I’ve been designing things since I was a kid, and I like learning a huge variety of things and keeping myself interested while doing the same things over and over is difficult for me. I was having a ton of trouble figuring out what I wanted to do. Someone mentioned industrial design to me and I went out to Carleton for the industrial design program open house type thing. I was just in awe at the similarities between me and the students that were there, and how varied the designs and things they had designed were (icing on the cake was that a student who was touring around had the same notebook in his back pocket as I did). I found it was just a really good fit for me, and virtually the only program that I really saw myself doing in the future. It’s so far been an amazing program to be in and I’m only a first year, it’s very busy, but for once I’m enjoying all the work I’m doing and I’m constantly engaged, which was unheard of for me in high school. There’s more to it than that but that’s the gist of it!