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My Journey from Urban Studies Major to Graphic Designer
What do you want to be when you grow up?
“I want to be an architect” I said, not the Art Vanderlay type (Seinfeld Reference), but a real architect. I was always drawing on graph paper and was constantly drawing layouts of homes, businesses, and who knows what from a young age. I had my favorite pencils, rulers, and types of graphic paper. All through high school I loved house plans and even took an AutoCAD class in high school.
Fast forward, to my second year of community college and I take a human geography class. Geography is fascinating. I love maps and geography, but this course challenged my idea of geography in new ways. It wasn’t just the maps I enjoyed, I enjoyed the sections on cultural, social, and urban geography. The study of cities.
Love for the City
If anyone knows me well, they know that I love the city. The diversity, vitality, and busyness of the streets, people, and buildings. I started pursuing that path and enrolled into the Urban Studies program at the University of Washington. It was here that I moved from a math focused to a humanities focused classroom. It was tough at first, reading and writing wasn’t my strong suit. I stayed with it and of course one of the toughest teachers in the program was the one I had the…
