When I first wrote for this blog during Fall 2012, I did so remotely while studying abroad in Edinburgh, Scotland. This year, I’ve returned to the office that made it all happen—this time, to work! I’m currently serving my second semester behind the student desk at the Office of Study Abroad, and it has only solidified how much I've valued my time in Scotland. For those who ...
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Author: dholstein
Tutorials
Pomona often boasts its small class sizes, but rarely advertises the pinnacle ratio of student-professor exposure: the tutorial. There are a number of tutorials offered each semester (along with independent studies, which sometimes follow a similar format), all of which promote oft treasured and sometimes-dreaded one-on-one time. I took a one-on-one tutorial in Spring 20...
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Leaving
In less than 100 days, Marston Quad will be bounding with activity. Blue and white flags will flutter in the wind and white chairs will be aligned like teeth in a perfect smile. My classmates and I will don floral dresses and collared shirts, and we’ll cover them in gigantic, flowing robes, and we’ll cover those with leis and hats topped with squares. We will sit through a...
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Hobbies
Mystically, my class schedule aligned in such a way that my Thursdays and Fridays are perpetually free. Because I’m deluded, a notion has settled into my mind that I’ll have less work this semester solely because my courses are distributed differently. And because I’m inclined to cling to this hope, I’ve begun to plan how I’ll divide this pseudo-free time.
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Résumé Woes
How is Pomona’s Career Development Office useful to its students?
My résumé should, hypothetically, be the pinnacle of my professional life. Organized into neat subsections about my previous employment endeavors and activities and skills, I have a vision of my ideal résumé pleasantly filling a page without threatening crowdedness. I imagine it with a minimalist design and ...
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A New Year
A new school year is particularly exciting because of its pristine promise. Untouched, it isn’t tarnished with a pile of papers or some looming exam. Instead, I peer at it, somehow distanced, and it is beautiful, comprised of Frary cookies and finished problem sets and warm Claremont nights.
Moments after Labor Day, this portrait is abolished and the school year is clo...
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OA
I’m arriving on campus in just eight days! An Orientation Adventure (OA) Leader position is responsible for my early return. I distinctly remember leaving Yosemite as a peppy (and at that point, dirty) first-year, wondering whether I’d ever return to OA again. I hoped so, because I thought it was the best thing in the entire world without exception, and that my life would in...
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The Imminent Future!
Before college, I held steadfastly to the notion that you don’t move up to the next grade until the summer was over. On the last day of fifth grade, my teacher congratulated us on becoming sixth graders and I rolled my eyes (in fact, this teacher noted on my report card I needed to have less “attitude.” At least I was developing a sense of self early on…?) My parents, also p...
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Research
Sitting in a café, I stared into my open book. I was about a week into my SURP and a week out of Thailand. After glossing over these pages and these words for seven days, the past month felt like it had never happened. Everyone chatted around me and I listened and I understood. The man next to me asked to use my outlet and it was understood. I read the words on the page ...
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