Blog9: My Mentor

Throughout watching the TED Talk "All kinds of minds", One person kept standing out in my mind as a person who has been a great mentor to myself in the past. This person was Mr. Melnick, my graphic design teacher in grades eleven, twelve and thirteen. 

During my grade eleven year at high school, I was beginning to realize that some form of design was what I wanted to get into as a career one day. This was because I thought differently than many of the other students in my classes and always received high marks in art classes. When I began to take graphic design classes in high school with my teacher Mr. Melnick, he was one of the only teachers in my school that I actually enjoyed talking to, because of our interests being similar. Although teaching is just nine-to-five job for many people, you could tell that it was a lot more for Mr. Melnick.

As I continued to go through high school, I always kept in touch with him and regularly stopped by his class to help other students, or just see what type of design work he was up to that day. The influence Mr. Melnick had on my school years was possibly the largest factor in my decision to continue onto college in this line of work. I can only hope that one day I will be able to have the same impact on someone going into the design field as he had with me.