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The semester is nearly over. I don't know why I was freaking out so much, really the workload is nothing once it's broken down into small steps. I've even found that I could easily get everything done in a quarter of the time I have, which leaves me ample time to read David Sedaris books and take long naps. I just went to school to pick up supplies for one of my last projects and saw my friend Alex working in an open room. I was talking with him and apparently he's just as dissatisfied with FIT's academic environment as I am. His resolution was to take classes at NYU in addition to fashion design. This semester he took Quantum Physics at $100/credit! According to him, FIT and NYU have a little arrangement where NYU students can take classes here while FIT students can take classes there. So, if he's correct, I could get an NYU education for as little as $1,700/semester. He also thinks that Columbia may have a similar program and thinks I would have no problem getting in. John, Nick, and now Alex are all people of a certain mind-set: that life is inherently easy. I, on the other hand, am convinced that life is hard and that obstacles are deliberately placed in my way to keep me from doing what I want. I think that there's a specific formula for achieving happiness and if I don't follow this formula exactly, I'll never succeed. I don't even know what this formula is and that's what's getting me so down recently. Some people just have a clear understanding of how the system works and are ingenuitive enough to make it work to their advantage. How did they get like this and how can I learn to as well?