Get Ready For Repitition.

It's hard to believe that I started blogging when I was a freshman in high school. I remember being a freshman and everyone had to make a presentation on the career they wanted. Mine was about a career in fashion. Now, it's hard to believe that I'm going to be a senior when school starts again at the end of August. I don't know how much everyone who reads my blog knows about me, but I'm still planning to pursue a career in fashion.

This year I'm sure you can expect to see lots of posts about college, the future, and all other important topics plaguing the mind of a high school senior. So, I thought I'd kick things off a little early, because college is definitely a topic on my mind.

I decided that it would be a good way to introduce you to where my mind is at when it comes to college if I talked a little about a few of the schools I'm considering. And if you'd like to give me any input, it's always much appreciated.


Fashion Institute of Technology
When I first started considering fashion as a career path I didn't have it narrowed down yet, so when I decided I wanted to study fashion merchandising and become a stylist, it knocked the art schools I had looked at out of the running. However, FIT I offers a variety of fashion related degrees, so it was one that I thought about early on. For a long time I had my mind totally set on going there, but as senior year approached I started to realize that I wanted to keep my options open and make sure I weighed all the different ones out there. FIT provides students with lots of great opportunities, and it's in NYC, which definitely helps to keep it at the top of my list. I read a lot about the school in a book from College Prowler that's part of their Off The Record series. It mostly seemed like a good match for me, but I've also started to consider that it doesn't provide a typical college experience. But then again, I don't know that the typical college experience would suit me! Lots to think about.


LIM College
I'd have to admit that I haven't known about LIM for all that long, and so I won't be surprised if not many of you know of it. I first heard about the school when I started in a fashion program at school. There was one girl who was graduating early and had already weighed all of her options. She mentioned the school, and I checked out their website online. It's a school that is solely focused on the business side of fashion. Not too long after that a representative from LIM came and talked to my class and I began thinking of it more seriously as an option. It's also in New York, and it has an awesome internship program.


Philadelphia University
This is the last school that I'm going to talk about today. I don't want to consider only schools that are exactly the same, so I think PU (bad initials) is pretty different. They do offer a fashion merchandising major, like both the other schools, but there are still plenty of differences. Philadelphia still provides plenty of fashion opportunities, but it's no New York. It would also be more of a 'typical' college experience, which I haven't really decided if I'd like or not!

That's it for my discussion of the future, for now! I'm proud of you if you read through all of this. I do want to specify that I haven't narrowed my choices down to just these three, I'm hoping to keep finding schools that I'm interested in over the next few months, these are just three that I have thought a good deal about!