Instructables got me to University - A MASSIVE THANK YOU

1/2 a year ago I diddnt know what I wanted to do in life....
 
Just before Christmas found a wonderful little thing called Industrial Design

Industrial design is said to be for people who like taking things apart, seeing how they work, improving them and redesigning them.

So I applied to study this course at 3 universities (Brunel, Loughborough, Bournemouth)

As with most creative courses you dont get an offer straight away, you go for an interview.
(this is where instructables comes in)
So i was gathering together my school work for a portfolio and it looked pretty normal and average, and i was searching for other stuff to take..... but then I thought "instructables!"

I printed out pictures of my projects and some information on the competitions i have won prizes in.

My first interview was with Bournemouth, i showed him my schoolwork, pretty normal stuff, but his face lit up when i showed him my instructables projects, He wanted to see more so he turned his computer on and i showed him my other projects and the site....     Needless to say he gave me an offer for a place right there and then !

Awesome !

Next up is Brunel... Now brunel is like the ivy leauge of design universities, Its the Oxford/Cambridge for creatives... Its very competitive
This was going to be much harder, whats more the interviews were in groups !
For this interview I printed out even more of my instructables work.

Now the interview, there were four other people in my group, we started by talking about design in general, i was surprised by how little the others knew, but anyway.
Next we showed our portfolios, i let the others go first because i wanted to know what i was up against. They all had the usual school work from the last two years, some better than others.

Then it was my turn, first i did the school work, the interviewer asked some questions bla de bla.
But then I dropped the 5 megaton Instructables bombshell.....
BOOM Projects, Designs, Sustainability, Ergonomics, Competitions, Books, Lifehacker/Gizmodo....

:D Two days later I got an email with the offer I had been waiting for.

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Instructables really hit the nail on the head, and got me into the best possible university.

I just wanted to say thanks again to all the instructables staff and founders for making such an amazing website, it has helped me in so many ways.
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However this is far from over, I still have to work insanely hard to achieve the high grades needed, I have 12 weeks left to go, I have been doing so for a while now and its pretty much killing me, this is why i have been unable to post many topics or instructables, i simply dont have the time.
Although when its all over i will have the longest holiday of my life, over 3 months ! so i will be able to do lots and lots.

Moral of this story ? Don't underestimate your talents and abilities :)

Wish me luck !

_{Hope you could read all that, Its dyslexia.. what can ya do ? lol}