I really want to find an alternative school where I will enjoy my education

Hey.
I'm 18...graduated at 17 and have been just living and learning on my own for a while.

I feel as though it's time to head back to some sort of learning institute but I HATE classrooms. I have intense ADD (I know, eeevverrryone does but I refuse medication) and I have this neurological condition where I literally feel my sight and sound. That can make sitting somewhere in a room full of people really difficult if I'm trying to concentrate as I block out all other sounds (or try)

Anyway. I love to paint, I want to learn carpentry, I love nature but I also love the amount of people in the city. I'm open to go anywhere. I'm pretty smart, and did pretty well in school...



The thing is, I genuinely love to learn ... I just don't want to jump through all the hoops of normal university. The whole educational system is bullshit, and if I'm going to go to school (which I feel I should) then I want somewhere like where I went my last year of high school. It was a charter school (public) for the arts... 4 classes a day, art every day, family, community

So yeah... Any ideas?

Thanks!!

 

your idea of school sounds like just what i would love to find... unfortunately i cant :/ let me know if u find anything!

 

go to community college until you have a more solid idea of what you want to focus on. this is coming from someone who went to a top quality private university, and a top notch public university, i took a year off and traveled and painted, i still have no idea nad i feel like i wasted a ton of money on a school that couldn't cut it with my lifestyle.

 

I totally sympathize. The large state universities are just as bureaucratic and full of b.s. as a government agency. I have two daughters in college and I hear about this all the time.

Having said that, though, lots of universities have a provision for designing your own program. There's a minimum framework of courses, but you're free to create your own curriculum and decide what courses to take. That might be worthwhile looking into.

 

Yeah...I should be heading down to Austin, TX pretty soon and I'll probably just start taking some classes at ACC.
I'll make something work....

 

Yeah, that's absolutely the sense I got from them. I know there must be a few out there that would be better suited for me.

I want to find a college version of the high school I went to for my senior year. Small (30 kids in my graduating class. Obviously this can be a bit bigger), laid back but with a focus on your art and passion. 4 classes a day, art every day.
Something with more of that kind of attitude

 

Check out Warren Wilson. It's tiny, and you can focus on the things you mentinoned. It's close to Asheville, NC, too. Im going to go on a college visit there soon. Good luck finding a place!

 

I was going to take an A.A. course in Forest Resources Management which was a direct transfer to Oregon State B.A. course, which I thought would be a really cool subject, but now im moving to Montreal and taking culinary. I would think itd be hard to find a degree program without a very rigid structure, though I heard Evergreen in Washington you can build your own courses for a liberal arts degree