Early Risers

After 9 a.m. – and until the last classes of the day – UMBC is a busy place. The Commons and Quad and Academic Walk bustle with students and faculty and staff going busily about the business of learning. Classrooms and labs are filled with the sounds of lectures and discussions – or the concentrated silence of experiments and exams. The parking lots are full – and parking services employees write tickets to the scofflaws. But there is also a great deal going on at UMBC and in its vicinity before most people turn their cars onto the Loop or… Continue Reading Early Risers