I am AMAZED at the difference a 3-day weekend can make.
As a student, and particularly as a humanities student, I always had three-day weekends, and it never seemed like a real “holiday” to just get one extra day off of a work week. Boy, was I wrong! Having Friday off for the 4th of July this week was such a blessing! Really felt like I had an extra week of vacation after a ...
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Unsettled Spectatorship
Over my last few posts, a still-developing preoccupation of mine has, without my go-ahead, disclosed itself: how can one characterize and illustrate the statistically-anonymized Pomona student? Without tripping into generalities and abstractions, is it even possible to depict the real flesh, blood, and bones of a student body instead of mechanically regurgitating the brochure-f...
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From Sea to Shining Lake
In order to survive…you try to recreate, as well as you can, your normality, some sense of things continuing.
Whenever I’m reading, if there is a sentence or paragraph that resonates with me in particular, I put the book aside and start reflecting upon it. Such was the experience when I reached the above sentence in Jeanne Wakatsuki’s A Farewell to Manzanar for ID1 reading. I ...
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When Thought Becomes Spectacle
In the practice of creative instruction - a practice, I might add, that glaringly evinces its own oxymoronic futility - there is common injunction: do not write/film/illustrate/compose/create anything about the "creative process" itself. In most cases, this is because such a "creation" would avow, without ambiguity, the frailty or non-existence of your imagination; writing abou...
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Ballet at The Met
Coming from Claremont almost directly to New York City made for some serious culture shock. In contrast to the peaceful and spacious isles of Trader Joes on Foothill Boulevard, the Whole Foods in Union square where I do most of my grocery shopping is nothing short of a traumatic experience. The first time I entered the store I stood in the corner wide-eyed for a good five m...
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Ode to Taco Tuesday
There are many perks to sticking around campus after graduation. Abandoned furniture post-move out, continued printing access, and the air conditioned Smith Campus Center Living Room rank high on the list, but none can compare to my return to Taco Tuesday at Frank.
The esteemed Taco Tuesday was not always on my radar as a student. Rather, much like my Southern heritage, ...
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Gearing Up in Admissions
First week with actual student interviews in the Admissions office! The first two weeks of our summer was dedicated to training and getting a feel for the admissions process as a whole, but now we get to sink our teeth into the real meat of the job: talking to prospective students. This part of the job is confidential, for obvious reasons, but I think it’s safe to say that the ...
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Articulate Experience
Despite what some hyper-literate humanities majors may claim – those, specifically, who use books-within-books to keep their pages marked – we all have limited vocabularies. Severely limited, I may even venture to say. Instead of the bottomless reservoirs we think we have, there is but a trickle of language available to us or, maybe, if one is peculiarly lettered, a puddle. Som...
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District of Humidity (Round Two)
Hello Sagehens! If you're reading this and are a current or recent grad student, congrats; you survived your freshmen/sophomore/junior/senior year! If you're an alum, thank you for hosting me in San Francisco during spring break for Pomona's Alternabreak, single-handedly making college affordable for me, and reading yet another summer intern's blog.
Sophomore year is finally...
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Week One in the City That Never Sleeps
Jumping in to full days of dancing while acclimating to the bustle of NYC really makes a week fly by. I’m trying to savor every moment. My first week at the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive began with placement classes and orientation. We were lectured by a dietician about the importance of hydration and eating enough (but not too much) protein. The speaker stressed...
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