Madeline

My name is Madeline, and I’m nineteen years old. I was born and raised in Chicago, and in the nineteen years that I’ve spent here it’s taken me all the way up to the past two years to really figure out who I am. In a lot of ways, I think I’m still trying to figure it out. To start, I’ve always been the kid who struggles with rules, paying attention, doing what your suppose to be doing. In high school, I spent most of my time sleeping through classes, or not going to them in the first place. My life took a different direction though, senior year, because that was when I was given an ultimatum to choose whether I wanted to stay in school for the rest of the year without ditching a single class, to play completely by the rules - or I could drop out. I chose to stay, and that was the year I proved to myself that I could achieve, and to let go of my self doubts. After I graduated, I took the year off and thought about what I really wanted, so I ended up here. My greatest passions are art, drawing and illustration. I love anything that has to do with self expression, even though I tend to express myself in not the most positive ways. Im a big fan of graph and street art, and even though I play guitar really poorly, music is a great passion too. I feel like I could go on and on about all the stuff that makes me who I am but theres ten minutes of class left and I have to find a picture, so this is as good as it gets for now.