Profile

Meet Garrity, student and …everything else.
by: Julia Taveras
Sarah Garrity Guenther, 20, is a student at Eugene Lang College trying to balance life, work, and having fun.
“Too many damn jobs”
Asides from being a Psychology major and Gender Studies minor, Garrity, as she prefers to be called, works at the University’s writing center and at New School’s phonaton, “I call alumni and student’s parents to ask them for money” she says with a smile. She’s also an intern for credit at the Psychology dept. at The New School for Social Research and is highly active in the school’s Feminist Collective.
But Garrity makes a distinction between her ‘two lives’. One life includes three jobs, an incredibly caffeinated and ‘lotta-shit-to-do’ routine. In her second life, she goes out hard, “I do the heels” she says, along with the subsequent glitter and late night ventures. “I need to blow some steam” says Garrity, “I physically cannot just…chill.”
“Smart Girl”
Garrity was drawn to New School by it’s list of renowned teacher-alumni. From working towards an early graduation date to finding a perfectly located and reasonably priced apartment on Bowery, Garrity seems to be very smart and practical about her choices. “I don’t like paying for things,” she says about finding a loophole out of her broker’s fee when she bought her apartment. In Garrity’s day to day, dressing up on the run doesn’t mean a flush on her credit card either. For anything formal or more “professional” she whips out a pair of black pants and coat from Zara, nail polish-free nails, along with some Dior mascara, and is out the door; very New York
“Kentucky is Stupid”
Garrity is interested in people and how they act, she is a gal of strong opinions who will openly express herself without flinching, even if she’s talking about the faults of her own state: “The second you leave Louisville and go to any other one of the cities or counties, it is the most backwards thinking, racist place I have ever been in my entire life.” Born in Chicago and raised in Kentucky, she points out that Louisville, the city she was raised in, is the exception. Her city is “like a smaller version of Portland and The Village minus the stupid hipsters” she says.
Watch your back New York, Garrity Guenther has a lot to say.