@fiuinstagram Panther Alumni Week (PAW). When I was at FIU, I was basically completely out of my mind, painting every day, skating every day, loving my tribe, being bad, very bad at times, and somehow making Dean’s List. After I graduated with a BFA, I became a stock boy at an art supply store. Working minimum wage and going nowhere...but still painting. Then I got a copy of university rankings from US News. I applied to the #1 school for an MFA in painting. That’s how I went from working minimum wage to @yaleschoolofart 📷 The photo (that’s me) is from when we would climb to the top of a canopy and jump without any rope into lower trees and catch branches to not die. 🌴🌴🌴 I love my brothers from those days. But of all those people one person means more me than anyone else-that’s my brother Jeff London (also my first friend in America). The soundtrack to our lives was Jeff’s band Fay Wray (this album) and @radon_gainesville (from my other bro Dave Rohm) ❤️❤️❤️🤟🤟🤟❤️❤️❤️ #fiu #fiuhonors #pantheralumniweek #story #onlyyouknow . Oh, and I won’t mention the time I just spontaneously decided to leave to Peru in the middle of the semester. Decision made at noon and in Lima that night. 🇵🇪 . And lastly, I think these dirt under my fingernails experiences were the best prep for 10 years of me taking @fiuhonors students to Europe. Gotta have lived. ✊ (at Florida International University) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtjYzPxFHJq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1a4uxr7jr7w9h