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SMCC Students Scramble as School Enforces Email Switch
The recent tech transition to the new Student Information System (SISI) has created chaos for SMCC students, disrupting everything from financial aid to course registration. This has created outrage and panic among students. Why now? Why is this so called “seamless transition” anything but? Students with email addresses ending in @smccme.edu were required to switch… Read more
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Marine Science is Major… at SMCC
Marine Science at SMCC is one of only three 2-year community college marine science programs in the US. The program is uniquely exciting, with access to research vessels, student laboratories that aren’t available at other colleges, and faculty that are excited to engage with students every day. The two full-time faculty members for the major,… Read more
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New Country, Same Love: Nathan Mugisha’s Journey From Rwanda To SMCC
Nathan Mugisha ran the right wing of the basketball court and Charlie Houghton dribbled up the left side. The whole crowd anticipated what would happen next, as both Houghton and Mugisha made eye contact. In a blur Houghton threw the basketball to the far side of the rim. Mugisha jumped, caught the ball and slammed… Read more
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Are the schools traumatizing our students?
With the rapid approach of finals, I have noticed a phenomenon in myself and many other students here at SMCC: increased anxiety and fear about finals and the stress involved in testing. Why does this burnout or shutdown happen? From my experience as someone who grew up with a father who suffers from PTSD, I… Read more
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Trump and Mills Go Head-To-Head
The highly publicized heated exchange between President Donald Trump and Governor Janet Mills at a White House event for the National Governors Association in February has had adverse consequences for the state of Maine. President Trump was not happy with Governor Mills defiance and refusal to comply with his executive order to ban transgender women… Read more
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