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Kent State University Internship Assignment

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This past summer, I had the opportunity to study at Kent State University’s NYC Studio and intern at Fabric to Finish, Inc., a product-development consulting firm in the Garment Center. I valued my time there, but would not call my internship a success. I was inexperienced and undereducated and it showed in nearly everything I did. In fact, I knew nothing about the product development process and made countless mistakes. I understand that making mistakes while interning is apart of the learning process and is more or less normal, but being normal is not acceptable for me. While I was embarrassed of my lack knowledge, I still loved going to my internship everyday, being able to help create a product from start to finish – figuring out what fabric …show more content…

At the BF+DA, I will learn to enhance their design mentors’ experience through sampling and production under the supervision of their production coordinator. I believe it is important to supplement this experience with education, so I also decided to apply for the Fashion Business Management program, at the Fashion Institute of Technology with hopes of changing my program to Production Management in the fall. Applying to this program may seem excessive considering I recently graduated from Kent State with a Bachelor of Science in Fashion Merchandising and an internship at the BF+DA, but I have always gone the extra mile in the interest of bettering …show more content…

After working in the field for a number of years and gaining the practical experience I need, I will more than likely return to school and peruse a graduate degree in either Business Administration or Global Fashion Management (depending on what direction my career goes in), and achieve my ultimate goal of being the vice president of product development at a prominent fashion house. My success is contingent on continuing my education at FIT and I cannot wait to start my career in product

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