Why did you choose to study fashion? What do you hope to learn by taking a fashion class?

First Post!!! Whoooo!
This blog was started as an assignment in my SVCTE fashion class. I'm not complaining. I've always wanted to start a blog, just lacked the intrinsic motivation to do it. Now that I'm literally forced to run a blog for a grade, I've got no excuse. Now, let's get started.

I chose to give up my off period and add three extra hours of school to my already busy schedule because I wanted to explore the fashion industry and see if design is something I might be good at. I never thought of myself as "fashionable", but people say I've got style and I wanted to put that to the test. Living in the Silicon Valley, I knew I would be judged for pursuing something artistic, so that also influenced my decision to take fashion design in high school, instead of paying thousands of dollars to take it in college. I want to explore the side of me that makes me unique.

By taking this class, I hope to learn everything I can about the fashion industry. Did you know it's apparently the forth largest industry in the world? I definitely didn't. So far, this is my plan for the class:

1. See if fashion design is truly something I enjoy, besides just being a form of expression. I want to know if I truly have a passion or not. 
2. Now, am I actually good at it? If not, is it something that I would be willing to put in enough time and energy to improve on? Do I have something unique that the industry is hungry for? Is there anything new I can bring to the table?
3. My next mental step is to learn if the fashion industry is an industry I would actually want to be in. Can I picture myself working in whatever environment it would be like? (I have no clue what it'd would be like so I can't even give an example.) What are the different jobs/room for entrepreneurship that match my skill set and my thirst for superiority? 
4. If I'm like "Hecky heck yes I am ready to take this world by storm!", then I can use this class to build connections, or at least learn how to get started. If I finish the year and realize isn't for me, then that's good too! I'll be glad to know now without having invested much time and money into a career I would ultimately become unhappy with. Or, even worse, I end up living the rest of my life not knowing what could've been. I hate the smell of missed opportunity. 

So yeah, get ready for a wild ride because the blog of an actual 17 year old female grandpa on the internet has just begun.