about

	name: arina
	age: 25
	pronouns: they/she/it
	birthday: january 6th
	likes/hobbies: cats, drawing, coffee, tea, web development, urban exploration, horror, tarot, greek mythology, snakes, anime, video games, self inserts/shipping, goth subculture
	fav media: undertale/deltarune, persona 3, elden ring, bloodborne, catherine, pizza tower, inscryption, yume nikki, perfect blue, serial experiments lain, sayonara zetsubou-sensei, masa works design

    my first experience with web development was when i was around 8 year olds. i was super into those little sites with iframe layouts that had pixel dolls and glitter graphics. i spent a lot of my time on a forum dedicated to this community called kawaiiville (there was also pixelbee and teahouse mb. if you were apart of any of these communities hit me up lol) and so i began my attempts at graphic design and web development. i'd use paint shop pro and animation shop for graphics and the built-in code editor on freewebs. needless to say my graphics and web design were atrocious compared to most, but impressive for an 8 year old. sometimes i'd try making other sites (such as a site dedicated to sailor moon and another to ghost pictures) and experiment with other platforms (rip piczo). i stopped for awhile, my interests just shifting to other things. in my senior year of high school, i took a web design class and it reminded me how much fun i had making little sites when i was younger.

    for my first 2 years in college i just went to a local community college to save money. i thought i wanted to major in computer science but i really struggled with any math after trigonometry (and this program required you to take up to calculus 2). i really had my doubts i could succeed in this field, and it didn't help that i had a professor that actively seemed to put down compsci students in her intro to programming course. at the orientation for the university i transferred to, they had tables that advertised different majors and the one for "web application development" immediately caught my eye. i looked at what classes were required and they told me about the major, and i changed it right then and there. i don't regret it one bit and have been working as a frontend developer for a little over a year now (though my college degree focused more on backend development, it's tough getting your first job out of college so i took it lol). it's such a relief having a job you enjoy after working retail for 4 years throughout college.