Hi! It's Sofa and this is a Q & A made just because of...well, you'll see why once you click on the project! :'D I don't know when I will come back to answer questions (if I get any lol), but if you have any questions, drop them down below and I'll answer every time I visit Scratch. For now, here are 2 things I want to share that I learned from the Scratch platform when I look back as a 7+ year old Scratcher: Looking Back as a 7+ year Scratcher 9/14/2025 Well well well, it’s been over 7 years (more like 8 but I'm saying 7 since I'm 7Sofa) since I’ve made this account, and…roughly three years since I’ve moved on from Scratch. I’m still in contact with some Scratchers outside of this platform and it’s amazing how we’re all just…growing up! Now that I’m entering my final year of college, I thought I should talk about a few things I learned from Scratch and a couple things that helped me as I start navigating my adulthood. But first off, if you don’t know me, hi I’m Sofa! I’m a 20 year old studying computer science. I made a lot of my experiences into animations here. And a big part of my teenage years came from Scratch. I even wrote about Scratch in my college applications...lol Let’s keep things short and simple. Here are things I learned from this platform that I want to share with you all, and it may come as obvious to some of you guys, but I still want to share nonetheless. It’s something I wished I told myself earlier as well. Number 1: There are so many things you can try and do in this world! A lot of my friends I made on Scratch are super unique in their own ways - they all have very different hobbies and interests. I was inspired by them and gained new hobbies because of them. Some include singing and rapping, animating, drawing digital art, and music making. And for drawing digital art, I was mainly inspired by the people who drew my OC back in 2020! I still love to draw :D Sometimes we just don’t think about it because we feel comfortable with where we are in life but if you think about it, there are so many new things we can try. That can be anything, like ice skating and sewing. It can be hard at first and even if it’s still hard, it’s still something new and a valuable experience you can gain. For example, I’m gonna take a bowling class this quarter even though I suck at bowling and bowling isn’t even a class I need to take! But I want to try new things and will find this a valuable experience nonetheless. I could even pick up basketball too if I wanted to, and I'm open to trying even though I'm not that tall lol! Number 2: Focus on what you love to do and be confident in yourself! It doesn't matter how many followers we have but whenever we share something to the public, we will always be judged. There are both good and bad, obviously. The good part are people complimenting you and your work, which feels great, especially when we put a lot of effort into our projects. But there will be some occasional negative comments, and that gains a bigger spotlight in our brains because it’s just human nature for us to focus more on the bad things. But I want to remind you guys that negative comments should be ignored - think about it, would those comments help us? No, not at all! We tried our best and they’re just poking fun of it. And it’s not even constructive criticism, which is good since the person is actually trying to help us improve rather than simply hating without reason. So just ignore negative comments, because literally 100% of the time, they are just jealous of what we accomplished! A confident person wouldn’t hate someone unless they are insecure of something. In the end, just focus on what you love to do, because we are all on our own unique paths, and no one should disrupt our paths with that. So those are the two main things I wanted to share that I gained from my Scratch experience. I hope you find them as meaningful as I do! Bye for now!
