After finishing my last final on Monday, which happened to be my only final, I was left at Pomona for about a week longer than I had originally planned. I’m finally at home now.
There are about three spibling left in my hall, who are leaving tomorrow. Blaisedell 2 Back is almost empty. It feels kind of weird.
At any rate, I’ve had a great semester. I really don’t think I can complain much, if at all, about my experience… I’ll just leave a bunch of pictures.
I arrive and find a greeting
My desk in its premature, before-school state, just when I arrived
The first night here when we had no homework, after some presentation in Little Bridges
Here is a view from the bus on the way to Orientation Adventure at June Lake
Setting up our stuff at June Lake for Orientation Adventure
June Lake
“JL” for June Lake with Kacey and Jerry
We are making breakfast
At night, a bear came and ripped Jennifer’s bag because she forgot fruit in there
We had a service project during Orientation where we restored roads
June Lake, Group A, which was obviously the best JL group
The almost-completed project
June Lake OA posing before boarding the bus for a six-hour drive back home
Shani Paul posing with chess pieces after Harvey Mudd’s orientation party “Disorientation”
I am posing with them much more nicely
Long lines form for Scripps’ smoothies
I went to the Salsa Dance with some spiblings
There was a Salsa Dance at Edmunds Ballroom
Spogro dinner at Claremont McKenna’s dining hall, Collins
Spogro dinner at Frary
Here is my AAMP group
During our first meeting, we played games to get to know each other. We are playing Apples to Apples
More games with Ramon, one of our mentors
This is my spogro before our first class registration
Hector Tobar wrote our first-year book, The Barbarian Nurseries. I got a picture with him
I met the other freshman blogger, Sarah, after some orientation event
Scripps had a 5C carnival during orientarion
Friends I made during orientation
Here is Elena with her balloon hat
After I exit my train to get to LA, I end up going through these tracks
Johnny Le is demonstrating Humans versus Zombies. He is a human with a gun.
Humans may use socks to paralyze zombies momentarily
I got to see Taylor Swift perform at Big Bridges
There was a big spider at Scripps that stayed around for a while in a large web
Angela Bi sleeps on the ride home from the AAMP retreat
AAMP mentees excitedly pose at Halona
Spogro at a CLSA barbecue
Grill order forms at Frary
I met up with high-school friends attending Scripps at Pitzer’s turf dinner
Food was everywhere, and students could sign up for club participation
Jay’s Place is kind of like Harvey Mudd’s version of the Coop
Someone left carved pumpkins outside Gibson
White Fort, a music duo from Russia, came to perform at Thatcher. ID groups that dealt with music attended… mine went because we were studying Russian material.
Belinda and Warren after the choir performance
My friend Lea is on the right… after the choir performance
Here is the choir, after their performance
My AAMP group has a final dinner meeting at Collins
There is a rooftop garden on a north-campus hall
The rooftop garden has nice plants growing. Here is a pot of parsnips
There are nice things that decorate some residence halls
Catherine and I explored Pomona hall
Yi poses at the challah stand
The nutritionist left this information at Frank about sugar in drinks
The swinging seat outside Mudd hall needed some repair
Janet is sitting on a swinging chair after we ate at Pitzer for the first time
There was a talk about the presentation of the portrayal of Asian men and sexuality in the media
Tennis was my favorite class. Here we are on our last day
Late-night hot chocolate during finals at The Motley with spiblings and friends from Scripps
My roommate, Marquise, leaving for his flight back to Chicago
My room is messy while I clean and pack to prepare to leave
My room is neat(er than before) and I am ready to leave
I can’t believe I made a spot on this map in the admissions office of accepted people and their hometowns… here I am, representing Ontario, CA
Now that I’m home, it’s time to relax!!!!! I really need that. Also, I need to get ahead in my Shakespeare class. I will be reading plenty of plays (alliteration—I am getting my mind ready).
I will quote Yi Li’s Facebook photo album: “Pomona can’t love u too much ♥ “