A College Canvas « Peter's experiences as a Mechanical Engineer with an interest in the visual arts.

Hey guys! Welcome to my new blog!

For those of you who don’t know, my name’s Peter, and I’m a sophomore at Johns Hopkins University studying Mechanical Engineering. I’m also trying to get an Arts Certificate, which is like a minor. And that’s how I came up with the title of my blog, A College Canvas. Ironically, I’m really bad at painting, haha. Anyway, let’s move on.

So far, sophomore year has been going well. I ended up dropping one of my courses (Portuguese), but only because I was feeling overwhelmed with 5 classes total (and Portuguese had daily homework) So instead I’m trying something new related to that. Capoeira! I’ll talk about that sometime later, but for now I’d like to keep this brief. Mainly, I learned that I was spreading myself too thin trying to learn a new language when in reality I know I’m really bad at that, haha. However, it was very inspirational and I’m glad that I tried for an entire year. And, it actually helped at home when I was working in a restaurant as I picked up words in Spanish. The two languages are actually very different, but you still pick up a lot of words.