Anyway, that's what you're thinking, I suppose, in that you're not fond of the cumbersome restrictions. What IS it you are taking in college anyway? You say you're trying to better yourself as an artist and writer. Are you taking creative writing or some such thing?
I'm in the Animation and Game Design Program, studying to be a texture artist or 3d modeler. I enjoy writing too, so I figured I might as well polish up my literary skills while I'm here.
Technically I'm a high school student, as I haven't graduated yet, but my college classes count towards high school credit. I plan on finishing my Animation course before graduating from high school. That way I don't have to pay for anything 
It's refreshing to see that so many people still value the english language and are willing to debate its nuances.
As for the topic of frustrations... people who pay no attention to their language and constantly butcher it are annoying. Especially when they're old enough that they should know better.
Well, you know, if you plan on completing university/college, High School is really redundant. I never finished it, yet I'm a grad student in Classical langauges with an undergrad in engineering, so it hardly matters anymore. And, heh, as I told RD, such things as I was debating don't appear in English. My grammatical training is actually ancient Greek/Latinate in form. That's why I have a strong familiarity with forms of nouns and verbs: to translate, as I often have to do (and even write on occassion) one has to have a strong understanding and familiarity with how the structure works. It's not exactly as English, but you'd be amazed at some of the similarities. However, for structural understanding, it's wonderful: there is so much in those languages that we have lost in English, whether it is the manifold forms of verbs, or the various declensions. Things that exist now only in the difference between 'I' and 'me', in Greek and Latin pervade every word, so simply by saying a noun you know if it's singular or plural, masculine or feminine, or if it's the nominative, genetive, dative, accusative, or ablative. I quite enjoy that all, and most of the time it transfers... so I tend to think 'now, how would this be constructed in Latin?'
Anyway, good luck in the studies. Though my admonishment would be if you intend to write better don't worry about learning it via direct teaching. Far the best teacher of those things is in studying the masters. So read things, and see how it's done. I don't think it can be taught much of any other way. It's an art, and either one has the gift to write well or not. Technical writing, for sure, can be taught, but for the rest that one has to be born with, and is inspired by reading the great works.
Although form is important, on the paper I wrote on mythology for Latin, I threw in one of my favorite lines and still got an A.
'Oh, this is only the beginning.
Cronus wanted babies.
WITH HIS SISTER.'
I love that line. It's phrased just as I typed it here.
Latin... shouldn't it be Saturn, then?
