Wednesday, December 3, 2008

UMD alums share Washington DC experiences

Here's an interesting story from today's New Bedford Standard Times:


Washington, D.C., is a city for politics. It is also a city for people to chase their dreams. Seventeen young graduates of UMass Dartmouth, listed as "friends" on a Facebook group for university alumni, are chasing their dreams in the nation's capital.

But they don't really know each other. They were invited to join the UMass Dartmouth-Washington DC Alumni Club on Facebook by friends of friends or by their friend's friend's friend.

Some of them were willing to share their stories of life in the capital city, to talk about their dreams and to reflect on whether the real world is what they expected.

Read on...

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