So, I figure that Thesis Thursday is going to be my new blogging platform, at least for a little bit. I hope you all enjoy my thesis related adventures! Whether you're a senior, a first year, an alum or outside of the direct Pomona community, I hope people find my anecdotes at least marginally humorous or relatable.
Getting participants for a study is something I never thoug...
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Senior Experience
Thesis Thursday!
So right now, I'm sitting in the Coop Fountain, attempting to work on the pre-write of my first chapter of my thesis. Scary stuff, right? I've heard it said before that the literature review of any thesis is the most difficult yet fulfilling part of the work: effectively establishing your arguments and your thoughts on paper through establishing a theoretical framework and a fo...
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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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Brief reflections on a transformative summer
I completed my final day at my summer internship last Friday, and by this time Monday I’ll be back in Claremont for two weeks of training with the student Advocates for Survivors of Sexual Assault. I’m sad to say goodbye to Oakland and San Francisco. I’m happy to say hello to Claremont, although as a city it doesn’t quite stack up to what’s going on here (which isn’t to say tha...
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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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Where are the lawyers?
When I explain how the organization helps clients defend their housing rights, the first question I hear in response is oftentimes, “Do you have lawyers in the clinic?” We do not! For those unfamiliar with the approach that we use, the next question might be, “Why not?” or “How do you accomplish anything, then?” The counselors in the clinic are trained in San Francisco tena...
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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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Inside City Hall
My two main responsibilities at the office are staffing the reception desk and doing clinic projects. On the atypical days, I get to accompany the organizers out of the office to various events and actions. While I find most all of the work here exciting, these outings are the most extraordinary and have been the most memorable parts of my summer. About a month ago, I accompani...
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Summer, School Year – What’s the Difference?
Hello there! My name is Lindsey, and I am a senior Neuroscience major and Linguistics minor. I haven’t posted on the blog yet – I had to send my laptop in for repairs a few weeks ago, and after receiving it yesterday I have finally regained sanity (as is the life of a college student). This summer, I am doing research through SURP funding about language processing and the effec...
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