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HECTIC. Fashion shows are a pain in the ass. Shit isn't even fun anymore.
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I used to have at least one all-nighter per week. Not out of necessity, I just liked being up and sleeping felt like a waste of time. Then there was that phase where I was nocturnal, slept from about 7am until 4pm every day. Up all night, every night. Saw some amazing sunrises back then. Kinda miss is.
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MALDIVES. I'm dying to go, it's my ultimate life goal.
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The OCEAN, all day.
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What kind of a question is this? Either you like bacon or you're wrong.
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Immortals. IT WAS SO AMAZING.
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I'd have to be an idiot to trust the media. Everyone has an angle, and every news outlet has someone pulling its strings. It's all meant to be taken with a grain of salt, never at face value.
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I think I graduated with a 4.3 or something, only because I got a C+ in US history. I'm just working right now, but I really want to go back to Parsons. Whether it's Parsons or somewhere else though, I'm going to finish my degree in the near future.
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It's just a matter of finding the right balance of perfectionism and time management, and it's going to take a couple/few weeks to get used to it. I'm a total perfectionist too, but I had to take it down a couple notches just in order to get all of the work done that they give at Parsons, because (especially for the fashion design major) it's a LOT of work. You just have to find a way to.. not cut corners, per se, but to streamline your productivity so that you're able to multitask and make it as perfect as you want it to be, but without sacrificing time redoing things that aren't going to get reasonably better the next time you do them.
As far as competition, I mean.. I didn't get the last half of your question haha but competition is great, especially if you use it as an opportunity to push yourself and observe ideas from industry peers. Because yeah, you're all technically competing for the best designs and best production, but at the end of the day you're all sharing this passion and working to find careers benefiting the same industry. -
No, that falls into the category of "stupid abstracts that people tell themselves exist to make them feel better about the fact that they don't want to take control of their own lives because it's easier to attribute things to forces beyond their control", the same category into which fate and luck fall. I may believe in it when people I have known who deserve to suffer have, in fact, suffered. I've seen some of them hurt, but it's never proportionate to their level of shittiness. When I DO see a pattern of shitty people getting exactly what they deserve, and by that I mean their entire lives put through the proverbial wood chipper, THEN maybe I'll put some stock in karma. Until then, it's not karma. It's coincidence. Their relatively small misfortunes are just the consequences of them being assholes. If that's their cosmic punishment, then the cosmos is doing a pathetic fucking job.
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I would absolutely recommend it. It's not only the best name to have on your resume if you want to something fashion (or any kind of design, really) related, but it's seriously a great school. There's minimal memorization and recitation, useless bullshit like that. You really have to learn how to think in business, design and sustainability mindsets simultaneously. It's a smart curriculum and it pushes your mind in all sorts of directions. It's a LOT of work, but I wouldn't have rather gone anywhere else.
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Sea urchin. The restaurant owner came out to watch me eat it, then congratulated me when I got it down without throwing up. Go me.
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Getting over shyness is easier than self-esteem; I have yet to discover the secret to good self-esteem (other than not-giving-a-fuck, which I don't think is really best way to go about it). But confidence is something you just have to fake until it becomes natural. Something I do to keep it up is start conversations with strangers.. small talk is one of the hardest things for me to do (mostly because I usually just DON'T CARE about what they're saying), but strangers make good practice because.. if it turns out awkward, no consequences. It makes it easier to learn the way conversations flow.
Another thing.. silence is underrated. I feel like social anxiety often comes from feeling this need to ALWAYS be saying something, when in reality.. silence is only as awkward as you make it, and there's not really any need to say anything if you have nothing to say. If you're actively engaged in the conversation, paying attention to what the other person is saying and relating it yourself, it's going to be a lot easier to open your mouth and respond.
And if all else fails.. people LOVE talking about themselves. So if you want to keep the conversation going and are at a loss as to what to say, just.. ask them something about themselves. Something random, or something about what they're wearing, or have they ever been to ____, or did they see this movie, or hear this song, or I don't know.. what they think about
And most of all.. don't worry about it. That's asking a lot, but if someone is talking about something to which you truly can't relate, then.. what are you supposed to do?
But like I said.. the best thing to do is just fake it. Pretend you're comfortable and eventually you actually will be. Confidence is a learned skill, just like anything else, and it takes time. -
Charles Manson. We'd go to In-n-Out.
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Near where I am right now? There is no good pizza. New York pizza or no pizza, the end.
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I haven't in a while, but hypothetically I could still make them.
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