Being creative is relaxing. Allowing your artistic juices to flow and contemplating symmetry, colors, and aesthetic beauty is an activity that I, and I think many of my peers, don’t do often enough. As an engineering major, much of my academic time is spent with numbers, facts, and scientific reasoning. However, creativity is key to so many careers, and engineering is definitely one of them. Designing products, circuits, programs, and networks requires ingenuity, thinking outside the box, and allowing our artistic intuition to take over sometimes. Engineering, after all, combines math and science with design.

Making cards was the perfect creative outlet to allow my thinking to run free and exercise the artistic side of my brain. In addition, I really loved that we made cards, specifically. Writing cards for friends and family on their birthday to show them how amazing they are is a passion of mine, and I was so excited to add more artistic flair to this activity.