Students Say

  • my name: Shawna Desrosiers
  • my major: International Studies
  • my hometown: Fort Kent, Maine
  • childhood ambition: be a cowgirl
  • fondest Farmington memory: Lawn Chair Pirates shows and Purington Hall basement
  • wildest dream: To travel everywhere
  • proudest moment: performing in Inherit the Wind
  • I live to: travel
  • biggest challenge: to do all the things I want to do
  • best class taken: Honors Biotechnology and the Post-human
  • mentor / hero: Spanish professor Linda Britt, and English instructor/playwright Jayne Decker
  • guilty pleasure: anything sparkly
  • perfect day: June in Farmington
  • indulgence: Gifford’s Ice Cream
  • favorite book: Can’t pick any one
  • favorite movie: Amelie
  • inspiration: Kevin Brooks
  • why Farmington: scholarship