Stop, move, work, pause, what was I doing? forget it, fix it, what happened? that’s pretty much how my everyday. As someone with ADHD, ADD, ODD, and autism, I’m present in the room, and yet I’m either in a whole other world, or lost within my clouded thoughts. Immediately labeled a wild child the moment at birth. What did I gain through all this? I got to know how the world toyed with me. Way back when everything was vivid, when It was to early to understand, I still remembered how others saw me. An outlier that needed fixing, a renegade runner, the one that didn’t fall in the norm. They yelled, disapproved, and judged me not as a person, but as a nuisance they had to bear to see. This kept happening till my mom pulled me aside to her desk at home, giving one of her many scoldings. It was hard to hear, hard to stand, hard to listen, till I made out one thing she said, “please just be still, be perfect, be silent, for my sake, for everyone sake.” After hearing those words pierce my ears, I grew silent, I held my breath, I followed the rules, I did what I was told, no matter how much it killed me inside. Life is a cruel joke told to all, and we just have to laugh along to live. Playing along with orders, with commands, with expectations given to look down on people like me, so I had to prove them wrong, no matter my mental state. Acting the norm may seem like a joke to you, but for me, I lose my mind. All the sporadic energy I’m used to spending physically, now goes boggle my head till it feels like it’s about to explode. But after all is said and done, all the harassment and judgment from school, friends, and family, I still fight to improve. I want to prove everyone wrong about me. I’m not a quitter, I will get the job done, I will make it in life, so I can show the world that despite my condition I’m not weak. The future I see would have a massive health institution built for those with ADHD, ODD, autism (like me), to have a place where you're understood and taken care of. I plan to join an accredited college of architecture and graduate with flying colors. Once I make enough money, a dream I have is to help those who never got treatment. But to get the money I need a job, and to get the job I need a degree, and to get a degree I need to go to college. I can’t pay for college alone, so I will need a scholarship like this to help make my dream a reality. I, Jason Nguyen, implore you, “I Can and I Will” Scholarship, to help my endeavors in helping those like me succeed. I have already put in so much effort by joining NHS, obtained Architecture and Design 1 and 2 Merit awards for 2023-2024 and 2024-2025, became Revit certified, and am planning to join an architectural internship, but that alone won’t be enough. Now, it’s up to you to give me a chance to help those who would never get the help they need.

Money, what a funny thing it is: money shelters us, money feeds us, money is a need, so if you don’t have it, you die. When my mom came from Vietnam to America alone, she practically had nothing to her name. She was stranded in a world with only the bit of money she had left, my sister, and me. She didn’t know the local language, she didn’t have any other family or friends there to support her, and she didn’t even know where to start. Despite these challenges, she survived this endeavour. Now I realize she had given me a chance at a future, and I won’t waste it. This revelation came to me recently, when I was old enough to get things done on my own. I went out to pay for my own ADHD medicine this time around, and saw the price tag of a few hundred dollars. At first, I didn’t think much of it, until I remembered she had been paying for them every single month. I never understood the struggles we went through at all until that day. It finally clicked in my head: why we never went on field trips, why we ate the same food every day, and why she always came home late and why we couldn’t afford the life we wanted. She had left her home, to bring me and my sister here in America in hopes of living a better life for ourselves. But I can’t settle for just helping myself, I plan to go further. The future I see would have a massive institution built for immigrants, like me, to have a place to go. I plan to join an accredited college of architecture and grauduate with flying colors. Once I make enough money, a dream I have is to help newcomers settle in America and single parents in need till they find their footing. But to get the money I need a job, and to get the job I need a degree, and to get a degree I need to go to college. I can’t pay for college alone, so I will need a scholarship like this to help make my dream a reality. I, Jason Nguyen, implore you, Sola Family Scholarship, to help my eneavors in helping those like my mom, lost, poor, and struggling. I have already put in so much effort by joining NHS, obtained Architecture and Design 1 and 2 Merit awards for 2023-2024 and 2024-2025, became revit certified, and am planning to join an architectural internship, but that alone won’t be enough. Now, it’s up to you to give me a chance to help those like my mom and many others through supporting my pursuit in a college architecture education.

When I first thought to make me a mad genius would take an commonly used phrase "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream," and thought of how I could have twisted and mash up the phrase with other similar words. Ice cream sounds like eye scream, so played along that terminology by combining ideas from the painting called "The Scream" with a common phrase. I just needed to figure a way to make my work "Eye Scream" really specialized unlike anty other. I started brainstorming the layout of an ice cream cone with an eyeball replaceing the ice cream. Then I relized the eye could have come from a person. So I started sketching a person with an eye missing, but wasn't enough. I wanted this to be as weird, unnatural, and unsettling as possible similar to the "The Scream" painting. I thought other parts could be on the ice cream like his lips, teeth, an skin. Drawing a person without lips and without teeth was the first challenge as I couldn't really find any references of people without teeth or missing lips (that sounds dumb, but I digress). I first sketched the mouth with lips and teeth, and imagined what a person missing those components would look like. To emphasize this unusally weird feeling I colored the sagging, peeled skin pink, shaded it purple and brown to give it an unnatural sickly look to it. I also gave the teeth and lips to the cone along with the eye. Whats left is a head with peeling skin, missing eye, a single rotten yellow tooth, and ripped off lips as it screams. The cone has an eye ball, lips attatched with veins, and the rest of the teeth. The background I chose was a melted Ice cream look to it with a triadic colors.

Career planning is a strategy that helps me visualize the actions I need to take to achieve my career goals. First of all, the most important thing is that I need to understand myself. And I have 4 steps to career planning. Number 1 Self-assessment: Identify my skills and interests for the future. Number 2 Explore career ideas: Research what fits in with abilities and desires. Number 3 Set achievable goals: Plan out what I will do to to achieve this goal. Number 4 Make decisions: Pull through with my intentions till I’ve accomplished my goals in life. I have special talents in some areas. I learn very quickly, have a rich imagination, good memory and have talents in the fields of music, mathematics, physics, chemistry and painting. I have the ability to concentrate highly on what I like, I like to immerse myself in my own world and focus on what interests me. I remember images, number sequences and am especially sensitive to colors, sounds, images, numbers and the order of things. And I have a passion for art such as painting and music, love listening to melody, love drawing and can sit for hours focusing on what I am doing… I am currently a senior at Kingwood Park High School, I have been studying architecture for four years and I really love it. I have experienced architecture through lessons, projects and workshops… this is a subject full of joy, I have the opportunity and freedom to apply my creativity and uniqueness in my imagination to create new designs. With love for design, you experience design work with all your heart and mind, with the desire to contribute to building and improving the human living environment. Architects are the ones who breathe life into living spaces, helping each building not only have shape but also have soul. Therefore, I belong to the group of people who love creativity, love beauty, have logical thinking and like to express themselves through each design line - architects are the world just for me! Thanks to the school I am attending for giving me the opportunity to take an architecture class, thanks to Ms. Taylor, the teacher in the field of architecture who shared her knowledge, experience, inspiration and direction with me. And it is my personal experiences, interests and passion for architecture that are the important factors that motivated my decision that I will study architecture.

One of Taylor's most moving performances was during her 2022 tour, when she produced the "All Too Well (10-minute version)." The performance is considered one of the most resonating for fans as it truly exemplifies Taylor's raw emotion, storytelling ability, and vulnerability. This one song is a very detailed recounting of an extremely painful breakup, full of vivid imagery and bitter honesty. The feelings that Taylor pours into her live performance make you feel as if you are standing beside her, living through those memories and feelings. In the extended version, added verses not present in the original cut enable her to bare even more of her inner feelings, deepening the impact of the performance and its sense of intimacy. It speaks to her growth as an artist and person. It takes courage to be vulnerable and honest, and that is inspiring to many fans. It reminds us that even someone as huge as Taylor has dealt with heartbreak and struggles, and opening up about those feelings can be healing and an avenue for connection. Taylor Swift's live performance of "All Too Well (10-Minute Version)" is one of those magical moments because it showcases her deepest heartfelt emotions, her gift for storytelling, and her ability to touch the minds and souls of every listener. A stirring reminder of the healing power of music and truly embracing vulnerability.