<p>amazing. I didn’t know that about Berea’s endowment.<br>
Good luck with your decisions, SkyGirl. I am sorry your Mom can’t be happy for you this summer. Be strong. She may be proud of you even if she can’t be happy about your going away. You will still be her daughter and college will make you stronger and help you bear up under whatever problems life throws at you. You also have a life to lead and perhaps your own daughter to raise one day. Take this time to enjoy being young and to set aside four years to work and learn. I miss my son a lot, but I realize that he must bond with his own generation now. I am glad I was his teacher/support for a good while. People his age are often his teachers now, and his counselors and support system. This is normal for your twenties and in no way a rejection or abandonment of one’s mother.</p>