Ariana Thompson is a first-year student enrolled in the IDEA Bachelors of Design and Visual Communication at Capilano University. They attended and graduated from Correlieu Secondary School in Quesnel, British Columbia in 2018. At the age of 21, they are a first-generation Canadian who is very passionate about art. Capilano is not Ariana’s first experience in university. They previously studied Geography at the University of Northern British Columbia, aiming to graduate with a Bachelor in the Arts. After discovering their drive for art, they left the program to pursue design in hopes to graduate with the credentials to have a career driven by illustration.

As an art student, English has never been my strong suit, throughout high school, it was my most challenging course. University as well has been a struggle, processing the readings and writing essays is no new of a struggle. Although, the team I had around me greatly helped my experience in English 100. There are so many resources in Capilano University to guide someone who may struggle with this. One piece of this class that I thoroughly enjoyed was the weekly class response. The weekly class responses helped to warm me up whenever I needed to write, whether it was for a blog post for another class or for an English essay, I found this useful and very interactive.

Writing and language is a force that has been known for a long time, looking into “From the Persistence of Word” by Gleick we break down the quote, “writing was a new method of civil direction.” Writing is a being that is essential to a designer, its written form does not change but the verbal form does. As design majors, this quote indicates the beginning of the civil direction, the direction which later branches out into languages, books, typefaces, and writing. This proposes that writing has led humanity to the point it is today.