<p>thanks for all of your advice!!! It really helped a lot. I have NO idea what I'm going to do with my life- so I'll start in college. Like you said, jazzymom, i've got nothing to lose just by trying (hey, it's cheap enough anyways!) I think I'll just go ahead and get a degree in something fairly lucrative like pre-med, that way I'll have something that I can easily fall back on should I decide that I don't actually want to make my passion my career. I'll probably, at the very least, do some study abroad or internship to satisfy my desire to bake :D jyankees, what kind of a job does your brother have if you dont mind me asking? And what did he study? culinary arts or baking/pastry arts or management etc?</p>