I’ve never been great with rules

I don’t know what it is about me. Maybe it’s that I’m an immigrant who’s moved around a lot as a child, or maybe I’m just someone with an artistic temperament, but I’ve never been great with rules. I’m always trying my best to follow the law, but forget about the rules. It’s been a challenge ever since I was young, and it has been an issue with me fitting in with most social situations for most of my life. Again, I don’t know where this is coming from or what the source of this desire to break the rule is. There’s just something about me that naturally gravitates toward standing out from the crowd. 

My hypothesis is that I will feel good as a professional in the arts, and that that is where my people are in life. I’m excited to get a taste of that field with the upcoming Making + Meaning experience at Sci Arc and I feel it will be a great opportunity to see if architecture is in fact right for me. I think it is, but it has to financially make sense. There’s a lot of women entering the architecture profession at the moment, but it is still sort of historically regarded as a man’s world–or a gentleman’s profession as it is known. Again, I don’t know if I will have another opportunity to transition after this stage. Maybe it is truly now or never.