistakes with school and, being the youngest child, my parents push me extra hard to keep me from making the same mistakes.