The truth of why I chose my major

Hi everyone, when we are little we always dream of what we want to be when we grow up, I had always wanted to be a gymnast. I always admired watching the gymnasts in the Olympic Games, with their colorful and bright costumes, their routines on the mat and the music they used for each competition, it was something that really fascinated me!  That dream started to fade away when I became a teenager and started to have more awareness of life, so my second option was to study digital animation and video game design. It was a career that amazed me, watching Tim Burton's Stop Motion movies, how he managed to give life to characters that were really static and through many photographs made them move, I loved it!

So in the end I decided to study visual arts! My art teacher at school convinced me and supported me to study arts, I’ve always been gifted artistically, and the career I wanted before was not too different from studying visual arts. When I got into the university I fell in love with the career, seeing the variety of things we could do; being able to paint, printmake and doimg ceramics. That last one I mentioned is the one that marked me the most. I can say that my experience at the university has been overall quite good, my teachers have been very good and are understanding, my friends and classmates are incredible, I am very grateful for meeting them, although sometimes there are too many things to do for each class and that makes me feel physically and mentally fatigued, but despite that I really enjoy what I'm studying, I would not change it for anything else. 😁