Brigitta Vande Lune

Major: Fashion Design and Merchandising
Company/Organization: The Slow Era
Company/Organization website: TheSlowEra.com
Destination: Ames, Iowa
Timeframe: Fall 2025
Advisor/Coordinator Email: sbennett@iastate.edu

Responsibilities

My responsibilities during my internship includes; creating a safe atmosphere in the store, keeping it organized, pricing, cleaning curated items, and helping come up with advertising for the store.

Accomplishments

I have yet to have a great accomplishment. I hope to learn how to log all of the inventory and sales. That will be my biggest accomplishment.

Learning experience

The greatest lesson I have learned so far from my experience is that you cannot make every vendor happy and it isn't your responsibility to cater to the vendors every need but cater to the needs of the store.

What advice would you give?

Advice I have for future students is work on time management. This major is very time consuming and full of heavy workload courses. Take your time, put in the work, but don't stress over making everything look absolutely perfect. You are learning as well as growing into who you are and what you enjoy making.

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