Outing Club Profile

By Jordan Gilletti on 05/13/11.

Outing Club Profile

The Outing Club has been around campus for several years.  I went on my first Outing Club trip in March -- to Big Rock ski resort.  I don't ski, but I thought it would be great to video my peers skiing and getting ready for the day.  Even without skiing, I had a blast.  It was fun to hang out with so many enthusiastic people.  I later interviewed the current officers of Outing Club to talk about the club.

Outing Club needs new officers for next year!  We need to keep this club going because it offers so much to the students.  If you are interested, please contact:

Andrea Ednie (aednie@maine.edu) or Kevin Alley (kalley@maine.edu) for more information in the fall!

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 - Jordan Gilletti '12

Around Campus -- Science 102

By Jordan Gilletti on 05/08/11.

Around Campus -- Science 102

Lauren Koss and David Spalvieri-Kruse introduce David's senior project in the Interdisciplinary Fine Arts on Saturday night.  David spent the year writing and recording his own album of music, entitled "Deep Waters."  Lauren created a video visual to accompany David's music. 

 - Photo by Jordan Gilletti '12

Around Campus -- The Pond

By Jordan Gilletti on 05/08/11.

Around Campus -- The Pond

Two Canada Geese wander around the pond on Saturday afternoon.  The geese have been spotted near the pond for several weeks now.

 - Photo by Jordan Gilletti '12

Around Campus -- KAK Car Wash

By Jordan Gilletti on 05/08/11.

Around Campus -- KAK Car Wash

This past weekend, the sisters of Kappa Alpha Kappa held their annual car wash fundraiser.  All proceeds this year go to helping local family planning organizations.

 - Photos by Jordan Gilletti '12

National Geographic's Giant Map of Asia

By Jordan Gilletti on 05/08/11.

National Geographic's Giant Map of Asia

On Saturday, one of National Geographic's giant floor maps visited the UMM campus.  The map also came with several accessories, including posters, a trunk with instructions for the map, and note cards detailing wildlife native to Asia.

 - Jordan Gilletti '12

Spring Weekend

By Jordan Gilletti on 05/08/11.

Welcome to Spring Weekend!

Spring Weekend is held annually on campus during one of the last weekends of spring semester.  Aramark caters a barbeque-style lunch for the event.  Each year, there are various stations and activities for students and faculty to participate in.  Some of this year's highlights include the rock climbing wall, sign and t-shirt making stations, the inflatable obstacle course, the mechanical bull rides, and the photobooth.  Students performed live music throughout the afternoon.

Personally, I think that the best part of Spring Weekend is just seeing campus busy and buzzing.  I'm glad that it was such a beautiful day so that we could all take advantage of enjoying time outside before the semster comes to a close.

 

 

 - Photos by Jordan Gilletti '12

Greek Games 2011

By Jordan Gilletti on 05/05/11.

Greek Games 2011

This past week, the annual Greek Games were held on campus.  Both active Greeks and alumni participated in various games against each other, with the majority of games occurring Saturday.  Great job to everyone who participated, and congratulations to KAK and Psi Delta, who both won Greek Games for the first time in the history of their sorority and fraternity.

 - Photos by Jordan Gilletti '12

Russian Scavenger Hunt

By Jordan Gilletti on 05/04/11.

Russian Scavenger Hunt

I was glad that it was sunny on Monday.  Why?  Because I had to participate in a scavenger hunt.

How do you you say "Scavenger Hunt" in Russian?  (The best part of this photo is Garrett's face of contemplation in the background.)

Meghan Duff, my Russian professor, decided that it would be a fun idea to paste Russian words and phrases around campus.  She gave us a clue sheet to work off and allowed us a half an hour to wander campus, collecting and translating everything we could find. 

Armed with pencils, dictionaries, and smartphones (if we had them), the entire class dispersed into small groups across campus.  The first place my group went to was the Science Building.  After reading the sign outside, we went inside to see what was pasted on the window.  We had a Russian proverb to decipher.

The problem with Russian proverbs – or any foreign proverbs, really – is that the literal translations can be really confusing.  There generally could be a more appropriate translation that is not linguistically identical, per se, but culturally similar.  The above phrase roughly translates to something along the lines of “when the goat eats the wolf.”  This is the Russian equivalent of “when pigs fly.”  (Fun fact: I Google-searched the phrase in Russian on my iPod to figure this out.  Otherwise, I’m sure my group would have stood outside of Science 102 for a while, wondering if the goats in Russia were just carnivorous or something.)  After figuring out that phrase, some of my group members began to decipher the Russian on the opposite wall.

I guess Meghan thought it was funny to point out that the display case was full of many dead birds.  It was a little humorous to slowly read a sentence in Russian, thinking that it might have deep meaning, and then come to realize that it was only descriptive.  After writing the Russian and the English down on our worksheets, we ran to Powers Hall to find more scavenger hunt items.

Now, for the next big item on the list, it may not have been me figuring it out one-hundred percent.  When I was meeting with Erik Smith (who does Marketing and Public Relations for UMM) on Monday morning, Meghan came by with a label for his door.  She explained to Erik that students would be coming by his office to say, “priviet!” and that that meant “hello!” in Russian. 

Whose office is it?  If he is home, say hello!

My group only made it through most of Powers Hall, recording each bit of Russian we saw. 

Top left: These are stairs... Interesting, yes?  Top right: Woman's Restroom

Bottom left: Theater  Bottom right: President's Office

We didn’t make it over to Kimball Hall before our time was up, which means we had several things left unfound. 

At the end of class, Meghan had us pose with our “Word Stories,” which will be displayed at Celebrate UMM on Thursday, May 4^th, at 4:30.  As an incentive to attend, here’s a preview of our word stories.  To find out what they are, come by Celebrate UMM on the first floor of Torrey Hall; our word stories will be up for all to see.

 - Jordan Gilletti '12

Relay for Life: Machias

By Jordan Gilletti on 04/28/11.

Relay for Life: Machias

This past weekend, I stopped by Relay for Life in the Fitness Center.  If you’re unfamiliar with what Relay for Life is, I’ll give you a quick synopsis: Relay for Life is sponsored by the American Cancer Society, so that those whose lives have been affected by cancer (either by knowing relatives or friends that have had it, or having cancer themselves) can raise money for cancer research.  It’s an overnight event; the Machias Relay had both students and community members present from six o’clock Friday night until nine o’clock on Saturday morning.  Throughout those fifteen hours, people were constantly walking around the edge of the gym.

Above: A panoramic view of Relay for Life in the Fitness Center, viewed from the KAK'n'Friends corner.

Below: A panoramic view of Relay for Life in the Fitness Center, viewed from the front doors of the gym.

UMM’s own KAK and Psi Delta had an area set up for their brothers, sisters, and alumni to rest between walks.  KAK was walking to support Andrew Damon, who was recently diagnosed with testicular cancer.  (KAK’n’Friends were all wearing special t-shirts as they walked in support of Andrew.)

I initially stopped by to take a few pictures of the event, as well as some of my friends that were walking in the Relay.  When I arrived a few hours into the event, I found that there was a sort of vigil going on, where the lights were turned low and a projector displayed the names of all those that people at come to the Relay to support.  Illuminated paper bags outlined the gym, each holding the name of someone who had once been diagnosed with cancer.

When the walking continued, the energy in the room was kept high by various events.  Every hour had a theme, so that those walking could dress up and walk along to the beats of various kinds of music.  One hour was a country hour.  Another was a holiday-themed hour.  My favorite hour was the glow-in-the-dark hour.

As everyone walked around the track, they could see various booths that different groups had set up.  There was support for every type of cancer imaginable. 

I feel asleep around three in the morning.  The KAK/Psi Delta area had several tents and chairs set up, and I promptly curled up on a futon and fell asleep for a few hours.  When I woke up, the organizers of the Relay were announcing how much money had been raised by this year’s event.  This year, the Machias Relay for Life raised $35,000.

The best part about this event is that it draws so many different people together in support of one thing: cancer research.  I look forward to see how much money will be raised at next year’s Relay for Life.

 - Jordan Gilletti '12

The Success of the Student & Faculty Reading

By Jordan Gilletti on 04/26/11.

Student & Faculty Reading

I will admit this: I was a little nervous for the annual Student & Faculty Reading.  Rob Froese had asked me, Hillary, and Caitlin to help him out.  We had to make sure there would actually be students and faculty there to read some of their poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.  I'm always afraid that no one will end up reading.  Luckily, it was a success.  Something like this is hard to write about secondhand, because one really needs to witness the readings to understand, but we have some really talented writers at this school.  I put together a video showing 30-second clips of a few of the readers from the other night. 

I also have photographs of everyone that read (except myself). 

     

 - Photos and Video by Jordan Gilletti '12

Newman Club Supports "New Eyes for the Needy"

By Jordan Gilletti on 04/22/11.

New Eyes for the Needy

Mallory Ward, a member of the Newman Club, poses with some of the eyeglasses collected for New Eyes for the Needy.  The Newman Club collected a total of 47 pairs of glasses within several weeks.

 - Photo by Jordan Gilletti '12

Thou Art Fair

By Jordan Gilletti on 04/22/11.

Thou Art Fair

Thou Art Fair is held on the UMM Campus every year for area high schools.  Students are encouraged to see and create.  Throughout the event, live music was played.  The above slideshow shows various tables from Thou Art Fair.  The below image is a spanning panorama of the gym, morphed and busy during the event.

 - Photos by Jordan Gilletti '12

Machias meets Augusta: The Terry Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival

By Jordan Gilletti on 04/22/11.

The Terry Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival

On Saturday, April 16^th, some of the Binnacle and Araby club members went to Augusta for the annual Terry Plunkett Poetry Festival.  And as soon as we arrived at the University of Maine at Augusta, we lost the car key.

Coach Gerard NeCastro had borrowed one of the University vehicles to drive us down to Augusta.  There were only four of us: Sean, Melissa, Anna, and me.  (We all also went on the trip to Boston as well.)  We alternated sleeping throughout the car ride, since we did have three hours of road time to kill.  But as soon as we parked the car in the UMA parking lot, Coach couldn’t find the key. 

He ushered us inside so that we wouldn’t miss most of the festival.  Still, we worried.  Anna, Melissa, and I went out to the car to help Coach search for the key.  It wasn’t on the seat, under the floor mats, under the car, or even in his pockets.  We searched everyone’s bags, even those that were nowhere near the ignition during the drive.  Still no key.  Resigned, we went inside to listen to the readings, hopeful that we would not end up stuck in Augusta for the night.

I think we all had different favorites throughout the readings.  One of my favorites was the mother/daughter team that both wrote and read sonnets, Marta and Maggie Finch.  The mother had just celebrated her 90^th birthday.  Ninety!  To be ninety and still writing poetry is just extraordinary to me.  There were also discussions between the readings, such as the effect of the digital age on poetry and writing.  A panel of poets sat at the front of the room for each discussion.  We also got to hear the Poet Laureate of Maine, Wes McNair, read.  Coach and I asked him to come and read at UMM in the fall.  (He said yes, as long as we paid for gas.) 

Near the end of our stay at the poetry festival, we were all asked to read our own poetry before the open mic began, since we had traveled from Machias.  I was pretty nervous, to say the least.  Once we had finished reading, we got to listen to a few of the open mic readers before we had to leave.

Melissa, Anna, Jordan (me), and Sean just before leaving the poetry festival.

As for the lost key situation… Bob Farris drove from Machias to Augusta to give us the spare key for the car.  Thank you, Bob!

 - Jordan Gilletti '12

Russian in the (Elementary) Classroom

By Jordan Gilletti on 04/11/11.

Russian in the Elementary Classroom

I woke up early on the morning of Monday, April 11^th to teach Russian. 

Meghan Duff, Assistant Professor of Psychology (and my Russian teacher), had the idea to teach elementary school students some basic Russian.  Meghan taught a Russian course over the summer, and Judy Hanscom – a first-grade teacher at Rose Gaffney Elementary School in Machias – took the course.  As luck would have it, Kayla Kelley – my classmate – is the student teacher for Judy Hanscom’s classroom. 

Kayla normally teaches History to the first graders, but she prepared this special Russian lesson for on that particular Monday.  A few of our classmates volunteered: Joe and Azaline, as well as Meghan and I.  When we first arrived at the school, we stood up for the Pledge of Allegiance with the kids.  (I’m honestly surprised that I still remembered it.)  Kayla then began the lesson by having the first graders repeat greetings in Russian.  The kids were all very responsive, and I could tell how excited they were to learn a new language.  One little boy commented on how “funny” some of the words sounded, especially in comparison to the English and Spanish words they already knew.

Kayla then set up a PowerPoint that Meghan had supplied her with: Russian animal noises.  In Russian class, we had gone over these noises several times before, but I still found them funny.  (Who would have thought that animal noises would be expressed differently in other languages?) 

After the initial greetings and the animal noises, the kids sat at their assigned tables, and each of us got to work with a group, reviewing how to say “hello” and “how are you?” in Russian.  I squeezed myself into a little desk chair; I do not know how I managed to stand up again at the end of the lesson.  My group’s favorite part of the lesson was learning how to write their names using the Cyrillic alphabet.  One little girl couldn’t wait to go home and show her mom what her name would look like in Russian. 

While I am definitely not a morning person, it was worth it to wake up at seven on that rainy Monday morning to help Kayla out.  I think Meghan said it best when she noted that our hour in the classroom went by much quicker than she had anticipated.

Azaline, Kayla, Jordan (me), Joe, and Meghan at the end of our lesson.

 - Jordan Gilletti '12

In the Classroom -- Russian

By Jordan Gilletti on 04/04/11.

In the Classroom -- Russian

Today, I found myself confused.  I walked into my Russian class, and Professor Meghan Duff handed me a paper cup.  On the walk to class, I had been flustered about my day and thinking about an assignment I had to hand in.  Instead of handing in an assignment first thing, however, I was greeted with a table covered in candy.  Next to the candy were three bottles of Russian soda.

Meghan bought the candy and soda at a Russian market in Westbrook, Maine, near Portland.  We all got to choose our own candy, which was mostly chocolate of some sort, and try each drink.  The first drink we tried was Tarhun.  It is made from the herb tarragon.  I found the flavor to be very mild; the most startling thing about it was that it was bright green!  The second drink was Kvas, which was brown.  It is a drink made from fermented rye bread!  Some varieties in Russia can be sour or contain alcohol, but the brand we tried was sweet and without alcohol.  I said that it tasted like “if root beer and kumbucha had a drink baby.”  A lot of students in the class said that it even smelled like bread.

The Russian soft drinks Kvas (left) and Tarhun (center and right) at the end of Russian class.  Various leftover Russian candies sit in front of the bottles.

Trying drinks and candy from Russian was exciting.  We also listened to Russian folk songs and looked along with the lyrics.  I feel like I’m getting a better taste of the Russian culture.  I’m less nervous about heading to Russia in May on the trip sponsored by the school.  I’ve traveled abroad before, but not a trip with the school or to a country where the people speak another language.  The past few years, the school as sponsored trips to Italy and Ireland; next spring, the locations are Amsterdam and Paris.  But for me?  Right now, I’m looking forward to Russia, even if I still struggle a little with reading Cyrillic. 

 - Jordan Gilletti '12

New England Travels (Day 2)

By Jordan Gilletti on 03/24/11.

Welcome to Boston, Massachusetts!

Sunday, we headed into Boston.  We took the T.  Anna and I used our minimal knowledge of city subway systems to help guide us.  The problem with the subways is that they move so quickly; with such a large group, I could have easily envisioned someone being left behind.  We almost lost Sam as soon as we reached the station, too!  He had his headphones on and just kept walking toward the escalator; it was the funniest moment when Hillary had to run after him.  For a group of our size, the map of the T was certainly an asset.  (Melissa even made it her cell phone background in case anything happened.)

Top Left: Caitlin, Margot, and Sean on the subway.  Right: Coach and Melissa on the subway.

Bottom Left: Hillary and Bernie on the subway.  Bottom Right: Me and Anna on the subway.

Riding the subway was quite the experience.  We first hopped onto the Red Line, and then changed to the Green Line.  For a bunch of college kids (and professors) that are used to being in Machias, big city transportation was certainly a shock.

Top Left: The map of the T.  Top Right: The view of Boston from inside the subway.

Bottom Left: Sean and Margot leave the subway.  Bottom Right: Hillary stands by a giant map of the subway system.

One of the stops on the Green Line’s E Train was the Museum of Fine Arts.  The subway dropped us off about a block away from the entrance.  Once we entered the museum, the first exhibit of sorts that we saw was a video piece of velvet-covered basketballs falling down a staircase.  There was something strangely mesmerizing about that video.

We split up into various groups throughout our tour of the museum.  It’s really remarkable how much art can be held in one building.  The cliché idea of an art museum was forced out of my head as well.  There weren’t just paintings on the walls.  There were photographs, display cases full of porcelain and pottery, and even entire wings of the building devoted to ancient artifacts.  Some of the most remarkable pieces were marble sculptures.  To make something as hard as stone appear to be as fluid, moving cloth is just aweing. 

Top Left: Anna and Bernie look at a giant sculpture made from recycled materials.  Top Right:  Coach and Sam observe a painting.

Bottom Left:  Coach and Caitlin review a map of the museum.  Bottom Right: The group wanders through a corridor of the museum.

Top Left: Sean and Coach observe a porcelain dining set through a display case.  Top Right: Caitlin observes a marble statue.

Bottom Left: Anna points out her favorite part of a photograph in the photography exhibit.  Bottom Right: A Renoir painting, once on loan to another art museum, has returned to Boston.

The most disappointing part of the museum is that we didn't have enough time to see all of it.  Maybe I'll go again next year in hopes that I'll see more.  There is also a contemporary art wing opening in a few months that I'm hoping to see in the future.

- Jordan Gilletti '12

New England Travels (Day 1)

By Jordan Gilletti on 03/23/11.

Welcome to Salem and Concord!

This past weekend, I went on the UMM Binnacle-sponsored trip to Boston, Massachusetts.  (The Binnacle is the school’s biyearly literary magazine.)  The Binnacle sponsors this trip every spring, but I have never been on it before.  So, on Saturday morning, I woke up at 5:00 in preparation to leave.

Firstly, it was still dark when I woke up.  I’d like to note that it’s hard enough for me to get up on weekdays, let alone weekends, so this was quite a feat.  I met with my friend Anna so we could walk to the van together.  If you’ve been around campus, you’ve seen the UMM vans; they’re green and beastly, with enough seats inside to fit a classroom’s worth of students. 

Our journey really began once we were in the van.  Professor Gerard NeCastro (“Coach”) messed around with his new GPS system to direct Professor Bernie Vinzani to where we wanted to go.  Our first official stop was Salem, Massachusetts.   In Salem, we firstly wandered a small mall area, looking at some gift shops and grabbing snacks.  The first gift shop we walked into was fit for the likes of Marcus LiBrizzi, Professor of English.  (If you have ever had a class with Marcus, you would understand.)

 Left: Bones hang from the ceiling of the morbid gift shop. Center: As the group leaves the shop, we can see its sign is shaped like a coffin.  Right: Sean is excited to find a book about hiking haunted trails.

The honest highlight of this mall trip was getting lost finding the bathroom.  Anna and Melissa came with me to look for the bathroom.  The rest of our group had already left to wander Salem, but Coach stayed behind to wait for us.  Melissa and I had first wandered down this eerie hallway; it was empty and shaped strangely, with no windows and splotchy paint on the wall.  It led us to the other side of the mall, where we had entered.  We looped around again, this time with Anna joining us, and a few feet from the end of the hallway was the bathroom.  (I swear it wasn’t there before.)  As we headed back outside, we passed the Cinema inside of the mall, and found out that if we had had enough time, we probably could have gotten a discount:

Salem State has their own Clipper Cards as well, apparently.

Coach, Anna, Melissa and I couldn’t find the rest of the group.  We walked down into Salem, and then saw the historic cemetery we had planned to visit on top of a hill.  About five minutes after we had entered it, the rest of the group appeared.  The cemetery was strange because it looked out of place in the midst of all the modern buildings.  We stayed there for a while, looking at all the graves.  Many of those buried there had been persecuted in the Salem Witch Trials.

Left: The entrance to the cemetary details some of its history.  Center: Melissa, Anna, and I stand beneath an old tree.  Right: Anna, Melissa, Sam, Bernie, and Hillary look around the cemetary for interesting grave stones.

We left Salem, headed for Concord, Massachusetts.  We went to the Louisa May Alcott house (“Orchard House”) and took the last tour of the afternoon.  Louisa May Alcott is best known for writing the novel Little Women.  Her family lived in the midst of the Transcendentalist movement, and her father even built his own school of philosophy behind their house to teach his ideas.

Left: The welcoming sign of Orchard House, the home of Louisa May Alcott.  The novel Little Women is based in this household.  Center: The front of Orchard House.  Right: The school of Philosophy that Mr. Alcott built and taught in.

We weren’t allowed to take photographs inside the house, which is a shame because most of the original furniture was still there.  My favorite part was seeing all of the old books throughout the house.  The house also had drawings on its walls; Louisa’s younger sister was allowed to do her sketching on the walls, so many of her drawings were scattered throughout.

We left Orchard House for Walden Pond.  The park itself had closed, but we could still walk down to the pond.  It wasn’t what I had expected.  For some reason, I had pictured a little pond secluded in the middle of the woods; maybe I need to reread Henry David Thoreau’s Walden.  Instead, Walden Pond was the huge pond right off of the road. 

My first view of Walden Pond from inside the van.

The group was down there for a while, standing by the pond, taking pictures, and pulling chunks of ice out of the water. 

Left: The group mills around Walden Pond.  Center: Coach prepares to take a photograph of us at the pond.  Right: Hillary holds a piece of ice from the pond while Sam watches from behind her.

We took a few group pictures and enjoyed the beautiful weather.

Left: Melissa, Hillary, Me, Anna, Sam, Margot, Caitlin, and Sean pose for a picture by Walden Pond.  Center: Sean and Caitlin chat by the pond.  Right: We revisit the group shot, echoing the Can-Can dance kick.

Melissa decided to put her feet in the water, even though she knew it would be cold.   I thought I'd test out the water myself with my hand.

Left: Melissa stands and waves in the water at Walden Pond.  Center: I touch the water with a stick I found floating in the pond.  Right: Caitlin photographs us as we walk around the pond.

Left: Sam dances out his excitement for the trip.  Center: Margot, Sean, and Caitlin walk away from Walden Pond as the sun sets behind them.  Right: Melissa takes one last picture of the pond as we leave.

We left Walden Pond and went to our hotel in Waltham.  We went out for Indian food for dinner, and then wound down for the night, ready for our trip into Boston on Sunday.

 - Jordan Gilletti '12

Pep Rally

By Jordan Gilletti on 03/14/11.

Pep Rally

  

The night before the UMM Women's Basketball Team left for Iowa to compete in Nationals, both faculty and students came out to support them.  A pep rally was held in the Reynolds' Center; even Cappy, our long-lost school mascot, came out to celebrate with his friends Mario and Luigi.  Some highlights of the night included the Student/Faculty Basketball Game and several basket-shooting competitions.  And of course, no UMM Athletic Event would have been complete without Gene Nichols leading everyone in our school fight song.  It was great to send the Lady Clippers off with so much support.

 - Photos by Jordan Gilletti '12 and Erik Smith

Land of the Giants

By Jordan Gilletti on 03/10/11.

Land of the Giants

Student Activities arranged a GIANT Game Night on Friday, March 4th.  I wandered the gym to take pictures of the games; some of the games were so large that those playing them looked absolutely comical.  This was definitely a unique way to spend a Friday night, even if you did find yourself buried under footlong Jenga blocks.

 - Photos by Jordan Gilletti '12

Around Campus -- Portside

By Jordan Gilletti on 03/07/11.

Around Campus -- Portside

Sean Glidden and Margot Steele perform a ukulele cover of Sugarland's "Stuck Like Glue" on Thursday's Open Mic Night in Portside.  Open Mic Night is at 7PM on the first Thursday of every month.

 - Photo by Jordan Gilletti '12

Around Campus -- Torrey Hall

By Jordan Gilletti on 03/03/11.

Around Campus -- Torrey Hall

Students Eliza Pingree and Mike Hinerman review assignments for their Advanced Creative Writing class with Professor Robert Froese.

 - Photo by Jordan Gilletti '12

Musical Talent on Campus

By Jordan Gilletti on 03/02/11.

Musical Talent on the UMM Campus

Students Anna Adams, Chris Tomlinson, and Anna Ingraham -- as well as Aramark employee Alex Foster -- decided to create a band in anticipation for the WUMM-hosted Battle of the Bands on March 19th.  While they are all attending classes in different areas of study, (Anna Adams and Chris are in the Recreation Management program, while Anna Ingraham is an Interdisciplinary Fine Arts major), these students all have music in common.  They had spent many nights playing music in Portside, practicing some of each others' favorite songs, until Anna Adams came forward with an original song.  Anna wrote the song for her boyfriend, who lives on the island of Saint Croix in the Caribbean.  Her idea was to record the song as a Valentine's Day present to him, as well as to add the original song to their repertoire.

This is a sneak peak to the kind of talent we can expect to see at the WUMM Battle of the Bands on Saturday, March 19th.  The competition begins at 1:00PM.

Welcome!

By Erik Smith on 03/02/11.

Welcome!

My name is Jordan Gilletti, and I am currently in my third year at the University of Maine at Machias.  I’m studying English with a concentration in Book Arts.  I’m interested in different forms of publishing, both in physical and cyber form, and perhaps finding a way to combine the two.  I’ve started this blog as a way to show both students and prospective students what happens on the UMM campus.  I feel that a lot of things that go on around campus are often overlooked, which is sad because we at UMM have this great benefit of attending such a small school.  We have a small community that those who attend college on larger campuses are unable to experience.  I hope that, by looking at this blog, you will learn something new about UMM!