Halfway Through College! Sophomore Year Reflections and Summer Plans

It’s that time of the year again: Finals, followed by Commencement (goodbye, seniors, I will miss you…) and SUMMER! I have one more final project to work on, so this is a good time to jolt down some quick reflections on the semester and a few words about my summer plans. This week is atypical of my finals’ weeks at Pomona so far since I don’t have any traditional in-class fi...
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Freshwoman Year Pt. II: A Quick Reflection

’Tis Spring Break! My parents are here, visiting me from China. As we drive around the Golden State from SoCal to NorCal in the next few days, I (rather ambitiously) plan to read a few books, get my homework done, write some more blog entries, and get back to some of my friends (feeling guilty about not maintaing email chains during the busy academic year). A brief summa...
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Amores Perros

For my Spanish class, Advanced Conversation Through Film, we just watched Amores Perros, a complex film by Alejandro González Iñárritu interweaving three different stories connected with a major car crash.  It’s a bit gritty, with lots of blood and violence and no one really gets a happy ending.  But at the same time it was really interesting and a well made film, and it speaks...
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