Hello! My name is Jack Garland and I am a Junior enrolled at both University of Oregon and Lane. I previously was a computer science major, however I decided I didn’t want to be in front of a screen for the rest of my life so I switched to the product design major. Since this decision set me back progress-wise, I am taking courses at Lane that I can transfer over to my major at University of Oregon, while saving what’s left of the college fund. I’ve always wanted to pursue the entrepreneurial side of business and hope to one day create a successful startup. I created a few startups before the age of 16, most of which were illegal, so you can say I’ve had this mentality for a while. In my free time I mostly hike and go to the gym, and I also go to about a concert or two a week. The last event I went to was a rave featuring an artist named Troyboi, and before that was Cordae. I actually am also going to see Denzel Curry tonight in Portland now that I think about it. I should probably get ready for that. Thanks for reading about me!

About me 

Hi my name is Ayden Erickson. I am 22 years old. I am a returning student from 2019. I took a break from school because I didn’t know what I wanted to have as a career. I didn’t see the point in adding on more stress as well as paying for classes when I am unsure what I want to do. During that break I played a lot of video games as well as worked a few different jobs. I would play games on a concoule but I have always been interested in playing on a computer. I had the opportunity to learn the ins and out of a computer from a hand me down computer. I started to watch videos and talk to people that had more experience than me. After I saved up enough money to buy new components, I got to build my computer myself. I fell in love with how computers work and playing games on them. So being undecided on what I want to do for work I thought I might as well go to school for something that has something to do with computers or even gaming. So as of right  now I am going to get my education in game development or design.  

By: Ayden Erickson

Hi, I’m Jake!

I’m a second year student at LCC. Initially I was pursuing an Associates of Arts Oregon Transfer degree here, with plans of transferring to another college in the future to pursue a degree in film study, but those plans changed recently. After the wonderful experience that was Jan Halvorsen’s ‘Drawing for Media’ class, along with many failed attempts at snagging one of Lane’s Film Arts classes, it has come to my attention that pursuing a career in animation may be preferable. Cartoons and video games always have and always will hold a special place in my heart, and I think it may be my goal to put myself within the industry of one or the other. The reason I say “I think” is because I am not yet certain if animation is the route for me. I am using this class, along with another to figure that out. The other class is called ‘Digital Design Tools’, and it seems to be primarily about learning how to use digital art programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator. Even if I discover that the media arts industry isn’t for me, at least that class will help me broaden my range of artistic capabilities. I’ve never been a particularly gifted artist, but I’d like to believe that expanding my skills and knowledge through various art (and media arts) classes will eventually help me find my outlet.

TL;DR, I’m at LCC to get better at art and figure out if want to pursue a career in it.

By: Jake Burton

Hello everyone! My name is Ella Busch and I am a Multimedia Design major. I recently moved to Oregon from Virginia. I grew up in a town called Vienna about ten minutes from D.C. I adopted two cats in July of 2020, their names are Willow and Oliver. I decided to pursue this major because I have a passion for post-production editing. I love manipulating content and working on projects to create something unique and creative. I just think the editing process is fascinating, how you can turn raw footage into something unimaginable. My favorite show right now is Good Girls, I am currently binging it and highly recommend it. If anyone has seen Parks and Rec Donna Meagle is one of the main characters, it’s hilarious. I’m also really loving the Harry Potter movies right now. I have seen some of them but I have never watched them in order. I’m always looking for movie and T.V. show recommendations! One of my all time favorite shows is Normal People. It’s on Hulu and I highly recommend it, but be prepared to shed some tears. When I finish this program I would love to be involved in the production/ editing business in anyway I can, and from that find what I’m good at and hopefully be able to pursue it. I have a special interest in audio production after taking the audio class here at Lane.

Hi! My name is Liah Craven and I’m a Multimedia Design major. I was previously a 2^nd Year Graphic design student, but I decided that I wanted to try something different. Creating digital art, editing videos, and making 2D animations has always been a big hobby of mine. That’s mainly why I felt that this program would be better suited for me. I’m still figuring out exactly what I want to focus on as I continue to take classes. I’m a bit shy, but I’d like to think that I’m easy to get along with. I’m looking forward to learning more about everyone in this class.

I’m actually still fairly new to the Eugene/Springfield area. I moved up to Oregon in 2019 during the fall from San Diego, CA. My parents were planning on relocating up here and gave an invitation to tag along. I was in a slump and decided I wanted some change for my mental health. I’ve improved myself a lot since moving here. The main thing that I’ve really appreciated is seeing the seasons change. Seeing the gorgeous autumn leaves, snowfall, and cherry blossom trees, and wild blackberry bushes has been exciting to see during my time here so far. It’s so much different compared to the places I previously lived in. San Diego is just dry and full of palm trees everywhere. In some pockets of San Diego like Spring Valley, El Cajon, and Ocean Beach, there are wild amazon parrots that will just hang out on the telephone poles. I do sort of miss hearing them scream during the rare rainfalls that happen there. The variety of birds that I see up here make due.

I mostly keep to myself and love to relax in my spare time. I have a pet cockatiel named Tiki that I love dearly. I enjoy cute things, animated films, anime, alternative rock music, rhythm games, and animals. It’s hard for me to narrow down favorites and name specifics; I constantly hyper-fixate on different things all the time.

My name is Arad im 22 and ive been going to LCC for the past couple of years but I haven’t had a specific major to complete, currently, I’m working on getting my multimedia art certificate, but I have taken different classes like javascript, art classes and some 3d sculpting, my main passion is video, and photography, ive been using a cameras and editing softwares since I was in highschool and now I want to turn it into a career, you can see some of my work on Instagram @Bleach__Boy (shameless plug ), a little back story about me, I was born in Iran and moved to Dubai for Highschool and after that moved out here to Eugene around 2017, right after highschool I took a gap yeah and started a clothing company named Bleach__boy and I used to make bleached hoodies and shirts and sell them online and at the Eugene Saturday market for a couple of years, I try to push myself to learn new skills that interest me a lot, from big projects like vinyl wrapping a Whole car and learning to day trade stocks to learning how to solve a rubicks cube and do card magic tricks, currently trying learn more about Photo and Videography to start my media company, some other things that i enjoy are cars and driving ingeneral and i have reasontly been working out and going to the gym and its been helping me a lot mentaly and physically, over all im trying to enjoy the process of things more than the final product.

Hello, I’m Braden Ivey. I am a first-year student at lane studying for a degree in drafting. Throughout high school, I tried several different elective classes, from percussion to culinary arts, to find out what I really wanted to study for in college. It wasn’t until my sophomore year that I ended up trying the drafting course that they had there. After realizing that I enjoyed drafting, I continued taking as many courses as I could for the remainder of my high school career. Now that I am out of high school and in college, I have gotten to take even more drafting courses and further show to myself that it is something that I enjoy doing and would like to study more.

Outside of school stuff, I enjoy video games. For me, video games are a way that I have used to hang out with my siblings and my friends for years. While I still use it in that way today, it has also recently become a source of competition for me. About three years ago, I started doing speedrunning. Speedrunning is basically taking a video game and trying to beat it as fast as possible and then uploading that speedrun to a leaderboard to try to get the fastest time out of everybody on there. Ever since I started, it has been one of my favorite hobbies to this day. Thanks for reading my post!

By: Braden Ivey