New Direction

It seems life likes to come crashing down all around you just when you think you have the perfect structure...
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As you all may or may not know, I love creativity to the nth degree and have so my entire life, but I am of Nigerian descent in America and the first child of six. With that said it makes sense that I would panic to find out that my heart no longer viewed Engineering and Art equally, Art has won by a near shutout...but almost too far into the game...
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You see, for the last few years of my short life, I was convinced that I was going to be an engineer of some kind because I loved creating thinks and watching them work but now I think that I was just lying to myself more or less because it's what my parents would love to hear. I've been in technology-focused education for as long as I can remember and even took robotics classes during summer breaks. I swore up and down to my parents that I would end up at one BLANK Institute of Technology or another BLANK Tech. But now, thanks to my experiences at my Science and Technology Internship Program at UMDCP, I realized that i was only in love with the creating part and not the work and theory behind it. Don't get me wrong, Engineering as a topic is still up there to me and will always have a place in my imagination, but I just plain love art and design more.
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The question is not how to prepare for getting this sort of education, just how I break it to my parents who've seen all the engineering schools filling up my mailbox with admissions forms and have started calling me 'Engineer Chuk" already. I have to prove to them that I can still attain a good level of capitalistic security in my chosen path, after all, they just want the best for me.
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Jesus save me....
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P.S. Thank you to all mentors, friends et al. who've provided me with a bit of knowledge and insight on my dilemma, you're all angels. If it wasn't for the combined 'do it', 'don't do it', 'here's what I did's etc., I would have to be an angry engineer when I was old instead of a happy artist.
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Sidney Lo,
Mr. Kyle,
Mr. Sully Jacks (sp?),
Vasco Mateus,
Mauricio Morales,
Fatmata (Fatima) Koroma,

and many more who I've missed. (Let me know.)

*Edit*

Kevin Rucker (The Phantom Hero himself)
Heron Preston