It is folly, perhaps, to attempt to categorize or encapsulate the creative force that is Kaloyan Kolev.<\/p>\n
Kolev, a graduating senior at Pauli Murray majoring in computer science, is a coder, a composer, a graphic designer, an essayist, and a video editor. He is an afficionado of forgotten disco songs, synthesizers, plunderphonics, Internet culture, and the Eurasian golden oriole. Above all, he is a proud Bulgarian.<\/p>\n
I like to use technology to make things, to make art, that makes people think, Kolev said.<\/p>\n
Although hed never set foot in the United States before coming to Yale for his first semester in August 2019, some online research gave him a sense that Yale was a place where he could follow each of his intellectual passions equally. And that proved to be the case, he said.<\/p>\n
Kolev is co-president of the undergraduate design studio Design at Yale. He works on strategy and content design at Mental Canvas, a drawing software platform founded by Yale computer science professor Julie Dorsey. He is a team leader at the Student Technology Collaborative, leading a subgroup (called STC Studios) that creates visual identities for Yale clubs, academic departments, and startups.<\/p>\n
I found academic freedom here, Kolev said. My friends and I started Design at Yale during my first year. Our idea was to do fun design interventions around campus, and I think weve had some real impact. That has been a very meaningful experience for me.<\/p>\n
Another experience that meant a great deal to me was a computer science course I took, called Creative Embedded Systems. Every week, you made a machine out of components you were given. I feel like now I can make anything, he said.<\/p>\n
This summer, Kolev will return to Sofia, Bulgaria, to see his family, write songs for a pop singer he knows, and compose music for a play. He also has an art exhibition going up. Then hell return to the U.S. to take a fulltime job at Mental Canvas, which is based in New York.<\/p>\n
I tell first-year students, theres a way to do Yale where you can still get eight hours of sleep every night, take classes you enjoy, and make it a blissful four years of your life thats centered around intellectual curiosity, making things for the sake of making them, and getting to know yourself, he said.<\/p>\n
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