 My major achievement through this first year as a sophomore scholar has been the development of my self-confidence as an artist and designer. This would probably be my second favorite class, industrial design. I have a passion for fashion so I ended up doing fashion design. I grew up in Haiti. I hope to be able to design buildings so that it's earthquake proof. I've always dreamt of becoming an interior designer and each of the workshops and seminars have reaffirmed that dream. One of my favorite workshops was the Jell-O ideation program. We got to work with some really great mentors, Carla and Mike. When we finally got there, it didn't stop. We were just so excited the whole time. The instructor that we had, he was probably one of the most amazing teachers there because he pushed you to do your best. Mark and Sherry are just great people to be around. Talking to them and seeing how they run their studio and how they go through the normal day of being a designer. It's just impacted my life so much. The thing that Nigel taught me is that don't draw one big drawing. Draw many little ones and choose from those which one you would want. I got to look at different designers' portfolios and their profiles and see their resumes and help allocate them for different positions with these big companies. So it was really cool. One of my most exciting parts was the site visit. I can't tell you the client, but I can tell you that it's really going to look awesome when it's done. Skidmore Owens is one of the largest architecture companies in the world. It was a great opportunity for me to work for them. I feel very honored and very prideful about it. When I tell people where I'm working, I'll tell them I'm working for S.O.M. New Jersey. I worked with Mark and everybody else in the studio to come up with the colors and how it's going to be designed. I got to see the pressure. There's a lot of critique. There's a lot of competition. But I think that it really is worth it at the end of the day. One of my primary ideas as a designer, as a young teenage designer, is something called the designer's eye. I just want to thank the Kupertuit staff for making this entire opportunity possible and for reopening my designer's eye. Thank you.