I'm from Maine. I knew little about Texas when I arrived on campus. I had been accepted to the School of Library and Information Sciences and got off the shuttle bus from DFW to Denton. West Hall was the overflow dorm, where I lived for my first two semesters, starting in the fall of 1992. I checked in and decided to talk to the desk clerk right away.

"Where's the party?" I asked.

"You're off to a quick start. Just follow this street, walk down the hill and there's your party."

When I got down the bottom of the hill, I heard jazz music playing. I have been a jazz lover since I was a child. I have taken jazz vocal classes for several years.

I followed the jazz to Jim's Diner. I walked through the door, and four young people were blowing the place away. I later learned they were called The Juniors -- students of the One O'Clock Lab Band. I miss campus sometimes, but it's The Juniors I miss the most.

Sean McNair ('93)
Farmington, Maine