Closet Confection: Alma Mater

When: Saturday, January 14th, 2011

Where: Brunch @ Community Food & Juice + Hangin’ around my old college campus

What: Jacket (Miss Sixty via Burlington Coat Factory), sweater (J. Crew), skirt (Banana Republic), belt (H&M), tights (Wolford), boots (Givenchy via eBay), hat (H&M), scarf (H&M), gloves (Ugg Australia via Century 21)

True Story: My husband and I met on the first day of college orientation, and we’ve been pretty much inseparable ever since.  As more than a thousand students streamed out of the gymnasium, he says he noticed me and my bright pink shirt and matching bucket hat in the crowd and came over to say hi because I looked friendly.

Thank goodness I was sooooo into matching back then!

Needless to say, we have many fond memories of this place.  We don’t do it nearly often enough, but my husband and I are always psyched to head uptown and visit our old college campus.

Sidebar, the statue I’m standing in front of is called Alma Mater. According to legend, the first student of each Columbia College class to find the owl would graduate Valedictorian.

Neither of us were the first to find said owl.