I just want to run away to art school?

College Life
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<p>I’m very unsettled and unhappy right now. Since Freshman year I’ve been jumping back and forth from out of state universities to my home state university and wasted time taking a semester off trying to find myself. I’m back home at my state university and I promised my family and friends that I was staying here for good until I graduate. </p>

<p>I’m just so miserable though. The semester just started and I’m already anxious and feeling like I need to get out. I can’t stand being back home and living with my parents. I hate this city and I’ve wanted to get out since high school but I keep getting pulled back here. I don’t have a major, I’m lacking credits, I have no idea what I’m doing or what I’m working towards.</p>

<p>Sure I can make straight A’s, but I have no passion or drive. I just want to find something that excites me. My parents expect me to major in economics or biochemistry - something that’s going to lead to a lucrative career or grad school. I want to, but I just don’t want to stay here. I feel like I’m wasting my life away. I’m bored of everyone here, I want to get out and experience the world. </p>

<p>So I want to pack my things and move to San Francisco. I want to apply to both Academy of Art University and San Francisco Art Institute (Not the chain college!). They both seem like decent schools. Then I can major in graphic design or some type of art. I’ve been doing graphic design since middle school, I love it, and I could see myself being perfectly happy making a career out of it. Or maybe even fashion. I just want to do something cool and exciting. I know I sound immature, but I’m not. I’m 20 years old, I’m sick of wasting my life in places I don’t want to be, I just want to do what I want to do.</p>

<p>So is leaving and going to art school a good decision? I’m worried about not being able to make money or find a job afterwards, but are there really a lack of jobs in creative fields? I feel like if I’m good enough then finding work shouldn’t be hard. I just want to start my life and go somewhere new. What do you think? Should I just take the dive and do it? I’m seriously considering dropping out of this semester and leaving right now. I just need to get out!!!</p>

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<p>Depends on how good you are. I don’t know if the academy of art is “good” though. My friend is doing the same thing(graphic design and marketing) and he has applied to csu san Luis obispo and ucla. The school you attend may affect your job prospects, emphasis on may. Research more art schools you might possibly attend. Or just find something art related to do at your current school.</p>

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<p>San Francisco has the highest smug rates in the US.</p>

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<p>You don’t need a graphic design degree. It’s all about your portfolio.</p>

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<p>DO IT. or one day you will be 60 years old and regret your life and die sad and lonely. I know someone who went to academy of art and they moved to europe and have good jobs. But yes it is very competitive. but if its your passion do it. dont waste your life doing something you hate because its more ‘practical’. Our 80 or so years on this earth is way short, dying on your feet is better than living on your knees.</p>

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<p>Dude! Dude! You are my twin because I am in your exact same pants right now- 20 years old, jumping between universities, no motivation or passion AND I was planning to move to San Francisco, or Seattle, and I even looked at the art institutes there. I was actually planning on going on the california zephyr but then I figured it was too expensive so I would just fly straight there. And I feel like I have been wasting my life away as well, and not only that put my parents drill it into my head every day. But like in Office Space, it’s not that I am lazy, it’s that I just don’t care. Because I really hate formal classroom learning but there is this huge fear that I won’t be able to get a good job or that I will be less human if I don’t finish a degree. Hmmmm maybe I do culinary arts? I am not a good artist.</p>