Today is national day of writing scholarships and applications to majors etc. Here's a little somethin' somethin'.

Looking back over my last 10 or so years, I see such an aptitude for Interior Design that I can’t believe nobody ever saw it, or at least not until a few years ago. When my dad, sister and I moved, he made it up to us to do the entire house. We chose a warm sage color, black, and dark oak. It looked great in our little forest house. He brought home our new black leather sofa and we were discussing where to put it. I looked at the room and told him where I felt it needed to go. He moved it all around before finally settling the sofa in the exact place I saw it should to go. He stepped back and was curiously surprised and how I just knew where it needed to go.

I spent the next three years repainting my bedroom at least four times, trying new schemes and design ideas each time. Closet doors on, off. New bed from garage sale, mattress on the floor. Drapes on window, drapes on ceiling. Sconce, hanging lamp. The furniture never stayed put in my room, that is, unless it felt right. And when it did, I just knew.

I came to SPU and took Dr. Kato’s Design Fundamentals. I truly enjoyed that class. It partly studied architecture, which has always interested me, as well as basic elements of any design study. Okay, I thought, I’ll go in a little deeper. I took the Intro to Interior Design class. I never knew college could be so fun. Toying with other majors stopped then and there. Somehow it just felt right.

There is something amazing about Interior Design that most people don’t realize. It is everywhere! And it affects us so much. Aesthetics are ingrained in our human senses to affect our moods, our productivity, our ability to relax, our appetites even. Maybe it is just a woman thing, but beauty is so important to me. I do not understand why, but for me to take my horrible, white brick dorm room, wallpaper it entirely with lavender tissue paper, and to have created a space that people just walk into and instantly love, well, I don’t think anything else could fulfill me nearly as much.

My desire in life is to create beauty. I want to draw people nearer to God with everything I do. In my singing, my one goal is for people to not see and watch me, doing my thing, but for them to see me as a vessel for God to use me to draw people to Him, and to appreciate who He is and what He does.

I am choosing Interior Design, rather than a business degree, because it is what I love. To create beauty and functionality is a living space is a need that EVERY SINGLE person has. I want my good eyes and developing talent for spatial orientation and colors and design to be able to bless people.

After my bachelors, I am planning on getting my Masters in either Architecture or continuing with Interior Design. Maybe there is a PhD in my future. Regardless, this is something that will shape my entire life and I cannot think of anything else I would rather do.