While I have yet to officially decide my future career path, I have been leaning more and more towards becoming a neuroscience professor. I've known for a long time that I enjoy teaching others, but it wasn't until I came to Pomona that I realized teaching neuroscience was something I could really see myself making a career out of. When the opportunity came up to become a gen...
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Month: March 2013
Geena Davis
In honor of International Women's Day, I thought it was appropriate to dedicate this post to the talk on the portrayal of women in the media I went to last night. Scripps College hosted Academy Award winning actor Geena Davis, who spoke about her experiences in the industry, the research of her institute (the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media), and the current state of g...
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Thailand!
I am proud to announce I’ve finally made an elusive summer plan! Over the past few months, I’ve lived vicariously through the Sagehens surrounding me, as acceptance letters trickled into their mailboxes and “Congratulations!” sprinkled their inboxes. Until yesterday, I felt like the lone jobless leper secretly mingling amongst financial interns and language teachers and physi...
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The Shakedown!
As you may have read in my post about the recent Organic Dinner, ever since my freshman year when Pitzer’s Shakedown Café catered that first organic dinner it has been a goal to go eat at the Shakedown. It’s not really that daunting of a goal, I suppose, but somehow my friends and I never managed to get there. We tried to go for my birthday, but it’s right at the beginnin...
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Seal Beach
On The Loose (OTL) is Pomona’s outdoorsy club that helps students access mountains and canyons and deserts and all sorts of other nature-like places. I, admittedly, don’t know a great deal about OTL, because I’ve never joined one of their trips before (and this will become yet another resource I’ll miss when I graduate that I didn’t milk to its full advantage.) That said, I’m...
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So…I Guess I’m Graduating?
I remember pretty clearly that day three and a half years ago when I first came to Pomona. We managed to fit everything into my parents’ minivan somehow and drove the hour out to Claremont from home. I met my sponsor group, my then six-year-old brother dragged my brand new roommate all around, and we ran down College with the Pomona mascot. Back in August 2009, “Class of...
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Smiley ’80s!
Last night, the Pomona Events Committee hosted the Smiley '80s dance in the Edmunds Ballroom. Let me preface this post by saying how I unabashedly love '80s music. I'm pretty sure I was born in the wrong decade. So I was obviously very excited when I got a Facebook invitation to PEC: Smiley '80s. (more…)
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A Typical Meal at the Dining Halls
Meals at Pomona are some of my favorite parts of the day. In fact, it's not rare for me to plan out my next meal before I even leave the dining hall from the previous one. I thought I'd outline a typical meal time since some of my fondest memories at Pomona have taken place within the walls of the dining halls.
Step 1: Swipe in. Not a big deal five days out of the week, b...
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Law at the Fault Lines Conference
Yesterday, I went to the Law at the Fault Lines conference (which was live tweeted) that was held in the Frank Blue Room. Unfortunately, I was not able to stay for very long, but I did manage to catch the Gender and the Law panel. My personal favorite presentation was by Rebecca Hamlin (Political Science, Grinnell) titled Asylum for Women: Reading Gender into the Refugee Defini...
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Sagehen at a Conference
Joanmarie DelVecchio '15, a PPA-Anthropology major, live-tweeted her experience at the Law at the Fault Lines--Southern California Law and Social Sciences Forum. The focus of the day-long forum was the way law influences and is influenced by "fault lines" between social and political groups.
Live tweeting this law conference per @hollisbrusky 's request. Next up, marginalizat...
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