<p>So I guess one might say I’m in quite the pickle… or a cucumber in a pickle jar. My apologies if there are typos in this post, I’m typing it on a touchscreen phone, and not being able to actually click a button is, err… foreign to me, you could say. Onto the point though… It would appear that I am having a tough time trying to find a school that’s right for me. You see, while I’m fairly smart enough, the problem is that I’m not academically smart and the type of careers I would like to get into don’t particularly focus too much on academic smarts but do vaguely involve so you may earn credits… At least, this is usually what my teachers and counselors would tell me when I talked to them about what I’d like to do with my future. As time went on though, and as I became the target for bullying from peers and faculty, I dropped out of high school when an adult basically told me to kill myself… He said that when I disappear, the world would turn and my existence wouldn’t matter… For a passionate artist like myself, that’s painful for me, but it is also like adding fuel to the fire. For a long time I’ve been depressed, and oppressed for being different, and I try not to obsess over all the terrible things that have happened to me, but it’s really very hard to get over when it’s been like that for a long long time. The point is, I want to get into filming and acting classes, and I can’t seem to find any schools in New York. I found a really nice school in California that I really like(UCSC), but that’s so far from PA(my home)… I am very sure I’d like it though, but I don’t even know where to start since I dropped out of high school before I got the chance to talk to my counselor about college. I’m very good with drawing; everyone, even myself, had assumed I’d be going to achool for drawing, but i think I really like filming and putting videos together. I uploaded some stuff to youtube, and it was really so much fun that i think i really wanna go to school for it… so if anyone has some suggestions, information, or personal experiences to share, please please please reply or send me a pm. It would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading. xMylo</p>