I thought it would be inter­est­ing to do a ret­ro­spec­tive of the last Leap Day. Although I don’t have the most accu­rate records of what I did on that day, I do have sketch­books to put me in the gen­eral direc­tions. So this post will have heavy design content.

Four years ago I was liv­ing in Idaho, going to BYU-​​Idaho. It would have been halfway through the semes­ter. I was tak­ing Identity Design, Photography, C.S. Lewis, Doctrine and Covenants and prepar­ing to leave on a trip to New York with the Graphic Design depart­ment. Looking back, it was a time of change; seri­ous change.

After that semes­ter, I with­drew from BYU-​​Idaho and moved to Salt Lake. I started work­ing nights at Albertson’s, secured an intern­ship at Skogen Group, and worked part time at EXPRESS. (It seems that my life was as busy then as it is now.)

Four years later, I’m in a sim­i­lar sit­u­a­tion of change. I’m prepar­ing to fin­ish my last semes­ter at BYU, an occa­sion I have to admit I’m very excited about. The semes­ter is half over. I have an exhi­bi­tion next week, with my BFA exhi­bi­tion com­ing up at the end of April.

Now the inter­est­ing thing will be to see if in the next four years I’m wrap­ping up my mas­ters degree pro­gram. Who knows?