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  Dear Future Self,               By the time that you are reading this letter you will have finished college, hopefully have graduated from the University of Tampa. Was it as all you had hoped it to be? Did you stick with your visual arts degree and marketing minor or change it for the third time to something else? I am writing this letter to show you how far you have come in the last 20 years. All the worrying that you do has not gotten you anywhere and I hope that you have finally learned to not worry so much. It is not worth all the stress that it has caused you. Things will always work out in the end, and I hope you have finally learned that. It is okay to worry/be concerned sometimes but it is not needed to be worrying all the time. The biggest problem you had especially as a teenager was caring what everyone thought of you, and it truly got the best of you. A lot of people care what people think of them, but I hope at this point you have learned to just not care anymore and just

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vHKwYhkE7U This video focused on three main tools: pen tool, pathfinder, and typography. The pen tool at first seemed easy to use but looked like it was something that would be harder to master. It can be used for almost anything and you can always go back and change what you were working on. Pathfinder is used to combine any two shapes, once combined you can change the color and size as the shapes are bonded. Typography was also discussed; it is a very useful tool in Illustrator. It is easy to add text, resize, and change color and font. You can also change the entire look of the text to whatever you want it to be.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXIZWii_Ps4&list=TLPQMjEwMjIwMjIh65hw8WVAFA&index=2   This video focused on the pen tool, pathfinder, shape builder, color panel tool and the clipping mask. The creator of this video, Alice Thorpe, says the pen tool is seems confusing at first and not fluid at first. But once you master the pen tool