For this project, we had to create a website using everything we learned this summer, Figma, basic HTML and CSS, and finally how to launch a real site with a domain. My classmates and I were brainstorming ideas when my professor told us, “Forget the other ideas, make this about your thoughts on AI.” That’s what pushed me to focus and create this site. I went through several ideas in my head, I had flowers emerging, a tree growing, and that's when I chose the earth but more specifically this image. This image repersents to me not the pretty blue oceans and the green landscapes but the future of our world based on the current climate crisis.
AI is changing everything way faster than I expected. It’s unpredictable, challenging, and transformative. It makes me rethink what’s even possible, but also gives me a little bit of fear. When my professor asked me to sum up how I feel about AI in one word, I said “scared.”
I remember the first time I discovered AI, I was visiting my uncle who is a professor in Australia. He asked me if I had used Chat GPT before, and I said "No, I am afraid to start using it because what if I never go back to the originality of work". Being a junior at NC State majoring in PR at the time I was really amazed that I hadn't used it more. I remember I tried it out and had it made me a recipe. It came up with a full plan of what I needed to buy and how to cook everything. I was amazed. I went back to NC State for my senior year and took a class called AI in PR. This class was so mind opening and made me discover my love for creativity even more, because as much as AI is creative it is not as creative as the human brain.
AI has taken over so much already, and that’s why I decided to build my website around the Earth. I’ve always been someone who cares about what’s going on in the world, and I don’t get how some people just don’t believe the news or don’t care at all. The Earth felt like the perfect symbol. We waited too long to take climate change seriously, and now it feels like we might be doing the same thing with AI. To me, AI is like the next big “climate change.” But if we use it the right way with responsibility and good intentions it can actually be a force for good. Otherwise, it could just repeat the same mistakes we made with climate change. Starting grad school at UNC Chapel Hill in summer 2025, I felt excited but also pretty nervous about what’s ahead. As much as I’ve chased the satisfaction of finishing things on my own, I’m starting to see that the real race isn’t against a deadline, it’s against AI taking over the jobs we once thought were safe... but what is safe anymore?
Everything around me feels like it’s moving faster than I can keep up with. Life is unpredictable, and sometimes overwhelming, but also full of possibility. I’m learning to be okay with the unknown and stay curious even when things feel uncertain.
Starting my Graduate school program in Journalism. It’s exciting but also a little intimidating. I’ve always liked figuring things out, but this new chapter is teaching me that growth doesn’t always come with clear answers.
I used to think I had to do everything on my own to feel proud of it. But I’ve realized asking for help is part of the process too. I think leaning on new tools is ok, as long as we aren't relying on it to much to the point the human brain becomes dead. I truly think nothing can take over the how creative we are as humans.