In college you are free to make most of your decisions without your parents interfering. But what seem to happen anyway is that you find yourself following your parents’ rules anyway. Sure you stay out late a few times, but you learn quickly that the schoolwork doesn’t get done and you end up earning bad grades- just like your mom said you would. So you really aren’t free at all. You just have to listen to a different type of discipline now- your own. You have to be the boss of yourself in college. If you are unable to accomplish this task, you will probably end up dropping out of college. Which, less than a year ago, was your dream.