Last week, I was granted funding for an eight-week summer research project through Pomona’s SURP! SURP (Summer Undergraduate Research Program) is a means to allow students to conduct focused, long-term undergraduate projects to help heighten students’ understandings of their academic interests. This is a wonderful and accessible program in that it makes it possible for studen...
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Author: dholstein
Work and Food
I’m a strong believer in the prevalence of tide-like semesters, and I feel as though I’m (once again) experiencing its effects. It begins with my workload like a sliver of sea far on the horizon, only just visible through the syllabi, which comes rushing toward my unwilling feet in a pre-spring-break surge. It then ebbs briefly before permanently settling back around my knees...
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Disneyland
It’s admissions season, and I’ve spent a healthy chunk of time mentioning positive Pomona facts to prospective students on my tours, sitting in my classes, and wandering around campus. One question that often bubbles up is about Claremont, and more specifically, its proximity to everything: the grocery store, Los Angeles, the beach, and Disneyland.
Last weekend, I got to pr...
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Room Draw
Room draw is upon us. For non-Sagehen readers, this is the process in which students choose their housing situations for the next year. Although Pomona has some pretty attractive (and some really attractive) options to choose from, this process may prove to be a tumultuous one. Despite my senior status, this April will bring my very first room draw, meticulously avoided up to n...
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In Four Years’ Time
Although a large faction of Pomona has migrated South for Spring Break (the intuitive move,) I’ve returned home to Seattle, which has greeted me with rain, hail, thunder, and a thick layer of immobile clouds. (Or, maybe they’re quite mobile, continually replaced by new ones that I can’t differentiate because they’re all opaque and they’re all grey.)
A factor that nearly...
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That Time
With Spring Break looming around the corner (almost ready to leap into my very-open, very-willing arms,) I’m allowing myself one ramble-y post without a specific theme, because my peace of mind may depend on it. This week has welcomed a (perhaps permanent) stint of beautiful weather and blue-blue skies and butterfly and hummingbird sightings. The schoolwork load almost comica...
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Thailand!
I am proud to announce I’ve finally made an elusive summer plan! Over the past few months, I’ve lived vicariously through the Sagehens surrounding me, as acceptance letters trickled into their mailboxes and “Congratulations!” sprinkled their inboxes. Until yesterday, I felt like the lone jobless leper secretly mingling amongst financial interns and language teachers and physi...
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Seal Beach
On The Loose (OTL) is Pomona’s outdoorsy club that helps students access mountains and canyons and deserts and all sorts of other nature-like places. I, admittedly, don’t know a great deal about OTL, because I’ve never joined one of their trips before (and this will become yet another resource I’ll miss when I graduate that I didn’t milk to its full advantage.) That said, I’m...
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Sagehen at a Conference
Joanmarie DelVecchio '15, a PPA-Anthropology major, live-tweeted her experience at the Law at the Fault Lines--Southern California Law and Social Sciences Forum. The focus of the day-long forum was the way law influences and is influenced by "fault lines" between social and political groups.
Live tweeting this law conference per @hollisbrusky 's request. Next up, marginalizat...
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Snack
For our non-Sagehen readers, allow me to explain what Snack means at Pomona. On weeknights, Frary Dining Hall comes alive once more for a free-pseudo-fourth meal. Last night, cake was served, and the night before, it was macaroni and cheese. Last week, baked pretzels, bread pudding, and veggies were provided.
I know this so well because I’ve taken to religiously attending...
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