With the winter season slowly creeping up on campus, students are trading in sunglasses and sandals for cozy scarves and boots. Here’s how students are coping with the inevitable death of summer and fall weather, and the impending doom of the winter season ahead.
Jaclyn Carbone, Retail Management, 2016
Folio: What are you dreading most about the approaching winter season?
Falling in the snow. And all the slippery sidewalks.
Folio: What’s your style mantra?
What would the Olsen twins do?
Bea Jimenez, English, 2015
Folio: What are you dreading most about the approaching winter season?
Snow. Because then I can’t wear my ripped jeans.
Folio: What do you ask yourself every morning before getting dressed?
What feels most like sweatpants? I just want to be comfy.
Mina Kim, Fashion Design, 2017
Folio: What are you most looking forward to this winter season?
Wearing warm clothes. I’m really into oversized wool coats.
Folio: What’s your style mantra?
I don’t have one. I try to keep it simple. Classic. Sometimes black and white.
Gervais Nash, Master of Urban Design, 2016
Folio: What are you most looking forward to this winter season?
Playing hockey!
Folio: What’s your style mantra?
Don’t think about it too much.
Ashley Ng, Creative Industries, 2017
Folio: What are you dreading most about the approaching winter season?
Cold weather. I’m scared of cold weather and muddy shoes.
Folio: What do you ask yourself every morning before getting dressed?
How can I dress as comfortable as possible? I’m actually still wearing my home shorts underneath this dress.
Marqez Ramsay, Child and Youth Care, 2015
Folio: What are you dreading most about the approaching winter season?
Slush because it gets your shoes wet.
Folio: What do you ask yourself every morning before getting dressed?
What’s the weather like?
Breanne Virgil-Lewin, Social Work, 2017
Folio: What are you dreading most about the approaching winter season?
The snow and the commute. Not fun.
Folio: What do you ask yourself every morning before getting dressed?
Is it going to be comfy? Is it going to be cute?