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, the magic they have hidden within themselves. Those kinds of designs stick with me and stand out. Within these stories there is always the one the outcast, the quiet kid, the underestimated, but when it comes down to it, the one people don’t expect to have the potential to change the world. I like to believe we all have that ability if we just put the right foot forward. Some artist influences are Yoshitaka Amano and Tetsuya Nomura. They both designed some of the Final Fantasy games and the

important factors helped me choose that PLU was the place for me. First, I wanted a culture change and to far be away from home. Growing up in rural Montana where everybody knows everybody and they all happen to be your fifth cousin, I wanted to get away from the small town life and experience an urban area in a controlled environment. The PLU “bubble” was exactly what I was looking for. Secondly, I was looking to play soccer for a university in the Northwest Conference and I knew that the program was

limitless opportunities to study abroad – all of those factors added to the university’s appeal for me. My PLU experience: When I first started out at PLU I was overconfident and unabashedly idealistic. When asked on that first day what I hoped to get out of the IHON program, I responded, “I hope to emerge at the end of all this a full-fledged Renaissance man, ready to kill poverty and change the world for the better.” Granted, I may have been trying to be a bit funny, but part of me honestly believed