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My First Year at Pomona: Seven Things I’m Grateful For

Posted on July 31, 2019September 21, 2022 by Becky Zhang

By Becky Zhang ‘22 A few days ago, my best friend (who took Intro to Psychology and had many a fun fact to share with me throughout the semester) shared that gratitude was an effective remedy for all sorts of maladies. She dropped some statistics on the scientifically-proven benefits of practicing gratitude: an extra half-hour of sleep, and so on. Whether or not th...

Good Weather Is a Good Basis for Making Your College Decision

Posted on May 8, 2019September 21, 2022 by Sarah Binau

By Sarah Binau '19 My personal weather-related nightmare: feeling my snot freeze into icy boogers inside my nose in the 7 a.m. darkness as I unsuccessfully scrape an inch of ice from the windshield of the car with my icicle fingers, exhaust fumes adding to the gray sky’s clouds, wondering how far away June is. Except this isn’t a nightmare; it was my reality growing up in th...

Metrolink to Amtrak: Time on the Train

Posted on May 2, 2019September 21, 2022 by Becky Zhang

By Becky Zhang ‘22 My first semester at Pomona was unforgettably fun and eye-opening. While my friends and I made ample use of the seven dining halls, five campuses, sunshine, cafés, and thrift stores in Claremont, we occasionally took the Metrolink train into L.A. in search of places and activities to explore outside the 5C bubble. We really made use of the city, a short an...

Feeding Body and Soul

Posted on September 7, 2018September 21, 2022 by Sarah Binau

By Sarah Binau ‘19 As I look forward to my fourth and final year at Pomona, I realize how many wonderful, invigorating, and often strange adventures Los Angeles and its neighbors have offered me these past three years. I have been fed—literally and figuratively—in more ways than I can count. Here is a brief, by no means exhaustive, list of ways I’ve kept my body and soul ful...

City of Angels Traffic

Posted on June 20, 2018September 21, 2022 by Sarah Binau

By Sarah Binau '19 Pomona loves to tell prospective students that it offers the best of both worlds: a tight-knit, small-campus liberal arts college, just a stone’s through from one of the US’s biggest metropolitan areas. Los Angeles is a sprawl of a city that includes beaches, high-rises, famous media sites, towering mountains, and an arid desert climate. From tacos to the ...

Advice to Potential Pomona-ers

Posted on April 11, 2018September 21, 2022 by Arianna Chen

By Arianna Chen '19 Great! You’ve started your college search/gotten into Pomona (among other schools), and you’re trying to decide which college is right for you—congrats! As a soon-to-be senior and the host of numerous prospies, I’d like to think that my wealth of experience and reflections during my 3 years here qualify me to give you advice for choosing the right college...

For Prospective Students of Color

Posted on October 31, 2017September 21, 2022 by Toran Langford

By Toran Langford ’21 First of all, no college has the perfect recipe for racial/ethnic relations. But, at the Claremont Colleges, there are support systems for students of the African Diaspora. Specifically, in my experience, the administration is happy to make adaptations to accommodate concerns. In regards to race-based concerns, Pomona has promised to increase mental hea...

Community Engagement … More Than an Adventure

Posted on October 24, 2017September 21, 2022 by Toran Langford

by Toran Langford '21 Just about two months ago, I left my urban home of New Orleans for the suburban community of Claremont. Upon arrival at Pomona College, I was shocked to discover that students had a drastically different mindset than where I came from. How was this possible? Is California really as liberal and progressive as the news told me? Ironically enough, just ...

Getting Out of Claremont

Posted on August 2, 2017September 21, 2022 by Mo Dyson

By Mo Dyson '19 In honor of the first Fourth of July weekend that I’ve spent in Southern California, I decided to write about the amazing versatility of Pomona’s location. For the past five weeks working in the Office of Admissions, I’ve been giving daily campus tours to scads of campus visitors, and some of my favorite stories to share are about all of the types of outdoor ...