I know that most people don't go home for Fall Break (mostly because only being home for 4 days isn't worth the money it costs), but when all I could see was nostalgic flashbacks of Miami and all of my favorite places there, I knew that it was the perfect time to use the Emergency Trip Home fund I'd been saving up for over the summer.
I'd had the trip perfectly planned out w...
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Month: October 2013
Where Do You Like to Study?
But before we start on optimal study-spaces, please allow me one moment to aggressively repress this strange urge to post photos I took over fall break. Rainbow displays on Rodeo, lens flares over the Santa Monica Pier, plates upon plates of SUSHI? No. Focus. Okay. I can do this. How about a rain-check? Okay, I think we can agree that it would be more productive for me to move ...
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Fall Break (again)
As I wrote a post on Fall Break last week, I won't repeat myself. Instead I'll just summarize my break and put up some pictures!
On Saturday, we headed for the hot springs. Unfortunately, we managed to get ourselves into a pretty interesting situation in which our little Subaru got lost and ended up barreling down a bumpy dirt road intended for Jeeps, dirt bikes, and ATVs. A...
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Breaking Away – Paleontology on Fall Break
The soft mud crumbled beneath our feet as we meandered across the barren terrain. Here and there, flat blades of gypsum caught our eye, shimmering in the light. All around us lay bits and pieces of petrified wood, brilliant fusions of magenta and crimson, emerald and azure. A lizard skittered away from us and into the safety of a small dessicated shrub. Above our heads, a plump...
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Fall Break, LA-Style
This past weekend, we 5C students were treated to our first break of the year. It was a blissful chance to avoid two days of school, Monday and Tuesday, and for many students an opportunity to get out of the routine of the Claremont bubble.
A number of students live close enough to campus to return home on long weekends. I'm from Florida, though; going home wasn't an option....
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Five Fun Fall Festivities
1. Visit a Pumpkin Patch and Carve a Pumpkin
Visit a pumpkin patch to pick out a pumpkin for carving. Though carving is slightly hazardous and very messy, this Halloween tradition is a classic.
How to carve a pumpkin:
Step 1: Using a sharp knife, cut the top off of the pumpkin
Step 2: Using a fork to scrape sides and large spoon to scoop out innards, gut the pum...
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Media State of Mind: A Project, An Enterprise & An Idea
As a newly-declared Media Studies major, I have a lot of media-related thoughts in my mind. An ocean of ideas. So I thought I could share a few of them with you all here.
A Documentary on Asian American Immigrants in Los Angeles
Rowland Heights is about half-an-hour's drive away from Claremont. The citizens of this
area are mainly Asian immigrants. The project I'm ...
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Fall Break!
Today, the Friday before Fall Break, is the two-year anniversary of my stepping foot on Pomona's campus. That fateful Friday, two years ago, I toured Pomona's campus for the first time, taken aback by the sunny October weather and friendly, laid-back attitude. Friends whizzed by each other on longboards, quickly checking in about plans for the break. Some students carried s...
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Work Ethic, Papers, and the College Freshman
work ethic
noun
a belief in the moral benefit and importance of work and its inherent ability to strengthen character.
This is what work ethic means to Dictionary.com. To some of my friends, work ethic is a myth. They say, "What is this foreign concept called 'work' that you speak of? And why would you do such an unpleasant-sounding thing? What? To get A's? I thought those...
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Open Channels
If you didn't already know, Dean Feldblum loves to tweet (see her Twitter), which makes her one of the coolest administrators I've ever known. But aside from that, she's not just an awesome administrator, but also a great human being. For many college and high school students, administrators--and even the Dean of Students (or the equivalent)--can sometimes be shadowy unknown fi...
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