For those of you who don’t have a lot of contact with Mormons in your life, let me explain. General Conference occurs once every 6 months (the second of this year was last weekend), and my roommate describes it as a weekend when “really smart men talk about everything.”
More specifically, Wikipedia defines it as, “a meeting for all members of the church for conducting ge...
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Author: snl017
My Identity Crisis
My friend said she had an identity crisis this summer when she realized how many pairs of pants she had come to own.
Our other friend judged her crisis to equal the ridiculousness of my own.
I beg to differ. (more…)
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The Hunger Games: Pomona
Once again, I find myself wanting to go to all the events put on by groups at the 5Cs. My original plan for last night was to attend a screening of The Dark Side of Chocolate hosted by the Environmental Analysis (EA) department so that when I tell people I don’t like chocolate, I would have an arsenal of reasons of why chocolate is bad, not just to my taste buds, but for the en...
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Un-Schooling
I’m constantly inundated by flyers, emails, and table tents telling me to go to one talk or another. I wish I could attend all of them. But then, I wouldn’t have time for social events and school work and jobs. Still, I try to make it to as many as possible, even if I should conceivably be working on something else.
So, even though I had a Computer Science assignment due the...
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Hunting for Scavengers
Last week I posted about a party called “Inception,” hosted by That Saturday Group, or TSG. TSG hosts fun, substance-free events and activities on Saturday nights.
My friend Alex and I got the Facebook invite and saw the flyers for “Scavenger Hunt!” and just had to go. I do Disney scavenger hunts; he’s really good at solving logic problems. We both know Pomona well. We both ...
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“FOUNTAIN! FOUNTAIN!”
The clock strikes midnight. I'm sitting studiously in my room, reading Noam Cholmsky's A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior. Suddenly, a raucous cheering outside breaks my concentration. I open the door from my room to our suite's patio, half-expecting to see bro tanks and short skirts heading to Pub. But wait, it's Tuesday. Pub is on Wednesday. That can't be right.
I...
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Free Tacos and Dancing with the Dean
All the Claremont Colleges enact a “substance-free opening” policy, meaning that any substance use by any students on the campuses will absolutely NOT be tolerated (even by those legally of age). Administration enacts this because studies have shown that a large number of sexual assaults happen during the first two weeks of the semester, and a high percentage of them involve su...
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Temporary tattoos?!?
The SCC Fall kick-off and Coop Store Grand Re-opening happened on Friday night. They had prizes to win from the coop store (I got a free shirt!), cookies from the coop fountain, kettle corn, music from KSPC DJs, bouncy houses, and tastes of new healthy drinks for sale. But the best part? Temporary tattoos.
Seriously, we are all in college, but we are all still very much ...
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Last Friday Night
You might be expecting that we post about the first week of school. I guess that’s important. But, in order to reflect upon my first week here, I’m going to take you back to last Friday night. Let’s hope I remember mine better than Katy Perry. (more…)
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…rain?
I'm sitting in my dorm room, door open to my suite's patio, reading my first assignment of sophomore year, when I hear a peculiar noise. I thought maybe it was the rocks that trap heat making some weird crackling noise. So, I step outside, and find rain. To my surprise, drops pattern the stones.
Earlier this morning, I saw clouds in the sky, and concluded with my roommate th...
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