<p>Cucumber … I have no great advice but did want to wish you good luck with your parents. I certainly can emphathize … I’m 47 now and if you ask my Mom about my undergraduate school she will gush on with all sorts of great stores and comments … go back 29 years and for 2 weeks after I picked my school my mom virtually didn’t speak to me because I didn’t go to the “best” school in my field to which I was accpeted … she certainly has forgotten that fact now … and I would say by the time I came home from school for winter break as a freshmen, and obviously happy with me choice, she has been 100% in my camp. Parents have opinions and dreams also … and darn if our kids don’t make different decisions than we would a lot … hopefully, with my kids, I will not let them see anything negative when I would have made a different choice.</p>