Over the summer, I decided I was going to try something new once I got to college, so when a link to the KASA Freshman Hip-Hop Team was posted on Facebook, I joined the team with absolutely no dance experience. Tonight was our second practice and we had a guest instructor. So in my second ever hip-hop practice, I was learning from a JabbaWockee. For those of you who may not kno...
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Month: September 2012
Dinner with Feldblum
Today, Blaisdell 2 Back had dinner with Dean Feldblum, along with some other professors who joined in on the fun. (more…)
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Less Cage, More Rage
So last night in my attempt to find something to do on the 5Cs that didn't involve feigning Catholicism or ramming Coop food down my throat, I stumbled upon an apparent CMC tradition entitled "Rage in the Cage." Although I'm not sure if this was an ADAA-sanctioned event, the format and rules of the tournament seemed quite similar to the movie I'm referencing with the use of AD...
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Mudd Saturday Night Dinner
The best way to differentiate between a routine and a tradition is that a tradition is something that doesn't falter under any circumstances. Traditions are not things that stop for a while, then start back up; or things that you do when it it is convenient. No. Once traditions form, they are here to stay. One of my favorite traditions last year with my sponsor group was go...
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#OCCUPYSNACK
For anyone that has been on Twitter, Facebook, or for that matter, just been present on the Pomona College campus, you have probably heard some form of complaint about the new and not-so-improved Frary Snack. This is probably salt in the wounds for most people reading this, but for those who haven't been brutally welcomed back by the ghostly semblance of what was once our belo...
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A Very Different TNC
In case you were wondering what seniors get up to when they don’t have class on Fridays, some of us at least participate in TNC. No, not the crazy party at CMC, but rather, as one friend dubbed it, Thursday Night Coloring. Yes, my friends and I spent last night having a coloring party, a tradition we carry on from our sponsor and our freshmen days.
If you think that’s lame...
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Free Tacos and Dancing with the Dean
All the Claremont Colleges enact a “substance-free opening” policy, meaning that any substance use by any students on the campuses will absolutely NOT be tolerated (even by those legally of age). Administration enacts this because studies have shown that a large number of sexual assaults happen during the first two weeks of the semester, and a high percentage of them involve su...
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Settling In
Although I planned to make a list, I found myself at the grocery store (for the second time) alone and without any tangible guide to indicate what I forgot to buy on yesterday’s run. The prices, in Pounds, looked deceptively cheap at first glance, and I kept blocking the narrow aisles while I stalled for mental (and inaccurate) conversions. I left, inexplicably, with four heav...
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Not a Fan of the Heat
For those of us in Claremont right now, we cannot wait for the weather to start to cool down. It has been in the high 90's or even triple digits all week, and for the lucky ones who live on the third floor with no air conditioning (read: me), the heat can be beyond frustrating, let alone debilitating. To most of my friends, I am known as the klutz. Always tripping over my ow...
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Return to the Classics
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m in the Pomona College Orchestra. Last night was our first rehearsal of the year, which was really quite exciting, (no, really, it was!) because orchestra here at Pomona is always a good time. (more…)
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