Another Summer, Another Experience

Since I had such a wonderful experience at Parson's precollege program last summer, I decided to try FIT's this summer. FIT is my top choice for college and I wanted to make sure that the school and major I'm looking into are right for me. So I just finished my first "week" (mon-thurs), I'm staying in NYC right now and taking fashion merchandising as well as fashion forecasting classes for three weeks total. The first week was interesting, getting to know my professors, meeting people in my classes and learning about the fashion industry from a new perspective. It was mostly laid back and in both classes we got out of the classroom often and took pictures of street style as well as window displays in order to figure out what trends are happening now. I've never done that before and it was really cool to observe everyone. I think I'm really enjoying the classes, it makes me giddy and anxious at the same time about college, especially since I hope to come study at this school. The one thing that isn't quite ideal about this situation is that it's very hard to make friends because they don't provide housing so some people take one class and then go home, many people don't live too far away, so the only opportunity for social interaction can sometimes be the classroom and you can't start friendships when you're listening to a lesson. But regardless of that I look forward to seeing what the next two weeks have in store.

My fashion merchandising class walking the Highline.