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by ami keita
“So what was your business plan?” A sentence I envision them asking, if I was ever to be
interviewed for our spectacular progress throughout the past weeks. I could stutter to put
together some cool answer, revealing that I must be one of those cool chicks, who has all the
ready-to-shout-out quotes in her back pocket. But I won’t. I’d tell them the truth. And the
truth is: I just went with it. I totally convinced myself this was a great plan, and because I
believed in it so badly, it actually became a great plan. Some sort of feeling started boiling in
my stomach, my sense telling me I was haunting my drive. I’ve been told that going to an art
school results in having a hard time after you’ll get your degree, finding the job you actually
wished for. Now I wonder why so many of you let this warning stop you from doing what
you’re most passionate about. As a child people ask you what it is you want to be, they’ll let
you dream about everything you believe in, without being told that fairy-tales don’t exist.
I for one believe this: together we stand stronger. We keep separating knowledge gained from
books and knowledge gained from creativity (read: the ability to fantasize and putting that
to use). When instead these two should be combined, so that inquiries like the ones I pointed
out, will not be left unanswered. You might have the drive to solve a partic [\