I come from Ahmedabad, India. A city of six million souls and a place of countless dreams

1Where I’m from....

And I am....

a transplant, an immigrant, a transnational, a traveller, a bit hyper active, an artist, an optimist, a designer, a dreamer, still looking for an identity...

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My journey to CCA has been....

Very exciting and full of exciting discoveries.I entered college as an artist and decided to make the transition to become a designer.

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Being a designer is very different from being an artist.

4The transition....

I am interested in leveraging the power of communication to foster co-operation amongst people, so that we all move towards a better tomorrow together

5In this new life....

Through my time at CCA, I’ve been enrolled in the Interaction Design Program. I grown a lot as a person and have been exposed to many different perspectives

6My time at CCA....

how to tell stories, be an ethnographer, how to approach problems and challanges, skills I never thought I’d learn, and of coursemy own strengths and weaknesses, and of course how to fail

7I’ve learnt....

generating goofy ideas, acting out stories and being dramatic, and coming up with puns

8I have the most fun....

get a meaningful summer job that’ll get me closerto what I want to do for the next five years. Learn more skills and become a better craftsman

9This year I hope to....

Design has made me....

very optimistic about the future, made me feel empowered and made me realize that it is important that I be of service to others..

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My essence....

lie in travelling around the world and form deeper connections with people and take the opportunity to learn as much as I can from them

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Future5 years from now, I see myself here...Nairobi, Kenya.