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You might want to look into an internship or classes abroad: really, any sort of structured program. Unless you’re a hardcore autodidact, the combination of interesting everywhere and an unfamiliar, difficult subject might be too much, and you’ll end up not learning at all. This is almost a cliché with writers and artists, where they go abroad to be inspired and make art, and only come back inspired. As Dorothy Gambrell put it:

"Someone who shouldn’t be in charge of these things gave me a grant to make a short film about tourism in Western Europe. So between the manufacture of the last cartoon and this one I left North America for the first time, spending about three weeks in the UK-France-Germany-Italy. What did I get out of the trip? 'Elgin waffles.’” http://catandgirl.com/?p=1606