Oh The Places I'll Go!

So it’s the night before my big trip and a part of me still cannot believe I am here! I am finally on my way home (Cue the lyrics from The Head and the Heart’s “Down In the Valley”). It’s been twenty years coming and the time has finally returning to Nigeria. While my older brothers and sister were born and raised there for a few years, after the birth of my twin brother and I we moved to Sydney, Australia. Six years following our move to Australia we then packed our bags to leave to America. Needless to say, I’ve been quite busy since my initial departure.

I am beyond excited, apprehensive, curious, and joyous.

1. [Turing tape] You need an idea notebook.

2. [Open-minded] Do not aim to solve some specific problem.

3. [Proliferate and select] You may need 10 to 100 ideas before you find a good one.

4. [Aloof] Avoid feeling part of any specific academic community.

5. [Be the boss] Avoid working for anyone, and that includes a granting agency.

6. [Data] Don’t publish without data.

7. [Sloth] Avoid all but the simplest experiments, and avoid building complex tools.

Mark Changizi, author of Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man, on the 7 requirements for all effective scientists. (via explore-blog)

My Wayward Child

So I stumbled across these words today…

Story of my life. I’ve felt this way ever since my last first day of college and that notion has haunted my thoughts ever since. Some days I would remember to actually come up with a plan and other days the best thing I could do was deny that the day after graduation was closer than ever. So, as the hours got longer somehow the days got shorter - fears will do that to you. It then dawned on me, I’m not in this alone. The brunt of this choice does not lie on my shoulders alone but God’s too. After going to Him in prayer, he said if you’re truly not ready, stay in incubation for a little while longer (okay, maybe not in those exact words but something similar). With that said, I applied to grad school.

I got to say, the waiting period after sending in my final portfolio pieces and my transcript… can’t even put into words the mix of emotions I had running through me. You know, the ones like: What if I don’t make it?” “Ahhh! Did I send in the right pieces?” “Shoot, did I put in the right address for them to contact me?” “What if getting into grad school is not God’s plan for me and I just thought it was and now I’m gonna be stuck in Oregon foreeeeeevvvvvveeeeerrrr?”

Anyway, long story short, short story long, I received this in the mail…

I got accepted into HOGWARTS!!!

Actually, no. I won’t be attending that school, I’ll be going to the University of New South Wales for their College of Fine Arts Program for Photo Media. Yeah. The only bummer part about this all is that my acceptance letter did not come on parchment in handwritten calligraphy. Oh well, I’ll just have to find someway to deal.

So, here is to the future. Here is to STILL not knowing what I want to do with it but being sure that God is ALWAYS there to lead me away from the path of the wayward.

I love how when I watched the new trailer for Bruce Willis’ Die Hard movie it only took me a second to realize that the words, “Die Hard” are not aligned with “A Good Day To”. The “D” in “Die” could have been adjusted to the left a bit more and “D” in “Hard” is protruding over the invisible line. Being an ad major has turned me into a monster.

I love how when I watched the new trailer for Bruce Willis’ Die Hard movie it only took me a second to realize that the words, “Die Hard” are not aligned with “A Good Day To”. The “D” in “Die” could have been adjusted to the left a bit more and “D” in “Hard” is protruding over the invisible line. Being an ad major has turned me into a monster.

I love how when I watched the new trailer for Bruce Willis’ Die Hard movie it only took me a second to realize that the words, “Die Hard” are not aligned with “A Good Day To”. The “D” in “Die” could have been adjusted to the left a bit more and “D” in “Hard” is protruding over the invisible line. Being an ad major has turned me into a monster.

I love how when I watched the new trailer for Bruce Willis’ Die Hard movie it only took me a second to realize that the words, “Die Hard” are not aligned with “A Good Day To”. The “D” in “Die” could have been adjusted to the left a bit more and “D” in “Hard” is protruding over the invisible line. Being an ad major has turned me into a monster.

Port of Folio

You know when you were little and you finished a project and thought it was the craftiest and coolest thing in the world only to look back later and question how you ever passed it off as completed? Yeah, long story short, I’m redoing my online portfolio.

I think I have redone it and repositioned the layout about one thousand times over. Yay for perfection right?

Here is a little snippet of what I’ve got cooking in the kitchen (okay, more like a kitchenette but whatever).