Inspire me!

Second year got off to a slow start for most people in the class I think due to a long break in the summer to get out of the swing of things, as well as the fact that pattern cutting was the same old shite as last year, there was 25 in the class instead of the 8 or 9 we normally had to share with (if I was paying for this course I would be pissed) and seeing 60 new piranhas in the fish tank starting in first year waiting in the wings to take what few jobs there are out there.

I was just getting back into it again around Halloween when we were landed with this whopper written project to do in a couple of weeks. It was like 7,000 words, pretty much a thesis, on the fashion industry. I really didn't see the point wasting any time on it so it became a copy and paste thesis completed in 7 hours the weekend before. There was a couple of interesting parts to it though including finding out who exactly Alexander McQueen is (don't tell anyone I said that) and learning a bit about Coco Chanel. I hoped placing some of her inspirational quotes around my room would help kick start my year.

And then there's me