It's like you were valedictorian and then suddenly you're going for a semester at sea.

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The program is spearheaded by Stanford University's Institute of Design and the Unreasonable Institute, which has teamed up with Semester at Sea to embark on a 105-day journey to 13 countries around the world.

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While cruising around the world with the Semester at Sea program in 2011, Steitz, now a senior at Claremont McKenna College, was inspired by the diverse fabrics he began collecting from country to country.

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