I started to dabble in small graphic-related projects as a teenager despite being relatively clueless and uninterested about art in and of itself (or so I thought). However, I'd been very technologically adept since a very early age, and something about design software fascinated me. Meanwhile, without being fully cognizant of it, I already tended to notice all kinds of design minutiae most people miss. In high school, I had my first actual design stint as layout editor for the school newspaper. Had I known what “this” actually was at the time, I would have enrolled in art school. Instead, I narrowly viewed it through the lens of journalism, which I chose as my major at Boston University before deciding that world was not for me. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in History, I wandered through the desert for a few years working as a departmental administrator at a prestigious business school. My experience there led me to Emerson College, where I earned a Master of Arts in Communication Management with an emphasis on organizational identity. The state of the economy post- Great Recession combined with a desire to not waste my degree led me to focus on a specific tactical area of the field. Thus my interest in design, which had quietly remained constant over these years, was rekindled. Given my existing credentials, I chose New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University to pursue a Certificate in Graphic Design. My path to becoming a designer could ultimately have been less circuitous, but it is one I'm glad to have taken because I know I ended up where I belong.