I'm highly considering dropping out of college. I've been thinking about this for at least a week, but today's meeting with my scheduler made these thoughts much more solid in my mind. My animation program is geared toward 3D animation (something that no one at either of the summer studios bothered to inform me of, naturally), which requires the program Autodesk Maya.  This program is not very user friendly and very disorienting for me, as well as being very dependent on knowing keyboard shortcuts to be able to do anything. Unfortunately, the 16 classes I have left to take in order to graduate all focus on working in Maya. I've talked to both my mother and my academic advisor about this, and while my mother has yet to give me a definite go or don't go, my AA said that if I'm not happy working with the Maya program, I won't be able to put forth the best efforts I can, my work will not be the best it could be, and I will end up failing the classes anyway. Not only that, but the stress of working with a program taht I'm convinced hates me is effecting my mental health. I've had headaches, problems sleeping, and felt like bursting into tears randomly for no reason whatsovever.

Don't bother trying to convince me whether or not this is a good idea. Ultimately, the decision is mine, even if my parents disapprove. Don't worry, I'll still be around. This is quitting a school I'm talking about, it's not like I'm going to do something horrible to myself or others (which is awful and I would never, never, NEVER joke about). This will not effect any of the projects I've been working on in terms of stuff I've posted on deviantART and YouTube, aside from a minor thing I was working on with ~ZootyCutie for Weirdies stuff that required Illustrator, which I do not own. In fact, it may even give me more time for these projects (aside from the Illustrator one, of course). Not having to worry about classes and homework would give me more time to write, do comics, and record and edit LP videos. Why did I bother making this public if it won't effect anything online? ...Well, admittingly, I just wanted the chance to get it off my chest.

EDIT: I had a discussion today with my AA today. He suggested that instead of completely dropping out, I could change majors from animation to graphic design, which he says it much closer to my original goal of graphic novels. I think I'll go with that instead. Gives me more time to spend with my friends, at the very least, and my mom is very supportive of this option (no surprise, considering it's my parents' money that's paying for my schooling). So yeah. Not quitting, just taking a different path on the road. Thanks to everyone that understood when I was considering dropping out, regardless. It's nice to know that there are so many people who care.

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