Portfolio class

Okie dokie, we're definitely going back to where I left off a few years ago. But first here is a short recap of everything.

• I had a steady job at Vulcan Materials.
• I started thinking about my future and wanted to do more with my life.
• I figured out what I wanted to do and did some research on a college to attend.
• Got my nuts and bolts organized, quit Vulcan and enrolled at the Art Institute of Charlotte.
• Nearly went crazy from all the homework and assignments I had to do.
• And lastly, I freakin graduated!!!

Hang on just a minute... before I was eligible to graduate, I had to complete this class called... Portfolio. Hot dang that class was a monster. This class was a collaboration of almost everything I've working on as far as projects throughout my entire school year. Lucky for me, I caught word about this during my 1st quarter. I heard that if you didn't have your work saved, you either had to do it again or do something different in it's place. It was exactly everything though. I had to have 12 projects in my portfolio and then the next degree had to have 14 and the next 16.

So... in order to graduate, we had to take our existing projects, and make them look better... a lot better. We had to show what we had learned and make our crap projects look like we had some schooling. Now the final project was the big one. Since I was a web design major, we had to go through this big thought process on coming up with a name  and designing our very own site, upload it to the web and then showcase all of our work on that site. Not to mention stand before the web instructors and give this speech about what our projects were about and why. Then we had to talk about our new website and how it was going to be a thriving business... so to speak.

Now for someone that's never done that before, it felt like a ton of pressure on my shoulders. But I did it, and I graduated!!! That was actually the worst part. The only thing to do after that  was to strut our stuff at the portfolio show that the school put on for us. That was the fun part to me. It was held at the convention center uptown and it just had that refreshing feeling like... I FINALLY MADE IT!!!!

And the rest... they say is history.