What the best describe yourself? 

 “Friendly / Social / Extrovert” I think the exposure to new places and new people can be really reviving personally and also eye opening to see how other people live.  I love to travel because not only is it the ultimate adventure but it also exposes you to new types of people, different ways of living, and opens up your mind. 

My name is Suthasini Chaiwohan but you can call by Bassi.  I’m from Maha sarakham, Thailand. I graduated from Mahasarakham University Demonstration School (secondary). I have dark brown hair and dark brown eyes color.  I’m a person who is positive about every aspect of life. There are many things I like to do, to see, and to experience. My personality is I’m really easy going person and love to make new friends. Sometimes I have to tell myself “ BE QUIET ” because I talk too much but it’s okay I can be quite for five seconds.

For now I am the first year student at Lane Community College (LCC) in Eugene Oregon as  an international student. Also I’m in a graphic design major because I personally love drawing and creates new stuffs. So the graphic design program is what I’m interested in and I want to be a graphic designer for my future career. The reason I come to the US is because America have more modern technology and I can be close to all my old friends from the high school. 

Starting this new chapter to my life after falling off a roof last summer and breaking my heel. Before the injury I spent a majority of my free time involved in athletics of some sort, I played college basketball about 10 years ago, I’ve spent the last 10 coaching at Thurston High School, I got into distance running and bouldering as well. My life pretty much revolved around these activities. While in the process of recovering from my injury I decided to take up photography as a hobby, I realized that it gave me a creative expression and an opportunity to capture all of my future adventures with friends. After taking a digital photography class in the Winter I decided to make a career change and pursue multi-media. 

I’ve started two businesses in the last 7 years and have always had to high someone to do the graphic design work, product shoots, and video work. I hope through this program that I can develop those skills to help my current business as well as future ones. I feel like we are moving towards a gig economy and I’m looking to add to my skill set.

You all can call me Mel!  Firstly, I’d like to give you a little background. I’m 30 years old and was born and raised here in Oregon. I went to Lowell Highschool and graduated in 2009. In Highschool, I participated in a lot of sports. I wrestled and ran track. While I wasn’t in sports, I was really involved with the coir and music the program. I sang tenor, played a variety of instruments, primarily guitar and bass. After I graduated, I went on to get a normal job at Carl’s Jr and wanted to go to LCC. A few months later, I put my application in to LCC and got accepted. I jumped around college a lot struggling to get my AAOT in music for a year and a half. After finishing math, writing, and some elective courses I decided to take a break and go back into the work-force. After considering I had a kid on the way, I wanted to just focus on him and a full-time job at-the-time. I started off working Temp jobs that weren’t very consistent. Eventually, Value Village hired me on full-time for 3 year until they shut-down, and I had to go work for Walmart right afterwards. After working for Walmart for quite some time I decided I’d go back to school and try out Automotive, but that didn’t work out too much for me. So, I decided to take yet another break from school to try and figure out what I wanted to do. So, last spring I began painting and flagging throughout the year. This brought me here to LCC yet again, so here I am hoping to get my degree in multi-media arts. 

By: Shaymus Marshall

Hi. My name is Shaymus and I am a 17 year old college student studying to be a vfx artist/editor. I am from a small town in Pennsylvania but I moved to Oregon in the 7th grade because of my mom’s work. In highschool I swam and played water polo for South Eugene High, but due to Covid I ended up graduating early from high school so I will not be able to do my senior year of sports. Despite not being able to do my senior year of sports it is a good thing that I can start college early. During my time in high school to now I have been learning how to use the 3d program Blender which has been very fun and a great look into what I could possibly be doing in the future and with Blender being free anyone can get their start in VFX. In my free time I like to play all types of video games although if I were to pick my favorite genres they would be fighting games, jrpgs, roguelikes, and metroidvanias. I am very excited to be in the Multimedia program and I am looking forward to see where this journey goes.

My name is Chayton Storm. I am a 19-year-old college student born and raised in Grants Pass Oregon. I moved up to Springfield Oregon in August of last year and have been living with my significant other and best friend. 

We are almost a year down the road and have done well up here since the move. I believe I was more prepared than several people my age and this is thanks to my outstanding parents who taught me to respect myself and those deserving, openness, honesty, and most certainly responsibility. It has been a blessing now that I am on my own and can take care of the people I love the same way I was taken care of.

I work in a Deli as of today, and have met some amazing people. I was worried about not having connections up here and being stranded when in need, but I have learned to open myself up to people willing to help. I do enjoy what I do, but will be leaving the food service game as soon as possible to jump into the world of media and design.

As far as hobbies go, I do a lot of bike riding. I love to explore the streets of Eugene but I frequently visit Eugene’s skatepark with my roommate. We like to go at 2 or 3 am to make sure we can freely enjoy the park to ourselves while working extremely hard to improve our riding skills. 

I also have been gradually building experience and skill with my camera. After leaving Grants Pass, I don’t explore as much, so I have less opportunities to capture new places and moments in life, so I am focusing on portrait photography. I would like to be much further than I am now, but between work, taking care of my living space, and other hobbies, I don’t get around to it as much as I’d like.

I am an avid gamer as well and am currently working on getting new equipment to fit my tastes and needs. I enjoy fps games, but you can’t go wrong with some action or adventure RPG and even some Survival.

Design and creating have been a passion of mine since I could remember. I was very fond of art and drawing at a young age, but haven’t built on those skills as much as I’d like. Currently I have outlined and designed a small personal clothing brand just out of interest in fashion and creating. I am having a few pieces produced just so I can share them with people in my personal life and community.

That is a quick look into the life of Chayton Storm. I have so much more to accomplish and learn, and I am always taking steps towards that goal.

By: Chayton Storm