Ballet at The Met

Coming from Claremont almost directly to New York City made for some serious culture shock. In contrast to the peaceful and spacious isles of Trader Joes on Foothill Boulevard, the Whole Foods in Union square where I do most of my grocery shopping is nothing short of a traumatic experience. The first time I entered the store I stood in the corner wide-eyed for a good five m...
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Ode to Taco Tuesday

There are many perks to sticking around campus after graduation. Abandoned furniture post-move out, continued printing access, and the air conditioned Smith Campus Center Living Room rank high on the list, but none can compare to my return to Taco Tuesday at Frank. The esteemed Taco Tuesday was not always on my radar as a student. Rather, much like my Southern heritage, ...
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Gearing Up in Admissions

First week with actual student interviews in the Admissions office! The first two weeks of our summer was dedicated to training and getting a feel for the admissions process as a whole, but now we get to sink our teeth into the real meat of the job: talking to prospective students. This part of the job is confidential, for obvious reasons, but I think it’s safe to say that the ...
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Articulate Experience

Despite what some hyper-literate humanities majors may claim – those, specifically, who use books-within-books to keep their pages marked – we all have limited vocabularies. Severely limited, I may even venture to say. Instead of the bottomless reservoirs we think we have, there is but a trickle of language available to us or, maybe, if one is peculiarly lettered, a puddle. Som...
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District of Humidity (Round Two)

Hello Sagehens! If you're reading this and are a current or recent grad student, congrats; you survived your freshmen/sophomore/junior/senior year! If you're an alum, thank you for hosting me in San Francisco during spring break for Pomona's Alternabreak, single-handedly making college affordable for me, and reading yet another summer intern's blog. Sophomore year is finally...
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Week One in the City That Never Sleeps

Jumping in to full days of dancing while acclimating to the bustle of NYC really makes a week fly by. I’m trying to savor every moment. My first week at the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive began with placement classes and orientation. We were lectured by a dietician about the importance of hydration and eating enough (but not too much) protein. The speaker stressed...
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Dialogue and Adventurousness

For Pomona students, summer demands adventure. The specificity of this claim - namely, that this addresses not all students, but Pomona-esque students alone - is deliberate. For your pleasure, the deliberation: Despite the earnestness of our wide-eyed, edge-of-our-seats classroom etiquette, we are, above all, autodidacts. We strive to learn, to improve ourselves through learnin...
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Revisiting, Revising, Perhaps Redefining My Own Identity.

During the college application process, we – the hopeful college applicants - get the sense that we have distilled the essence of our being. That the final Common Application essay or the UCAS personal statement embodies all that is good and important or bad and relevant about us up till that point in our lives. We waltz into college with this achingly naïve sense of self-k...
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On the Emptiness of Campus in Summer

Observations from a research-drained observer: the lawn of Walker beach lacks sunbathers; the residence hall windows, usually framing hard-at-work or hard-at-play students, stare back vacantly; and the streets and sidewalks and hallways all sit in a campus-wide barrenness. This is the effect summer has on Pomona - emptiness; an emptiness that reaches from the corners of Wig to ...
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