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Ten Things to Look Forward to Your First Year at Pomona

Posted on June 30, 2017September 21, 2022 by Jack Buyske

Ten things to look forward to in your first year at Pomona College (in no particular order): by Jack Buyske '18 1. Fountaining What is fountaining, you ask? At some point during your first year, your sponsor group will gently lower you (read: drop you) into one of the many beautiful fountains around campus. This is traditionally done at midnight on one’s birthday, but if y...

10 Things To Do When Visiting Pomona

Posted on March 29, 2017September 21, 2022 by Sam Schreiber

By Sam Kelly ’17 and Feather Flores ’17 We like to think students choose to come to Pomona for the top-tier liberal arts education. It also doesn’t hurt that we are in Southern California, just 35 miles from Los Angeles and near the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. Pomona students have access to a wide variety of recreational activities. From outdoor exploits to u...

Exploring Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: An Education

Posted on April 14, 2016September 21, 2022 by April Xiaoyi Xu

The Museum of Jurassic Technology (MJT) is an eccentric museum that houses objects from various geographical regions across different time periods — including human horns, a scaled model of Noah’s Ark, and mice on toast. Not only is David Wilson’s cabinet of wonder full of items that spark our curiosity to find out more details about its individual marvels, it fundamentally...

A First Year’s Time Capsule

Posted on November 6, 2015September 21, 2022 by Alison Choi

I have officially finished the first half of the semester. My impressions of Pomona are fresh, and I would be lying if I said I felt completely at ease here. Being an international student, living in America is something I’m still not used to. Being at college, my new independence can feel overwhelming at times, and I am not yet sure how I will be able to call Pomona my new ...

5 Weird Things about California, via 5 Weird Things about Boston

Posted on June 19, 2015September 21, 2022 by Michelle Chan

“Weird” is an extremely relative term, especially when 18 years of your life were spent in a single subculture of a single California suburb. This summer, I decided to step outside the normality of perpetual sunshine and for the first time in 12+ years, head to the East Coast. Approximately five minutes after exiting the doors of Logan International Airport, all I could...

Food, Glorious Food

Posted on April 29, 2015September 21, 2022 by Kyra Sanborn

College can be rough. Sometimes balancing academics, internships, clubs, applications, jobs, athletics, and that sliver of a social life is terribly and inconveniently overwhelming. Those activities that once constituted as pleasure become obligations, and stressful ones at that. It is difficult, when in this state of seemingly perpetual stress, to smell the roses. So what can ...

PE… in College?!

Posted on April 27, 2015September 21, 2022 by Teofanny Saragi

An aerial view of Strehle Track and the field where my Ultimate Frisbee class took place!

Before college, my experience with Physical Education (PE) classes was limited to synchronized warm-up exercises, running laps around tracks and fields, and the occasional treat of basketball/flag football/fill-in-the-blank ball. When I began perusing Pomona’s course catalog and general education requirements the summer before my first year, I stumbled upon the PE requiremen...

Southern in Southern California

Posted on April 15, 2015September 21, 2022 by Jeremy Taylor

Regional difference was something I expected to be a challenge when I came to California. I love it here at Pomona College, but even the college recognizes its lack of representation of students from the South. In welcoming the Class of 2018, the admission office celebrates "a particularly strong increase in students from the South [+45%]." Of course, the percentage increased m...