Have a discussion with your parents, show them this line of discussion we have been having and just see what they have to say. They sound pretty down to earth since they said you can’t ride until you finish a year of college, they are probably hoping this is some kind of “phase” but, probably you will still want to ride, so just relax, don’t get all defensive by our comments, a lot of us have some experience that we are speaking from. One guy just went down this morning, you should read it.
Do you think all of us were not jazzed when we decided we wanted to ride? Hell, I was a total spazoid saying that I was going to get a brand new Triumph and blah, blah, blah, ride to Canada whatever, well, once you research, get your head out of the clouds, and take the class and start riding you realize that riding a motorcycle is dangerous and it’s better to be scared and riding than overconfident and riding, overconfidence kills.
Well maybe not scared exactly but afraid to die, or something, wary, whatever you want to call it.
Take care, have fun in college.