One thing I've always been proud of is my ability to be on top of my work at any given moment and not be overwhelmed. However, I have come to accept the fact that no one is immune to the fever that comes with Finals Season. Yes, dear readers, it is time. Maybe you could have denied it in early November, or even right until Thanksgiving, but now it's undeniable: finals are loomi...
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Author: Annie Moten
A California Thanksgiving
Disclaimer: There are actually no posts about Thanksgiving experiences from this year (at least not yet) on Voices, so I think one won't be too bad to read.
One debate I had going in to college was whether I should come home for Thanksgiving. At first, my mom was adamant that I come home, but I pointed out to her that it wouldn't be very practical to spend $600 just to be ho...
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How to Have a Thanksgiving Away from Home
As a student whose home is situated over 2,000 miles away from Pomona's campus, I can't go home for Thanksgiving without shelling out over $500 in a roundtrip ticket, so I'm staying in California for Thanksgiving. For those of you in a similar predicament, fear not, because you can still celebrate Thanksgiving albeit probably differently from how you used to. Here are some opti...
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Pomona From the Outside Looking In
Because I've been here for almost 3 months now, I tend to forget what a culture we have here at Pomona College and how unique it is. That is, I forgot until my boyfriend came over for the last few days and pretty much relived my first few days here. His stay here reminded me of the many quirks that are unique, not only to Pomona, but to the Claremont Colleges, so here is a (tot...
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Finding Inspiration
Sometimes, no matter how much brainstorming and planning I do, I just can't seem to come up with anything good to write, whether it's for a paper or for this blog. Well, after a couple of hours of trying to brainstorm for both this blog and an ID1 paper I have to write this weekend, I realized that inspiration doesn't always come from thinking about stuff related to the work yo...
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Some Tips to Ease the Discomfort that Comes with Schedule Building (A Freshman’s Experience)
Enrolling in classes: something that I think most of us look forward to, but also kind of dread at the same time. There's just something so exciting about seeing what your options are for the next semester, yet so nerve-wracking because the beautiful schedule that you spent all of this semester building in your mind might actually not be possible to accomplish. After the course...
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Home (Fall Break 2013)
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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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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#WorkFail (The First Day of Work That Everyone’s Bound to Experience Sometime)
I definitely have two of the coolest jobs on campus: this blogging gig, and my job as a Student Recording Engineer for the Music Department. But even though blogging is pretty straightforward and simple, I had no idea what I was in for as a Student Recording Engineer until my first day on the job, and I have to admit that parts of it really can be simple; you just have to reall...
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On That Rising Star Student Status…in CMC
When I came to Pomona College, I planned on being ambitious, getting recognized, and getting ahead, but I certainly didn't plan for it to happen at CMC. Whatever, though: I'm not going to complain about the opportunities I get, and it's not like CMC is below us or anything. Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised at how much I was thriving in my Cognitive Psychology (taught by the a...
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