This past Wednesday, the Neuroscience department sponsored a trip to the Getty Center to attend a lecture by Eric Kandel, an Austrian, Nobel Prize-winning neuropsychiatrist. He was there to give a lecture concerning his newly published book The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present, which was incredibly...
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Month: September 2012
Procrastination…I Mean Gap Year
On Friday, Pomona hosted a Gap Year Fair, for those of us who are unsure of what we want to do after graduation (or also for those who know they want to do some kind of cool program after graduation). There were several different kinds of programs there, like Peace Corps, Teach for America, and organizations that set you up with a cool internship or fellowship with the non-pro...
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Help! Organic Chemistry Has Taken Over My Life!
Avid readers of the blog may notice I have been M.I.A this past week. Ask any of my friends or family and they would have the same thoughts. I'm usually the loud bubbly one. The one who lets everyone else know it's time to eat, time to leave, time to dance. But this past week, I couldn't be heard, and I could barely be seen. It wasn't time to do anything but study: My very ...
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Hunting for Scavengers
Last week I posted about a party called “Inception,” hosted by That Saturday Group, or TSG. TSG hosts fun, substance-free events and activities on Saturday nights.
My friend Alex and I got the Facebook invite and saw the flyers for “Scavenger Hunt!” and just had to go. I do Disney scavenger hunts; he’s really good at solving logic problems. We both know Pomona well. We both ...
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There and Back Again: Students’ Tales of Study Abroad
Wednesday evening, the Office of Study Abroad held its Welcome Back dinner for those of us who spent the Spring 2012 semester abroad. This dinner gave us all a chance to chat and share experiences and the like, but it also has been making me think about our readjustment back into Pomona and the U.S. Most of us have had a month or two to get used to being stateside again, but ...
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私は日本語が好きです。
I bet not many people can read the title of this post. It says "I like Japanese" in, of course, Japanese. It amazes me how far I've come in my study.
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Lost
The president of the university’s pony society told me to hop on Bus 15, ride it until I passed the city limit sign, and then to follow a series of walking directions to arrive at a farm to ride for my first time. However, she explained this to me via my prepaid phone, in a thick Scottish accent, and half of her instructions were lost in the ether. (more…)
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Operation Futon
Since my room is quite big this year, I realized I needed some additional furniture to fill it up. Luckily, my cousin is studying abroad in Israel this year so he had a futon just hanging out in my aunt and uncle’s garage that was all mine for the taking. The only problem was getting it here to Pomona… (more…)
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The U.S. Constitution on Walker Wall
Guest post by Joanmarie Del Vecchio '15
I've always been a fan of history, and perhaps coming from Philadelphia and doing debate in high school meant that the Constitution was always special to me. This document written 225 years ago is still essentially governing the most powerful country in the world, and I find that pretty incredible! I wanted to use Walker Wall as a ...
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“FOUNTAIN! FOUNTAIN!”
The clock strikes midnight. I'm sitting studiously in my room, reading Noam Cholmsky's A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior. Suddenly, a raucous cheering outside breaks my concentration. I open the door from my room to our suite's patio, half-expecting to see bro tanks and short skirts heading to Pub. But wait, it's Tuesday. Pub is on Wednesday. That can't be right.
I...
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