Fluvanna County school systems only had a budget enough for traditional art mediums. When I decided a discipline for college, I became acutely aware of how uneducated I was in art. My mother convinced me to chose Graphic Design, though I knew nothing about it.
So I walked into Longwood University blind because I knew nothing about Graphic Design and could only use a PC. The singular click of an Apple mouse threw me off and I'd find myself using PC codes that often did something decidedly different. The first program I latched onto was Adobe Illustrator, fascinated by the varied styles a vector program could create.

Illustrator was the easiest to learn, because of the parallel to traditional drawing. Adobe Photoshop and QuarkXPress followed, albeit more slowly. Within four years I had learned a whole new approach to art, and decidedly, loved it far more.
Traditional art gave me the talent to see details, and graphic design gave me the skill to exploit it. Subsequently, Fluvanna County High School finally got a Graphic Design program, giving other students a chance to learn what I have. My journey has been long, and often had more steps than other peoples'. But the more I think on it, I wouldn't have it any other way.