Аннотация: MMMDCXLVIII. Socks from China help a girl-student from Harvard. A story. - April 16, 2025.
Socks from China help a girl-student from Harvard. A story.
Joan is a student. She is a first-year student. She plans to become a professional journalist.
Her whole day is scheduled by the minute: sleep, jogging, classes, working as a waitress in a fast food restaurant...
Joan has been interested in journalism for a long time. It is important for an outstanding journalist to find "his own topic", a kind of personal "professional brand".
Where can she find "her topic"? In matters of gender diversity? In ecology? In healthcare financing?.. All these topics have been "occupied" and "mastered" for a long time...
By choosing one of these topics, she will "drown" in a huge array of texts and videos...
Joan returned to the student campus, to the dormitory after a work shift - after working as the waitress at the fast food restaurant.
She needs to prepare for tomorrow.
Joan prepares shoes for morning running, socks, sweatpants, a T-shirt.
Her gaze falls on the socks: "made in China." The socks are in a separate box on a shelf in the closet. Joan buys 50 pairs of socks at once. Socks are cheap: after a morning run, Joan puts the used socks in the trash, and the next morning picks up a new, unused pair.
However, the "tariff revolution" can make changes in the situation and can correct the habits that have been formed.
She may have to wash her socks and use the same pair for several days!
Joan picks up a pair of socks and starts the stopwatch on her wristwatch. Let's say she's carrying a pair of socks to the washing machine - it takes a few seconds. She takes the socks out of the washing machine and hangs them out to dry (or she dries them in the washing machine) - it takes a few more seconds.
She will have to shorten the duration of her morning run by 2-3 minutes!
Joan looks at her wristwatch, at the stopwatch reading. She is sitting in her room on a chair, next to her is a table on which there is an open laptop. Next to the laptop is a new pair of unused "made in China" socks. She will wear these socks tomorrow morning before a wellness run.
Her fingers reach for the keyboard.
She types the headline: "The impact of new tariffs on student sports."
Joan looks at the screen in surprise. It seems that in ten minutes the material will be ready, which can be offered both for the student newspaper and for other editions - now everyone is writing and talking about the new tariffs and about the results of the "tariff revolution".
She looks at the socks from China.
It seems that she has found "her theme", her "professional brand"! Now she will not "drown" in a huge array of texts and videos about the gender diversity, environmental conservation, and healthcare financing!...
April 16, 2025, 23:59 (11:59 p.m.)
Translation from Russian into English: April 17, 2025 01:06
Владимир Владимирович Залесский ' Носки из Китая помогают студентке из Гарварда. Рассказ. '.
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