from scratch

Ruiz: Seeing my parents, who migrated to this country, come from nothing and start from scratch ties into that idea too.

The show, in its pre-digital days, was regularly bombarded with mail, fan letters, complaints, and sketch and job pitches, scribbled on everything from scratch pads to toilet paper.

The school also worked to burnish its reputation in harder sciences, building a molecular engineering program from scratch and a 10-story state-of-the-art biomedical research center.

However, she admits that carving a pumpkin from scratch, with nothing but a sharp knife, isn’t an easy feat.

“You need to start from scratch with the basics and tune out all the noise,” Murdoch said.