This past weekend, I took a slight reprise from my usual weekend busyness and went up to Big Sur for a PE class, PE 012: Beginning Backpacking. I highly recommend this PE class; it's an awesome way to get that 0.25 credits for PE, and the only requirements are five class meetings, a day hike and this awesome trip! On top of this, it is a great way to make new friends, as ever...
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Author: Rob
Diver Down
What other time than college is the best to try new things? Well, maybe as a kid, but beside that, none! I took this idea to the max this semester, enrolling in a majority of non-science classes (a first for me) and a boatload of PE classes, one of them being Beginning SCUBA, offered through CMC. Another one was Beginning Backpacking, for which we go on our final exam--a thr...
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Half Man, Half Horse, All Heart
Being a Boston native, there are a lot of things I find really strange about California, especially having been exposed to the Inland Empire for most of my time here. From the crazy amount of traffic to how there could possible be so many different freeways for such a small area--even the popularity of Taco Tuesdays--moving to the West Coast definitely had some culture shocks ...
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The Architecture of Happiness
For anyone that has seen the movie (500) Days of Summer, this title may ring a bell as the book that Tom Hansen gave to Summer Finn as a present for her housewarming party. However, it is also a book by Alain de Botton on the syllabus for EA 20: Nature, Culture and Society that I just recently completed. If you haven't read this book, I'm going to be frank and say it was quit...
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Even the Fish Party Hard at Pomona
Being a neuroscience major, research and lab work is a huge part of my academic workload. Once past the intro neuroscience courses, the upper-level courses expect students to be able to develop and test research hypotheses as a part of the labs. For example, in Neuroscience 110 last semester, also known as Developmental Neurobiology, I worked with zebrafish, or Danio rerio. The...
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Gettin’ it at the Getty
This past Wednesday, the Neuroscience department sponsored a trip to the Getty Center to attend a lecture by Eric Kandel, an Austrian, Nobel Prize-winning neuropsychiatrist. He was there to give a lecture concerning his newly published book The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present, which was incredibly...
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Less Cage, More Rage
So last night in my attempt to find something to do on the 5Cs that didn't involve feigning Catholicism or ramming Coop food down my throat, I stumbled upon an apparent CMC tradition entitled "Rage in the Cage." Although I'm not sure if this was an ADAA-sanctioned event, the format and rules of the tournament seemed quite similar to the movie I'm referencing with the use of AD...
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#OCCUPYSNACK
For anyone that has been on Twitter, Facebook, or for that matter, just been present on the Pomona College campus, you have probably heard some form of complaint about the new and not-so-improved Frary Snack. This is probably salt in the wounds for most people reading this, but for those who haven't been brutally welcomed back by the ghostly semblance of what was once our belo...
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Best Coast for the Next Post
A bit late on this guy, but last week I was definitely on the concert circuit, seeing the Tallest Man on Earth last Wednesday, as I was quick to post about, and then Best Coast, a local male/female duo known for their lo-fi, fuzzy surf pop and their hit song, "Boyfriend," on Thursday night, which I am just now getting to writing about. As a part of some sort of concert series...
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Sensual Acoustic Seduction by Kristian Mattson
So for anyone that was aware, Swedish singer/songwriter Kristian Matsson, who goes by the moniker The Tallest Man on Earth, came through Pomona, California, last night at the Glass House Music Club on West 2nd Street. I myself was not aware that one of my favorite Scandinavians would be in the Golden State this Wednesday until just this past weekend, when I got a text from ...
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