I was born in the fall of 2003 to two incredibly loving parents and three amazing siblings. By the time I turned five, we had welcomed my younger brother into the family, and I began learning what it meant to be a big brother. My mom was an accountant, and my dad was a designer. Ever since I can remember, I’ve been captivated by the work my dad did. From downloading simple programs and developing my skills to mastery—like SketchUp—to diving into the Adobe Creative Suite, the idea of taking something from my mind and turning it into something real and tangible has always sparked a deep yearning in me. The creative and least concrete facets of my mind could be expressed through a variety of art forms—and that drove me.

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By the time I was thirteen, I had already mastered Premiere Pro and Illustrator, with other programs following soon after. I bought a camera and began experimenting with photography and filmmaking. I turned to music as a way to express the emotions that words alone couldn’t fully capture. By the time I graduated high school—third in a class of roughly seven hundred students—I had familiarized myself with a wide range of photography and film equipment, learned music production software like Ableton, and became proficient in media tools such as Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. I could play over ten instruments and had an unwavering desire to keep growing.

 

Now, here at the University of Georgia, I’ve set my sights on that same goal: to strive for excellence in everything I do and grow in every way I can.