Students@UM-Flint

In 1933, Spanish poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca gave a lecture entitled “Play and Theory of the Duende.” The goal of this speech, he said, was to “try to [give a] simple lesson in the hidden, aching spirit of Spain.” What followed were words tinged by ancient mystique and gypsy culture as Lorca described the […]

It’s been more than a week and it still hasn’t really sunk in that I’m a graduate of the University of Michigan-Flint. Graduation was such a surreal experience for me. It never really hit me that I was sitting on stage with faculty and staff of the university, prepared to make a speech in front […]

“I said I would never touch American soil,” my adviser Eva told me, laughing as we walked the streets surrounding the University of Manchester. Having grown up in Spain, she heard a great deal about US intervention in South America. In countries such as Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Cuba, the US government had supported rebel groups […]

This summer, I will be interning at a mobile application development company called Detroit Labs–“a group of talented mobile app designers, developers, and more in Downtown Detroit.” At Detroit labs I’ll be learning iOS programming, and developing apps for iPhones and iPads. As a newbie to iOS mobile development, I spent the majority of my […]

When I told people I had never flown before, they were pretty surprised. “Never? . . . Not once?”, they would ask. Nope, never. So when I told them I was going alone to Manchester, UK, they were even more surprised. I arrived after a 24-hour delay last Friday, having faced the loss of a […]