Well, Ben, you could start off using the same film, chemicals, processing times and temperatures that you use as school. You could also ask your photo teacher for suggestions.(posted 8101 days ago)The reason I answer this way, is you do not specify black and white, color, whether you are doing prints or transparencies or your plans for the resulting images.
This is a good forum with a lot of knowedgable people, but we need some more information if we are to give you some help.