Should She Bring Her Mom to College?

Moms are the most magical people in the world, but they kinda cramp your style in college. We hope this Sparkler gets to go to school alone.

Ok, so erm...here's the dilemma. In a month or two I will probably get a shiny paper saying I've been accepted into a foreign university (in Germany) and will have to get there really quickly for registration and all the paperwork - opening a bank account, paying tuition, ordering a student card, dealing with health insurance, trying to find a place to live for the next years and all other important grown-up student stuff.  The problem is now that my mum really wants to come with me and I don't want her to come - I think.

The fact is that I am fluent in German, I've been there many many times, alone as well as with some helpless friends, I know my way around the transport, the shops, the bureaucracy and I have some people I know there. My mum has almost never been in Western Europe and she doesn't speak any foreign languages (including English) - so I'll really be taking care of her, not the other way round. Also...she has a tendency to be a...well... a bossy over-protecting over-reacting control-freak. Sounds harsh...but it's true. Like she freaks out if I jokingly complain about yogurt too much, and doesn't want me to go outside after 9 in the evening, says what should I eat and so on. So, not only will I be her tour guide, I will also (probably) have to argue with her to convince that I am right. So I am afraid it will all be too much for me to handle - college stuff and my mum. Also, I think it will me difficult for me to meet new people if there's a person I am responsible for because she can't ask her way to a bathroom.

On the other hand, she is my mum, and we get along actually really well, and I am afraid I will feel lonely there and - if I mess up, she'll say "I told you so". Also, she is really offended and thinks that I have something against her and don't like her and am being stubborn and childish and "like a teenager", so I feel really quilty for not wanting her to come...

Help? Pwease? With cookies? And cherries? And ice-cream? Cherry-cookie ice-cream? Thanks ahead!

She's offering you cherry-cookie ice cream! You HAVE to tell her what to do!