- 10/ I Remember Making the Decision to go to UMBC; or, Hospitality Saves the Day I remember being a senior in high school and having to make that awful decision: Where to go to college. I remember being disappointed that my top schools either wait-listed me, rejected me, or were-heinously-too-expensive-for-me. I remember having a minor tantrum as we drove up to Baltimore to interview for the final round of the […]
- 1/ I Remember Having a College Radio Show I remember WMBC, AM 560. Jeff, Nate and I rocked the mic at very odd hours of our UMBC radio days. We cued up the likes of Starflyer 59, Danielson Family, and other bits and pieces from Tooth and Nail records and their homies. We’d maybe sometimes play this weird dude with a banjo named […]
- I Remember UMBC Womens’ Golf 1998-2002 [God Rest Her Soul] I remember winning an important golf tournament in high school, and hoping for a college scholarship. I remember being very disappointed that it never materialized. I remember people in my town yelling at me for choosing a university with no womens’ golf team. I remember freshman year at UMBC: missing golf, writing newspaper articles covering […]
- Redemptive Golf-team R.I.P. My alma mater, UMBC, is headed to the NCAA division I basketball tournament for the first time. This is a very big deal for our very young Baltimore university. I only mention it because the year I graduated, UMBC chose to take away funding from a handful of smaller Varsity programs–including the womens’ golf team […]
- Take That, Terps I just got word that the UMBC Lacrosse team beat the pants off of the University of Maryland to enter the quarter-finals of the NCAA championship. This is huge news for Baltimore! And for the ever-underdog UMBC Retrievers. As a UMBC Golf team alum, I remember no other rival than the Maryland Terps, the Uni […]