"Sitting Inside" is meant for anyone who's been missing someone. I know this feeling is felt by many, and I wanted to sympathize and create a song for everyone. When things get scary, you often want the people closest to you to be there and comfort you. Unfortunately, that's often not possible during these times. This was written so others may feel less alone with their own feelings, and know that there will be a time where we can all be together again. After finishing my first year in Media Production, I was able to use my skills to express my feeling about the pandemic in a creative format. I wrote the song for all of my closest friends and family who I was missing while being stuck in my house alone. This prompted me to get out all the feelings of stress, anxiety, and uncertainty through a song.

This poem is the first poem in the first-ever book I wrote. It was inspired by the notion that new beginnings significantly impact our lives. How we put so much importance on a new year, a new job starting day, even the day you meet a new person. That's not wrong, beginnings can be exciting. The thing is, we put that importance only on certain days. Meanwhile, every single day is a new beginning with that same magic of the hope to create something beautiful. It's freeing to think about every day as a new beginning because you don't pressure yourself to meet those resolutions or expectations because you give yourself a chance to do it every day. To be a bit better with each passing day. No harsh deadlines or unreasonable expectations. Just taking life day by day, because that's all it really is, a bunch of days. Might as well enjoy all of them instead of a select few.   It helped me through my first year in Ryerson. Going to Ryerson was a really big culture shock for me, and I felt really alone. I felt intimidated by all the wonderful achievement students and felt as though I didn't belong. I kept thinking, I just need to wait for my time, the right time, the stars aligned time. I think it was with my first failed quiz when I realized I just need to choose to make it my time. To take all of these new changes day by day, encouraging myself to take risks even if they are as small as talking to someone new. I chose to see every day as an exciting beginning filled with unlimited potential. Now I'm an achieving student too. My path may be different from a lot of my peers, but I wouldn't have it any other way, because it's my own, and no one else's. After all, your experiences don't define who you are but determine who you choose to become , and I chose to become someone I am proud of being.

Going into my fourth year of the Photography program at Ryerson, I've been thinking a lot about my style of photography and where I want to head in the future, so I've been doing a lot of contemplation and reflection that is demonstrated by this photograph. Additionally, I came to Toronto from the ocean-side city of Vancouver, BC and this photograph reminds me of always keeping my roots close to me as I pursue my goals here in Toronto.

Skyline in the night shows what is deep in my heart

As Ryerson is known as a commuter school I thought it would be interesting to bring that idea into writing with a haiku poem. Commuting can take up quite a bit of your time and most commuters will sleep to make time move by quicker.

I've always been really drawn to creating new things or recreating them , while adding my own nuances but when it comes to painting or sketching, I always find a reason not to. Digital art has always been something I've wanted to try and the lockdown gave me all the more reason to do so. The ease of working and the diversity of options made me finally turn to the (digital) easel.

This piece is an abstract composition of my creative confidence and it involves four of my creative capabilities at work. My four creative capabilities are sketching, painting, photography, and interior decorating. I'd like to say that doing any of these gives me a boost in my creative confidence and enables me to be more aesthetically expressive with myself. Since this piece involves all four of my creative capabilities, looking at it makes me feel inventively empowered which is one of the reasons why I love it so much. I hope that this piece can inspire others to have that creative confidence so that they are not afraid to hold themselves back creatively!

A visual list of my goals, dos and don’ts for the Fall Semester.