She has a 9am class on Fridays. Well the city of Plano started its Balloon festival also., They have it around where the college is.
She got to where she turns and the road is blocked, a major road. She called me and asked what to do, I told her the next light turn right and see if she could enter the back way. So she did. She called me and said she was making a U turn because she thought she saw away to get in around where the tennis courts were, and she knew they were near the Conference center of the college. She figured it out herself. She called before she came home and said it would take half an hour to get out of the parking lot because everyone was leaving at the same time.
Taught her how to deal with people rushing and trying to get somewhere at the same time.

Then I was sitting here at the computer and hers is directly behind me facing the other wall. She said "I figured it out!!!!!!!!" She was working on a project for graphic design on Photo Shop. She is so proud of herself now. DH told her the only way to learn it was to play with it, she was not playing with it, she was doing her project. She is always so afraid she is going to mess up.
We were proud of her on both accounts.
She knows better than to argue with me anymore. She has calmed down, but she needs to get her grade up in this one class. I know it has only been four weeks, but she is not off to a good start in one class.

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That sounds like great progress!

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And she'll begin to figure out more and more, a litte at a time.

I wonder why she's so afraid to mess up anything? Is she that hard on herself or is she afraid of getting into trouble if she does mess up?

She is used to getting A's and B's and she does not like C's or below.
WIth the road being messed up yesterday morning, she has never been late and leaves early for stuff just like what happened yesterday and yet she was almost late and she does not want to late. In some things she is a perfectionist some not.

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I have one ds who is afraid of messing up anything. I'm having a hard time teaching him to drive. He's almost too afraid. I don't know why he's this way. He's always too hard on himself and I try to tell him that everyone makes mistakes.. even if we never see it.. they do!
Some things, he's so afraid of doing something wrong, that he won't even try.
But then with other things like the guitar, he just picked it up and started playing from the first day.
Weird kid, lol!

Hmmm. Tory that sounds like my #2 son. When he was 4 he was in a preschool group and he wouldn't join the other kids in a circle to play until he watched them and knew exactly how to do it. He secretly practiced riding a bicycle where he tho't no one could see him (but we saw him out of a back window). Then one day he announced he could ride. He's very smart and everybody likes him but he hates doing things he's not good at. That makes learning very difficult. He'll study really hard to make sure he learns it well. He was in a lineman class and when they took their final he told me he had to take the class over again... cuz he came in second.

The fear of failure is often greater than the potential missed opportunity. My first husband was that way in many things, one of my ds's is as well. Each success aids in the willingness/ability to take the next risk. SO PROUD of your dd for stepping outside her comfort zone and finding that success.

I know that there are some things I am so hesitant to do, especially on the computer, because my brain does not work this way naturally, so I have to get over my own concern of really messing something up (in the computer - or you know, imploding the whole Internet! ). It is only because my dh understands computers and has been reassuring me for the past 14 years that there probably is nothing I can do on here that he can not fix. LOL.

The following is an aside, not in any way directed towards Linda or her post... really it is about me, and what I have learned over the past few years.
Sometimes we think of our kids as being stubborn, willful, disobedient, disrespectful because they don't do as we ask/tell, or they don't do things the way we want. Often though, it is their own insecurities or fears that are getting in their way OR in some cases, just their own creativity and desire to figure it out their own way. When we let go, they will often amaze us at their ingenuity and common sense. I know it took me too many years to get to a point that I can sit back and let go of "controlling" things and people. My way is great of course but gee, other people have great ways too. LOL. Especially our kids, who God created with their own ways of living through theirs lives and contributing to our families and the world around us.

My ds is such that I have to build him up. When he does something right, I quietly point how he's improved, or that I see he's working hard.
That helps. With his driving, we had to go to my mom's yesterday and he ASKED me if he could drive!! That is a first for him.