Walking Through Space

"I know who I was when I got up this morning, 
but I think I must have been changed several times since then." 
-Lewis Carroll, excerpted by Marshall McLuhan 

I hated my time here my first year. I had pleanty of friends and my sister was still going here then too. But I felt so lost, scared, and sad. I came in thinking I'd be a computer science major. After flunking the last math course and dropping out of the second computer science course, I knew it wouldnt be an option as a major or a minor. 

From there, I started exploring what else Id do. Though not a major or minor for me, I started taking a bunch of art classes. Art is awesome and I used to make art all the time when I was little, Im sure we all did in some ways. Having a more artistic mindset, I started taking photos that were actually good as opposed to my poorly composed and overexposed photos I'd taken in the past. I wanted to put together this book to capture some of my favorite shots and to commemorate my time here, at least the times that I wasn't drid.



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