Ironhold wrote:

The ones my age were either seeing someone or prepping for a mission.

The good thing is, there is a never ending supply of new students and you are not too old for the younger ones.

My options to get there are I-35 (busiest highway and trucking route in North America), a road so dangerous that the local soldiers were once forbidden to drive it (and it doesn't get me all the way there; it dumps out on I-35), and a series of back-roads and highways where I can literally go 10+ miles between towns.

It would appear, from this comment and others that you have made, that you live in total fear of actually living. Why do you allow yourself to be so afraid of so much in the world?   Do you think that the rest of the world lives in a bubble?  This comment shows a reason to be careful.  Not a reason to stay home.  At your age, I was traveling internationally, to places I had never been before, towing a toddler and all that entails, with me.  At this point in my life, I make road trips by myself in all kinds of weather, that sometimes are a couple of thousand miles long. You are missing so much being so afraid of everything.  It's sad!

As for your allergy excuse, have you never heard of the many inexpensive, over the counter allergy medications that are available now.

How can you not know how totally meaningless these excuses are?  They put you in a very bad light.  They aren't even believable.  We all do and experience worse everyday and we survive.  If you are really that frightened of everything and not just making excuses, then you really need to see someone before you waste your whole life.