One of my main hobbies while growing up was drawing. I have been drawing ever since I can remember; all I needed was pen and paper. That hobby continued as I was going through my life: watching cartoons, playing with the other kids, going to school, or just being home. I remember inventing, drawing or copying a cartoon or an animation character that I have seen from a scene. I was drawing wherever I was, in school and at home. Most of them were drawn in pencil because I wasn’t good at coloring them; they end up looking like colored by a bunch of infants, who got bored and played with the colors, when I actually put colors in it. I have entered contest, poster making for example, and have won and lost. This was until the 3rd grade and the 4th grade started computers, in which I am particularly a beginner.
Upon entering the fifth grade, a class called “Arts” became one of our subjects for the year. This subject involved anything that has to do with colors. I guess this was the time I had the chance to practice my coloring skills. This class also included painting. Some of my coloring and painting exercises were exhibited; they were considered some of the best in the entire 5th and 6th grade level. At the same time developing my coloring skills, we also did have exercises with computers, but mostly on typing notes and pages of stories only to improve our typing skills and make us comfortable with it. Since I didn’t have my own personal computer at home, I never had the chance to improve it.
High school was a different level; the subjects “Drafting” and “Computers” are now some of our main classes. We would have both of these subjects throughout high school. Since drafting was about using pencil and paper, I was having fun and making the best out of it, from “ISO” lettering to “3-point view” design of a certain object. And again, not to brag about it, some of my work was exhibited as some of the best and neatest among the level. I guess I have the passion of doing it. The term computer was not really that common to me. All I new about them back at high school years was to play online games and barely done research on the computer. I used books instead. Computer programming was one of the main topics in this subject; I didn’t much attention to it. I remember paying the smartest kid in class to do my assignment or project. I never realized this was where I will end up. I still remember the programming language that we used back and every time I look it up, I always tell myself how advance I am when it comes to computer programming. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to finish high school for it was time to move out of the country.
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To be an architect was actually my one and only choice as a program in college. Ever since I was a kid, I have always dreamed of being an architect, just drawing and sketching for the rest of my life. But everything changed when I realized that I have to take Physics, which would take me another two months in adult school, and submit a portfolio prior entering the mentioned program. And so I made a quick decision; take “Computer Science”. I took this program although I knew my knowledge about it is really weak. Well, I learned most of the things I know today: for example, building a computer, reading their specifications, programming, and learning commands. And ever since I entered this program, I have been involved with computers so much that it also became a hobby and passion.
