This past weekend, I went on an AAMP retreat to Halona, despite my upcoming chemistry midterm.
I know that a number of my spiblings went on other retreats with their mentor groups: the girls across my room went with CLSA, and my roommate went with OBSA. I, along with Catherine Chen, were the only ones to go on the retreat from our spogro.
AAMP is the Asian American Mentor...
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Month: September 2012
TEDx Claremont
Today, the 7 C’s hosted TEDx Claremont Colleges, a TED event right here in Garrison on Scripps campus, organized by a crew of students. I could go on explaining what TED is and why TED talks are awesome, but if you want to know all the details check it out at ted.com (be careful, you could find yourself spending a LOT of time on there). Basically, TED is a forum for peo...
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I’m Coming Home, Tell The World, I’m Coming Home!
It has been a whirlwind of a first month of school. In some ways, I can't believe it has already been a month but sometimes I feel like I've been in these classes for ages. One thing different than last year is that I am much busier. Between hard classes (see my organic chemistry rant from last week), two jobs, and more friends I'm finding it hard to find any free time at al...
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The Hunger Games: Pomona
Once again, I find myself wanting to go to all the events put on by groups at the 5Cs. My original plan for last night was to attend a screening of The Dark Side of Chocolate hosted by the Environmental Analysis (EA) department so that when I tell people I don’t like chocolate, I would have an arsenal of reasons of why chocolate is bad, not just to my taste buds, but for the en...
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Pomona Goes to St. Petersburg!
Rebekah Cramerus, '14 and Linguistics Major, explores St. Petersburg during her year abroad in Russia.
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Blast From the Past: Pre-Internet Pomona
A time before internet!? Trust me, it did exist. However, my college experience has been so completely defined by the internet that it is hard for me to imagine how it used to be. I contact and organize clubs though email, submit papers and get readings with Sakai, send group work back and forth with Google Docs, waste time on Facebook, and of course Pomona’s own methods of ...
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One Month…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC_q9KPczAg
It's been one month since our Move-In Day
Still can't believe I'm here now to stay
5 weeks since ISMP
Met people from Japan, Zimbabwe, and Greece
It's been 3 weeks since the OA trip...
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The Architecture of Happiness
For anyone that has seen the movie (500) Days of Summer, this title may ring a bell as the book that Tom Hansen gave to Summer Finn as a present for her housewarming party. However, it is also a book by Alain de Botton on the syllabus for EA 20: Nature, Culture and Society that I just recently completed. If you haven't read this book, I'm going to be frank and say it was quit...
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Un-Schooling
I’m constantly inundated by flyers, emails, and table tents telling me to go to one talk or another. I wish I could attend all of them. But then, I wouldn’t have time for social events and school work and jobs. Still, I try to make it to as many as possible, even if I should conceivably be working on something else.
So, even though I had a Computer Science assignment due the...
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Even the Fish Party Hard at Pomona
Being a neuroscience major, research and lab work is a huge part of my academic workload. Once past the intro neuroscience courses, the upper-level courses expect students to be able to develop and test research hypotheses as a part of the labs. For example, in Neuroscience 110 last semester, also known as Developmental Neurobiology, I worked with zebrafish, or Danio rerio. The...
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