Expanding Your Horizons Beyond 27th Street

If I could give one piece of advice to any incoming students, it is do not get stuck on 27th street. It is so easy to get in the habit of rolling out of bed ten minutes before your class starts, running across the street and back again when it ends. I can admit to …

Photo Student Reality

So as you all may know, I’m a photography major.  Usually when I tell people this, they tend to have zero clue that there is even a photography major offered at FIT.  Being an art major implies a lot of things.  You are generally creative, inspired, and well…busy.  Being so immensely busy, the following are …

My First Week at FIT

My first week at FIT feels like a million years ago but in fact it has only been two and a half years. Living in the city that never sleeps, where there is always something to do, distorts your sense of time. By now, I have lived so many amazing experiences, that my first week …

Exploring New Spaces

Greetings everyone! Like I said I want to help you all feel more at home both commuter students and on campus students. There are some quick and fun events that happen every week that you may not know about. I know like most of the emails I get from school most just go to spam, …

Notes From the 6 Train: Getting There

As you may have gathered from the name of portion of the blog, I am a commute student. I currently reside in El Barrio (Spanish for neighborhood) in Spanish Harlem, approximately 40 minutes from FIT. In order to get to FIT, I take several trains, the one on which I spend the most is the …