Oh my goodness. It was a daily battle. I'd get to the design lab, sit in front of the computer and dread opening Adobe Illustrator. I really, really struggled with the program. I don't even want to tell you how many hours I spent wrestling with the pen tool. After one partcualy agrigous day in class, I approached one of my favorite professors and told him point blank: "I fudging hate Illustrator." The dude laughed at me, and retorted, "You're going to be singing a different song really soon." And I hate to say it, but he was right. Something happened one day, and it just clicked. I made the pen tool my bish. And I made all of these pretty cool illustrations in Illustrator too. If only my professor could see me now!