So lately I've been thinking a lot about college. I have the better part of a year before I have to actually begin applying to schools, but I definitely want to start thinking about this now so that I can get everything in order for college applications. This feels sort of difficult for me, as I'm sure it is for pretty much everyone, mostly because I'm not sure what I want to do with my life yet, but feel like I have to make a very polarized decision; do I want to go into science of some sort, or pursue a career in art?
Right now, I feel much more inclined to go for the art career, but I am so scared of doing so that I can't commit to that idea. I would love to just go for it and work on cartoons, but the starving artist story, self-doubt, price of art schools, and other general fears make that hard for me. I don't think I'd mind a science career. I'm pretty good at science and math and enjoy logical things. In fact, chemistry is my favorite class this year, and I was considering taking two sciences next year. However, I have trouble seeing myself in a STEM career for my whole life, and I feel like at some point I would regret not following my real dream of going into animation. However, this would allow me to go to a college close to home probably, and I feel like I would have more financial security in the future. Plus, this option would give me more freedom in switching major since I wouldn't be going to a specifically arts school. I really would love to go to CalArts since I feel it would be the best school to go to in order to get started in animation. However, the prices there are pretty high, so I'd probably have loans for a while, especially if I do become that starving artist. However, I feel - and I know this isn't really true but my friends keep saying it too - that if I don't go to CalArts I have a significantly lower chance of ever really making it big in the cartoon industry. I am also not sure if I'm good enough to even make cartoons or even get into an art school. I feel like I might be too impatient to make high quality animations, or just overall lack the skill for it. Though I don't usually get art block or anything, I do sometimes lack motivation to do things, and I'm afraid being stuck on one project for as long as you have to be in animation. My parents seem supportive of either way that I go, but most of my friends are very vocal about their opinions that I should go into science instead. As I said in the beginning though, choosing colleges and majors is hard for everyone, and I still have some time anyway. I just wish that I could just take the risk and put everything I have into art school and hopefully not regret it. I really do want to go into animation, and though it may not be the safest or most traditional route, I think I'm going to try to do it. Ultimately, it will probably be up to what colleges accept me, but as of now, I'm definitely leaning towards a more artistic school.
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