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My transition from high school to college & the mindset I learned from it
Morning after morning I would learn the Pythagorean Theorum, English, and History, yet never have any interest in them.
Since I had made the switch to homeschool for highschool, I certainly had more time to play Minecraft, but it didn’t give me any love for what I was learning.
As a 16 year old kid, not only did I have to do studying — but chores, too!
Could life get any worse?
The problem
What I struggled with was not having the discipline to study on my own.
After having years in public school to make me feel confident that school was dumb & I wasn’t learning anything (it was really boring), all I wanted to do was play video games.
The solution
Since I was accustomed to thinking that school sucked, when I finally had freedom at home — it didn’t change.
Until… something clicked.
I was working through an Algebra problem, and having been playing around with Blender 3D the months before, I realized how much math helped make the complex models I was building.
To make 3D visible on a computer after all, it takes a lot of both geometry & algebra — something that, sure, I had known. But it hadn’t appealed to me before diving into designing fun 3D models.
Soon enough, algebra became interesting to me. I was solving a real-life problem with it!
When I moved into college, it only got better. Because now I’m studying 3D concepts for my Graphic Design degree.
That’s when I learned:
Find your passion ← don’t mask it.