{"id":7479,"date":"2023-04-05T09:48:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T13:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=7479"},"modified":"2025-08-13T19:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:46:05","slug":"bringing-umpi-to-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2023\/04\/05\/bringing-umpi-to-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing UMPI to D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

      During the spring break of 2023, Dr. Jacqui Lowman brought 10 students and two service dogs to Washington, D.C. The students who went are part of clubs advised by Dr. J. The two clubs \u2013 University Times and International Students \u2013 worked together with Dr. J to make this journey to Washington possible. \u201cI really appreciate how the club and the school supported us and how all of the students and also Dr. J helped each other,\u201d Yunqian Zhan \u2013 senior at UMPI\u2014said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

     Yunqian, Dr. J  and the rest of the group got to see many new things because each day was an opportunity to see something new. \u201cI liked the botanic garden and the art museum,\u201d Yunqian said. The botanic garden is a huge garden with plants from all around the world. \u201cIt is an indoor garden and it\u2019s really well designed. There were multiple different chambers with different plants from other climate zones,\u201d Sheng Yan — junior at UMPI– said. The garden was a change of scenery from the northern Maine pine trees. \u201cIt was really good for guys like us –in the north\u2014to be able to see,\u201d Sheng said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Apart from the botanic garden, there were many Smithsonian museums in Washington that Dr. J and the group explored. They saw everything from dinosaur bones to famous paintings. \u201cThe National Art Gallery was my favorite part. There were a lot of authentic paintings by famous artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Monet, Picasso, Da Vinci. And it was not even crowded there,\u201d Sheng said. Even though the museums are free to the public, many people do not take the opportunity to go. This may be because of how much the city of Washington has to offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Washington, D.C., is a big place and the group had only four days to explore. Some of the students and Dr. J took the Big Bus tour to see many of the tourist spots that the city has to offer. \u201cThe weather was very nice while on the top part of the tour bus. And also, the layout was very nice and the commenter was very good, too. It was comfortable. How the city is laid-out with monuments, is very nice,\u201d Wesley Wu –senior at UMPI\u2014said. Even though D.C. is a big city, the monuments make D.C. easy to navigate. \u201cI like Washington. I think it’s better than Boston because the roads in Boston look all the same and I get confused,\u201d Shafil Kabir Turzo \u2013 sophomore at UMPI\u2014said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Each monument has captured big pieces of American history. But none of those monuments could compare to the one place in Washington D.C., that everyone knows something about \u2013 the White House. \u201cThe White House was my favorite part because it is a famous place. Everyone knows about the White House, especially in our country. It was a great opportunity. It\u2019s a big deal for me. I took lots of pictures to show people back home,\u201d Shafil said. \u201cI was expecting that they would be more strict…. I tried touching one of the paintings and the security guy said, \u2018Don\u2019t touch!\u2019\u201d The group got to go through the building and looked into many different rooms. The students had hoped to maybe see Joe Biden. But even though he was not around, the trip was memorable. \u201cIt was not exactly what I expected. But overall, I liked the trip,\u201d Sheng said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

      In those four days, the group had seen enough of D.C. to be satisfied with the trip. For Dr. J, the trip was successful and something that may happen again in the future. \u201cIt went very well. We would like to do this again someday,\u201d Dr. J said. \u201cWe are very proud of everyone who went with us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. J with Saint and Dusty Lowman, Wenjun Teng, Wesley Wu, Shafil Kabir Turzo, Sheng Yan, Yunlong Li, Fan Mo, Megan Waceken, and Mikey Bramble in the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      During the spring break of 2023, Dr. Jacqui Lowman brought 10 students and two service dogs to Washington, D.C. The students who went are part of clubs advised by Dr. J. The two clubs \u2013 University Times and International Students \u2013 worked together with Dr. J to make this journey to Washington possible. \u201cI really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8082,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions\/8082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}