{"id":55119,"date":"2023-12-13T12:18:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T17:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/?p=55119"},"modified":"2024-11-02T05:40:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T09:40:41","slug":"thomas-rosemond-woven-into-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/2023\/12\/thomas-rosemond-woven-into-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Rosemond: Woven Into Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
For Thomas Rosemond, there was no alternative to NC State.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t apply anywhere else. I knew, one way or another, I\u2019d end up here. Whether it took me a year or two, whatever it was. Luckily, I got in,\u201d said Rosemond.<\/p>\n\n\n
But his sights weren\u2019t always set on Raleigh. Growing up in a Wolfpack family \u2014 his father and brother are both NC State graduates \u2014 initially pushed him to rebel.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cFor a while in high school, it was \u2018anything but State,\u2019\u201d said Rosemond.<\/p>\n\n\n
It was the summer after his junior year of high school, when he enrolled in the Wilson College of Textiles Summer Textile Exploration Program<\/a> (STEP), that his mind finally changed. Drawn to fashion and retail from an early age, the STEP program seemed like the perfect opportunity to explore his options.<\/p>\n\n\n The week spent living on campus with access to the college\u2019s studios and labs was all it took.<\/p>\n\n\n \u201cYou get that little sneak peek of what college is like,\u201d said Rosemond.<\/p>\n\n\n