College Bound

I owe this place my life.

OK so it's not that dramatic, but I do owe them a lot.

I went to College Bound in 1997. It was right after I had flunked out of the Pre-Med curriculum at UC Davis as a result of too much partying my freshman year causing me to fall way behind in classes like O.Chem 1A and therefore not be able to pass O.Chem 1B or 1C. Also factoring into the mix was the fact that I didn't really want to go into medicine and be sucked into becoming a doctor for the next 12 years of my life.

So I failed out of Davis and felt like a failure at the time, but it turned out to be the best thing for me. My parents had me meet with College Bound where they were incredibly helpful in assessing my strengths and weaknesses, as well as my interests and passions. I told them I had taken art during my year away in England and I've always enjoyed making birthday cards and drawing. So College Bound suggested I pursue Graphic Design. At the time there weren't a lot of kids going into graphic design and there were so many companies out there that needed design services.

So I enrolled at Monterey Peninsula College and started taking design classes, then went to art school in S.F. and 10 years later... I'm practicing design and I really love what I do. I get the chance to make a difference and touch people's lives with pro bono work. I get to create for a living.

I seriously don't know if I would have ended up here if it weren't for College Bound. Sometimes it's helpful to get a different perspective and give you that one little spark that puts everything in motion.