This sounds bad, but I hold snowboarding above anything else. I had to make a desision this year, wether to go to college, or work all summer and move to Colorado with my uncle and and friend to snowboard. I figured I might as well get my education, THEN move there because I will only be 23 when I graduate. It was a very hard desision for me, and I still have my doubts, but I am going to stick this out. Joining the Millitary would be a great decision, if I didn't have other priorities such as riding all winter. It's not about fun, its more... thats what I want to do for the rest of my life, is be around snowboarding, wether it be riding for sponsors, owning a small shop, or running DC Shoes Co. haha.
Pledging should keep me on track. I will have two mandetory family study tables per week for 1-1/2 hours. That is two more than I would go to if I wern't pledging. I always have the choice to leave it if it starts to kill my grades, because school does come over partying.
As for my parents, they are great people, and have been there for me more times than I can even remeber, but I guess they believe I should be able to do this on my own?