I was born in Hong Kong and raised in a small suburban town half an hour north of Toronto. Markham is a fantastic fortune cookie-cutter town. People there are nice, honest, humble, and very green. At 18 I realized I needed to be more than what suburbia could give me. I wanted to be better. So I dropped all my plans to do business or computer science in college and decided that I want to do something creative. I got into Miami Ad School.
But I didn’t have the money nor the support to move to Miami.
I stayed in Toronto and went to York University. My major was Anthropology, something I never intended to study but also something I’ll never regret studying (my advisor conned me into this major, saying there was an advertising course in it).
Two years later, I got my ducks in a row, applied to Miami Ad School again, and finally moved to South Beach. I spent my first year in Miami, and for the majority of my second year of the program I was in Minneapolis. Not having seen a lot of this world nor tried a lot of things before (as well as being shameless) I made a lot of mistakes. Luckily, I met quite a few amazing friends along the way to pick me up.
Two totally different cities but I think I got the best of both worlds.
Today I’m 22 and I just graduated from Miami Ad School. I don’t have anything planned for tomorrow, but I have a goal – I still want to be better. So trust me: I’m young, passionate and honest.
“For your ideas to be better, you have to be better.” – Diego from my Intro To Strategy class
