Dear FIT administration, professors, and fellow students,
My name is Joy Brooks, and I am an Advertising and Marketing Communications student here at FIT. A few weeks ago, I asked my school’s HerCampus chapter if I could pen an open letter to the student body. Why?Â
To stop the complaining. I am sick and tired of my peers whining about the scaffolding between the Dubinsky and Business buildings. Enough!
I think we should all be a little more grateful for scaffolding. We don’t often think about the good it does. Are you ever walking outside before your 9:10 lecture and thinking, I wish I were back in bed?
Standing underneath dozens of interconnected pipes provides the exact same feeling as being in your shuttered dorm. Don’t adjust your eyes to the sun, relax underneath 27th St’s temporary night. Arrive at your class well-rested, because you just commuted underneath scaffolding.
The breathtaking view of the Dubinsky breezeway. Ain’t she a beaut!
Have you ever been to Europe?Â
Well, I have, when I studied abroad in (editor’s note: it was at this moment that Joy kissed her fingertips and poorly mimicked an Italian accent) Firenze last semester. Oh, it was bellissima, but do you want to know what I saw?
The Italians had these balconies over all the sidewalks called portici, where if you walked outside during a storm, you wouldn’t feel a drop.
Isn’t scaffolding just like that? Replace the warm aroma of an Italian pizzeria with the vile stench of an NYC sewer, and you’re practically in Italia!
On that note, think of your depressed friends. You have many, many, no doubt… considering you’re attending the #1 fashion school in the world. Walk the halls of Feldman at three in the morning, and you’ll be sure to see at least one A&D student passed out at their sewing machine.
Who among us hasn’t run to the dining hall at 8:59 on a Thursday to grab a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Karmel Sutra, only to slink back up the solitude of their Nagler 5th-floor traditional double, running into the horde of menswear boys chainsmoking outside?
I digress. Your depressed friends greatly benefit from the breezeway scaffolding, because they would sooner sew over their left thumb than enjoy seeing the light of day after an all-nighter.
To quote the famous philosopher Chicken Little: “The sky is falling!”Â
Do not worry, small fowl, because FIT students are safe from supernatural catastrophes: we have scaffolding.
With utmost sincerity,
Joy
P.S. Please use #BlocktheBlock on all social media to tell FIT admin that we want to keep the scaffolding up indefinitely! Special thanks to Sofia Moteleb for coining the hashtag. Stay frosty, FIT!