The damn school couldn't provide me with housing for the year, so I'm not providing them with my money. REGRETTABLY, I could have applied earlier, but they certainly could have called me at least a dozen times, since I called them and left messages on machines to certain housing/residence officials that many times over.

So what am I left with ?
A vast supply of Facebook friends I probably will never meet.
A useless school email address.
Orientation papers that will be recycled.
And knowing that I'll have to spend this entire semester at UNH (again).

But what else can I do ?
Re-applying to Emerson College, where I was previously wait-listed and then rejected in the Spring.
Deffer until January (but do I want to have the same problems I had before ? Not really).
Apply other places.
OR SKIP SCHOOL ENTIRELY.
(Hey - I could do it --- and my parents could disown me).

Most successful filmmakers never attended film school (Paul Thomas Anderson dropped out of NYU in the first week), but how can I hopefully excell in my visual development as a Cinematographer ?

Hmmm. So many choices, and none of them clear.

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image = newyorkmetro.com

Just yesterday, I had the displeasure of watching the family drama Imaginary Heroes,
a suburban fable about a family who experiences a heartbreaking loss, and continues their downward spiral by getting totally depressed. Newbie director/writer Dan Harris can't decide if these boneheads are going through a phase or the real deal - the big sister slips her quirk-doesn't-fit-in little brother drugs in the bathroom when she visits, and the parents, Jeff Daniels and Sigourney Weaver, are completely wasted (I mean, in actor usage terms). By the end of the movie, I was pissed that I had spent nearly two hours watching a modernized version of Ordinary People, equipped with teenage sexuality, stupid neighbors, community service, high school bully issues, and binge parties (and to be honest, none of it was even slightly convincing or entertaining).
By the end of the film, supercool teen actor Emile Hirsch has to play the 'could be gay' card, and we're given completely ridiculous answer to why he 'doesn't fit in' with his family. If I had wanted to see this movie in the theaters, I'm sure I would have walked out within the first 45 minutes. If you are going to enter the deep end to see Imaginary Heroes, swim at your own risk.

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