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Jason’s Goals

This Semester

• Balance Architecture Grad school while still going out and partying
• Finish Rosetta Stone: French CDs and continue learning French
• Make an impression with the students and professors in the architecture department
• Stop biting my nails when I do a project

This Year

• Successfully finish first year of grad school
• Take an apparel studio/class – Learn to sew
• Wear clothes I designed and made in public
• Get an internship in France – live in Europe for a few months again
• Continue designing, improving, experimenting with techniques for my humidors/jewelry boxes
• Sell at least one humidor or jewelry box

2 Years

• Finish RISD grad school and have a top job lined up
• Start a successful and consistent line of humidors/ jewelry boxes
• Be fluent in French/ taking French at Brown
• Feel confident in my apparel skills
• Have my friends/girlfriends want to wear the clothes ive designed
• Travel to at least 2 new countries for a week at least once a year
• Continue selling my humidors/jewelry boxes

5 Years

• Buy a Lotus
• Be in a design firm making a lot of money, in preparation to start my own practice
• Open a cigar lounge and sell my humidors/jewelry boxes
• Enter a competition
• Live in France for at least one year
• Be engaged/find a girl that I would want to get engaged too
• Be the first thing to pop up when you google “Jason Alvarado”
• Be financially stable and quite wealthy
• Have a high demand for my fashion designs and humidor/jewelry boxes

10 Years

• Own my own firm/practice
• Design a collection and have a runway show
• Have my own line of clothes
• Be on project runway
• Have my own line of humidors/jewelry boxes
• Place top 3 in an architecture competition
• Buy a Ferrari/Pagani (some expensive supercar)
• Be in a great marriage with at least one kid
• Be successfully known as a Fashion Designer, Humidor Designer, and Architect
• Own a vacation house in France
• Work whenever I see fit
• Be written about in design books and be researched and be some students favorite designer

Inspiration

• Elie Bleu – French humidor/jewelry box designer
• Mondo Guerra – Fashion designer from project runway
• Elie Saab – Lebanese fashion designer
• Lionel Messi – Soccer player for Argentina National team and Barcelona Club team