I like to believe myself to be confident in my abilities, all except one. I have little patience.
I've been in the gifted and talented programs at every school I've attended since kindergarten, when they tested me into the program a year early because my reading level was already that of a third grader, as I had taught myself to read at 3. At the start of grade 9, I requested that my parents withdraw me from public high school and homeschool me, partly because of my declining health, and partly because I was just plain bored. We designed an intensive curriculum of mathematics (algebra 1 & geometry), English grammar and literature, physics 1, music theory, and French, in addition to enrolling me in all the extracurriculars I had not been able to take previously for scheduling's sake. I finished out the year successfully, the only B I made had been an 88 in my math class, the highest being a perfect 100 in music theory books 1-4.
We decided, for my sophomore year, (this year) that I would enroll at the local university for dual enrollment classes, and if that went well, which it has so far, to look at Bard College at Simon's Rock as a possibility for the following years. I am currently in the process of applying there, and will hopefully know something this spring.
The problem is, my classes at the university are painstakingly boring, like the classes at my high school had been.
I'm honestly a little frightened that when I go to college, it will be time wasted, simply because of the amount of time I spend researching the subjects I want to pursue. I desire a profession in the field of applied quantum physics. I have never taken a single quantum class, but when my father gave me a quantum textbook to give me something to formally study, I already knew the material.
I'm not too thrilled about the concept of spending money on a college degree that will feel wasted. It's required that I get a doctorate in order to pursue my line of work, however, as I stated before, I'm not very patient and boring classes put me in a foul mood.
Additional information about myself, I am a 15 year old female born into a very educated family, my father himself is a physicist, my mother both a librarian and teacher. I have Asperger's Syndrome, and am on medicine for social anxiety.
If anyone could give advice, it would be much appreciated.
Thank you.