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our school is in the middle of a place that has like, residencies and shit so there's always randos who aren't part of the school outside of the school. it's like, imagine a school in a mall, but the mall is basically just offices and cheap apartments. it's also an art school, and being in the visual art program sometimes i have to haul half finished drawings and paintings around the mall area. there's a lot of weird people who will come up to you when you're like, just waiting the bus or something, so when these guys started whispering to each other and pointing to me i thought they were being weird, but then one of them came up to me, pointed to this drawing i was working on in white charcoal, and went, "wow, you really drew that?" and i said, "yeah", and he turned to the other guy and went "they drew that! with like, chalk or something" and the other one said something like "yeah there's an art school in here! these kids really are amazing"

i was rlly stressed over the drawing cuz it was a final but honestly that exchange made the whole process easier