Learning is so much more than school to me. The typical system of education has little value in my eyes. We grow from reading between the lines and infusing passion into our environments. I couldn’t tell you in a neat format about my influences and learning stories, but I can tell you all about how I experience life because that’s where I believe discoveries and knowledge are …show more content…
Fearless courage. I feel like I can’t be anything other than this. I have younger siblings looking up to me, family members that I can’t let down, hell, even a city to make my own and the world to change. Working without rest to please and also to make something of myself, for me alone. I don’t have anything to fall back on, I’m not sure I ever have. I was taught when I was little that my life is in my own two hands and supported by my own two feet; that whatever I wanted, I had the ability to achieve on my own. And I took it to heart, I’ve been through countless hours of pain and frustration, working for my family, and learning for a better education. The fact that I’m standing her at MIAD now, will never cease to amaze me. Coming this far, and getting myself into college blows my mind after being raised without a lot of money or external expectations beyond the agriculture I was born into and built by. This place here and all of its trials are a gift to me. The hours of homework and studio time is nothing but the best chance I’ve ever been given. Because you can’t go back, or at least I can’t go back, the one weekend I’ve went home, I wanted only to be here. I’ve had to learn so many things just to survive the past that the present is enjoyable and exhilarating for