Image via Flancake.co It dates back to 2011. I was participating in the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Pre-college Program. She was there, too. And though, we didn’t mingle as much during the four-day course, years later we are still friends. Flannery and I have shared important moments in our careers, even though we see each other once every year. We first went together to Teen Vogue’s Fashion University in 2011 and then to its 2012 edition. In 2014, we shared a room at The New School’s 14th street dorms for an entire summer, in which we both interned at fashion companies. She was a design intern at Lulu Frost and I was a PR intern at Eddie Borgo. What blossomed from the 12th floor at The New School dorms was an awesome friendship, in which Flannery was the risk-taker (aka. doing her own piercings) and I was the concerned mom. Since then, Flannery has created her blog Flancake and worked for Seventeen Magazine in their Sales & Marketing Department. Currently, she is an Apparel Merchandising …