Therefore, in the first quarter at Lake Washington Tech I took
a class called Interactive Media Design, which is part of art
program. Little did I know, this class would have a big impact
on my life. At first, I was thrown off by the teacher’s teaching
style. For example, the first day of class we all sat around a
table and talked about games. However, as time went on the
teacher’s unique perspective on different subjects and
knowledge of the gaming industry made me really respect him
and want to learn from him. I wanted to impress him so he
would acknowledge me. One day, the teacher assigned us to
bring and show anything in class so I had a chance to show my
skills. I put in a lot of effort to create an interactive mouse
application to show the class (the application interacted with
the user according with the position of the mouse), which
really impressed him. This set in motion a chain of events that
would alter my life.
After creating many challenging but successful applications
for the school, my teacher gave me the opportunity to be part
of the PAX club. This club is made up of artists and a few
programmers that create games that might get to go to the
PAX gaming convention, which is held for 3 days out of the
year. In this club, I was able to find a lot of people who were