As has been well documented already here on the blog, Sunday was the big 125th anniversary Founder’s Day celebration! Despite the many emails sent out to the student body about the event, I didn’t know exactly what was going to be there for the big shebang. It was quite delightful, then, on Thursday when all of the sudden a carousel was constructed in the middle of the qu...
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Month: October 2012
Founders Day!
Hi! Sorry, I have been MIA for a while now. Getting sick during midterm season is not the best combination. However, I'm back now, and I wanted to write about my experience at Pomona's 125th anniversary.
This is my friend Danielle Davis (Pomona '15) and me enjoying ourselves. There was a carousel! I personally haven't ridden one of those in years. It was great to tempora...
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Journal 2- Founders Day
Ah,
Founders Day, Pomona College's "birthday," an event filled with fun, celebration, lots of older people visiting, a carousel, free stuff, and not me, because I went home to stay with family, as I do every Sunday.
I do admit, though, that I'd really have liked to have gone. I mean, Pomona becomes 125 years old only once, right? People keep posting pictures and quirky Fac...
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Pomona College Circa 1963 – Narrated by Ronald Reagan
Tomorrow, October 14th, Pomona College is celebrating Founders Day. But not only is it the anniversary of the founding of the school I have come to love so much, but it is its 125th anniversary, its quasiquicentennial. (I didn't know that was a word either.) It should be tons of fun with games performances and, most importantly, free food because let's be honest, who doesn't l...
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Journal 1- Prospective Sagehens
Posts titled "Journal" will be sort of stream-of-consciousness things
Today, I had chemistry lab, which lasts from 1:15-5:00pm. We were supposed to continue from out last week's work of "The Chemistry of Five Anions." Thankfully, I was able to get out of the lab room early at about 3:00. I realized that I hadn't gotten lunch because I slept in and had to do my pre-lab in a h...
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General Conference
For those of you who don’t have a lot of contact with Mormons in your life, let me explain. General Conference occurs once every 6 months (the second of this year was last weekend), and my roommate describes it as a weekend when “really smart men talk about everything.”
More specifically, Wikipedia defines it as, “a meeting for all members of the church for conducting ge...
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Ben Shand’s Continued Adventures in Seoul
Here's a photo-update of Ben Shand, '14 and Economics major, and his semester abroad in Korea!
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Avocados Galore!
Something very important to note about me, if you don’t know already, is that I absolutely love avocados. They are pretty much the best thing ever. I have avocado earrings to prove my everlasting devotion (I also really like earrings, but that’s another story). I did a report about avocados in my Spanish 22 class. It’s become a joke in my family that you can’t leave me and ...
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HvZ
This morning marked the start of another round of Humans vs. Zombies. I, like many other freshmen (we make up over half of the game), could be found ducking and dodging around campus trying to avoid confrontation. For anyone who doesn't know about HvZ, it is a simulation of a zombie apocalypse, complete with nerf guns (or socks), missions, and zombies which increase in number a...
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“Jan Et Herr”
Today is Janet Herrera's birthday.
In celebration, my sponsor group ceremoniously fountained her at midnight earlier today in the Thatcher fountain. Unfortunately, I wasn't here to witness it and to take pictures to embarrass her, but life goes on. (more…)
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