Note: I'll be spending the first half of my summer in Thailand on behalf of Pomona's Pacific Basin Institute. If you'd like to read a little more about my project and PBI's documentary grants, see my previous post about it here!
Dear summer readers,
Hello! I’m writing from a place farther from home than I’ve ever been before: Bangkok! I am surviving my second layover a...
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Month: May 2013
Justin’s (Unofficial) Tour of Pomona College: Introductions
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Pomona College. My name is Justin Gutzwa, and I'm a rising senior at Pomona. I'm originally from Las Vegas, Nevada, and I am an Anthropology major with a minor in Politics. When I'm not giving tours, I'm a senior interviewer in the Pomona Office of Admissions over the summer, an intern during the school year, involved in several clubs, a depart...
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Graduation and Goodbyes
I feel like a bit of a cheater writing this. After all, this is a Pomona student blog, and technically I am no longer a Pomona College student. As of Sunday, I am officially an alum.
That is terrifying. I know I say that a lot (about being a senior, about writing a thesis, about being almost done) but now I really mean it. It has not really sunk in yet. I’m not enti...
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Oh, The Places We’ll Go!
What is next for Pomona College seniors? We’re headed off in all kinds of directions! I want to start with one of my favorite authors, because Dr. Seuss says it best:
Selections from “Oh the places you’ll go!” (read the full text here!)
Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away! (more…)
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The End
“I’m spending my Fall 2012 semester in Edinburgh, Scotland. My process in choosing this program may be optimistically described as “holistic” because of what I half-jokingly identify as crippling indecision (I’m at Pomona because a Canadian penny landed on tails, after all. But that worked out well!) And although I have perhaps never been so excited in my entire life ever ev...
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Hello Junior Year!
The fact that I just wrote that title is so crazy to me. JUNIOR!? As in more than halfway through. As in, officially an upperclassman. How is that even possible!? I remember like it was yesterday moving in, signing up for my first college classes and meeting my sponsor group for the first time. Now I'm two years away from that!
At 11:00 AM today, I handed my physics pro...
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Goodbye
To me, one of the weirdest things as I finish up freshman year is that I'm having to come to terms with saying goodbye, and not just a ' have a great summer, see you in three months' type of thing, but actual 'hope to see you again sometime, but if not, have a great life' goodbyes. I just assumed that this wouldn't be a problem in my first year. I mean, I'm still going to be ar...
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At Last
This week and the one before have for me been full of lasts. Well, technically the whole year has been full of lasts but I’ve tried not to dwell on that. In the past couple of weeks I have had my last orchestra rehearsal and concert, my last a cappella rehearsal and concert, my last tap club rehearsal and concerts tonight and tomorrow (see a pattern?), alongside the more mome...
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Alumni Weekend
I spent last Saturday morning manning an archival table for alumni weekend, and found myself greeted with premature nostalgia, if there is such a thing. First, a group of ’08 alums bounced in for their five-year reunion, looking at old diaries and laughing about how long the sponsor program had been around. One talked to me about collecting Pomona memorabilia from Ebay. Anot...
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Warning: Dining Halls May Expand Your Food Horizons
The dining halls are a pretty standard and yet important part of our college experience here at Pomona. Since most people live on campus, most of us eat the vast majority of our meals at the dining halls, either Frank or Frary (or Oldenborg) or at another campus. All issues between the administration and the dining hall workers aside, I think our dining halls are pretty good....
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