DIY

I would like to believe that I have been apart of the DIY culture for a long time. Since I have been young I have liked to do things myself. My parents still sometimes tease me about my unswayed and stubborn urge to do everything myself. Making is something of a lost art that needs to be brought back. When I decide that I need something the first thing I think to myself is I could totally make that, and when it is subwoofers for my car I come to my senses 5 minutes later and just buy them from someone who actually knows what they are doing. But when its a dog house for the back yard, or a new bike, that is when I go to work.

At one point or another I realized that school was not enough for me. It was just busy work and tests, not real learning. That was the point at which I would say I put school on a side burner and move on to actually tech myself something. From that point one I always had a project. It may have been a rc car, or a birdhouse, or a computer program, but it was alway something. I would go through the some process: I wanted something so I would figure out how to make it. Through this I had a lot of success, but also a lot of failure. More often than not something would go terribly wrong mid project, and that would be the end. But even when that happened I learned something, and the was the whole idea. In college I am hoping to be able to get back to academic learning, and actually get something out of it. DIY is in my blood and because of that I do not think I will ever stop trying to make things.