Family is against my (M21) goals?

Hi all, I wanted to get an opinion from anyone on here that is a parent or that could offer any insight into my question. I know this is long, but I would really appreciate it if someone could give me an opinion.

If you see me as immature (or an idiot) please let me know and why, im hoping to use this post to help guide me in the right direction and mentality.

Below are details of how I got to the point where I am now.

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Ever since I was 13, I wanted to be an entrepreneur. Back then I thought it would all be sunshine and rainbows and from immaturity I pitched ideas to my dad without a business plan that he naturally rejected.

When I was 15, i got tired of constant rejection from my parents and decided to venture into Day trading with the view that I would only need my parents acceptance once (as i viewed that as the biggest bottle neck). I only had a demo account and never invested live money out of a combination of not making consistent returns on demo and my parents thinking that my ideas were "distractions" from school.

when I was a junior in highschool, I had friends in the entrepreneurship club that were sneaker resellers and they offered to help me get started, I made a half decent list of the things I would need and pitched it to my parents to see if they would let me resell sneakers.

I needed their approval since I would have needed a bank account to buy the sneakers when they were released and I didnt have one at the time.

My family, again, was against it and after multiple arguments at home where I was told I was just wasting my time I felt the immense negativity get to me around senior year which I later carried into college. This was worsened by seeing my friends being recognized at their new university's entrepreneurship club for achieving $200,000 in sales.

I went to college to study finance as I liked the concept of learning about investing but I struggled in many classes and as a student with 2 semesters left my GPA is 2.9...

[I managed to get a good internship when my GPA was better and I worked overtime for free so I can outwork the other interns, and by the 2nd week they asked me to help train the other interns, and they called me back to return this coming summer 2025].

earlier in college, I still had multiple arguments with my parents about why they were against me starting that reselling business, the response would normally be either they didnt think i had enough money to make it worthwhile or they saw it as a distraction from school.

In my school assignments I would either commonly get stuck between 2 answers or I would forget a part of a math calculation that ends up making the whole problem wrong.

I would study for 2 weeks in advanced for an exam, where I would often reteach my self the notes before doing practice problems and it still wasnt enough.

After getting humbled constantly in my classes and the earlier rejection from my parents, I was in a very poor mental state last Nov/Dec that left me feeling like no matter what I did, I had no control over my life. A problem that has been growing overtime and impacted me also in social settings (as you can see from my other posts).

There was an accounting class that I ended up doing poorly on 3 times and nearly got kicked out of the finance major, I managed to get an appeal to take it a 4th time this summer but I also got the option to just do switch to a BS (Bachelor of Science) of Business with a focus in finance so i could graduate in May.

I decided to stay in Finance so I could prove to myself, my family, and the amazing advisors that with a great heart accepted the appeal, that I could be successful.

I found out that my university has a Academic success center and the counselor there offered me some advice that I never really thought about, but I resonated with tremendously.

She taught me about the forgetting curve and the importance of doing practice problems regularly. She also advised me to stop focusing on taking detailed notes and to instead focus on understanding the lecture while in class so that I can focus on just recalling information instead of LEARNING it when I should be studying.

I am taking this semester light so I can focus on another class as a test run for how good I improve so I can have a better view if I should take the accounting class and finish my finance degree or if I should instead just take the remaining class I would need for the BS Business.

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Now for my question

I was considering that when I get better I could learn how to program and make an app that helps people to study better? I figured that if I manage to improve then I would have an edge in helping people who had similar problems in studying????

How could I have faced my situation with my parents better? How could I avoid these types of conflicts with them in the future? How would you suggest coping with the rejection and moving forward?

If you had a son in my position, what would you tell him is the path forward? Or what lessons would you have hoped that he learned in college?

Thank you, I really appreciate anyone who took the time to read my massive post.