Word: minding
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...author) the designer quickly comes up with a vision for her creation. With a photography project to complete, Baird knows she won’t have much time, so she keeps the concepts simple. With an idea for her “space-age cocktail dress” in mind, she heads out with fellow competitor, Vicky D. Sung ’10, to a fabric store in Boston. Winmil Fabrics is a dingy, unassuming store overflowing with fabrics in every color and texture: from stretch cotton to light chiffon, patterned fleeces to psychedelic prints, faux fur to feather boas...
...wondering if my second trip to Princeton would be much like the first.Two years ago I began my career as a Crimson columnist, writing my very first column about a miss-call that cost Harvard the game. Those memories I had pushed so far into the back of my mind slowly began to creep forward. Let me set the scene. The 2006 edition of the Harvard-Princeton matchup had been highly anticipated, as both teams entered at an undefeated 5-0 mark. The Crimson found itself down 24-14 at the half, but after a few ballsy calls by head...
...work the sewing machine,” she says. Burruss is modest about her own status as a designer, saying that she designs and constructs clothes simply out of a love for constructing. She does make occasional sketches, but most of her ideas are stored right in her own mind. “I’m not too good at the two-dimensional stuff. I’m good at the sewing.” Burruss’s sewing skills seem to be paying off in more ways than one. As we are sitting in a garden chatting...
...minimum wage was $5.15, and the wage I had been promised was a full $6.00. $4.25 was neither of these. But alas! The worst part of this predicament was that I was stuck, unless I was willing to fritter away the rest of my summer bored out of my mind and unemployed.As an underaged high school student in a college town, I had already experienced that summer as a season of humbling mass rejection. This was the first year I could officially work, and at the outset the prospect of earning my own pocket money had been fresh and exciting...
...Wherever I’m at, the surroundings affect my state of mind,” Batt says. “I choose to make sure my room looks nice. I can’t help it—otherwise, I just can’t get stuff done...