Author: Feather Flores

California Appreciation, via Summer in New York City

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I love New York. I realized this after I returned from visiting a friend in D.C. and was hit by an intense wave of comfort and relief upon stepping off my bus and into the familiar Manhattan streets. This city has managed to worm its way into my heart. I love so many things about it. From the museums to the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park to the efficient public transpor...
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The Publishing Saga, or What I Do

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"So... What exactly do you do?" I have been asked this question so many times in the past nearly-two months, but I still have yet to come up with an eloquent, concise, comprehensive answer. People are usually looking for no more than a 30-second response to this question, but I still haven't found an explanation short enough, aside from "Everything, honestly," or "Um, editor...
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Welcome to New York

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As of approximately 6:45 pm EST today, I will have survived being in New York for a full week. Honestly, I have no idea (1) how everything that's happened / that I've done in the past seven days has encompassed only seven days, or (2) how I ended up here in general. No, really. I have no idea how any of it actually happened, and at this point I've pretty much given up tryin...
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How to ‘Human Being’: The 7 Most Important Things I Learned This Year

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I am halfway done with college. Yikes. I have no idea how that happened so quickly. It's so strange to think back to August-2013-me, so excited and sure of herself and full of (largely unrealistic) expectations about Pomona, college, life in general. She is so different from August-2014-me, arriving on campus early for sponsor training, equal parts anticipiatory and appr...
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Guest Post: Sagehens Shut Up and Dance Around Europe!

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"Because if you're going to be a tourist for five weeks, you might as well be as ridiculous as possible." Video and concept by Sarah Laws '16, featuring cameos by: Andrea Green '17, Angela Han '16, David Kolin '16, Edmund Pacleb '16, Erick Velasquez '16, Jennifer Schmidt '14, Reid Mitchell '16, and Yuki Numata '16. Reproduced with enthusiastic consent. To learn more about...
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What Pomona Isn’t

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Pomona is an incredible institution, so it makes sense that so much of what you hear about it is positive. If you like to measure the worth of things in rankings, we're #8 on the Forbes national list, #5 on the U.S. News & World Report liberal arts college list, #20 on The Daily Beast's list (#1 and #7 on the "Student Life" and "Campus Quality" sublistings, respectively), a...
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Forward Motion

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In less than two weeks, my first year at Pomona will be over. A year ago, I was nowhere close to done with the school year: AP tests were approaching (and way too quickly). There were senior award ceremonies and breakfasts and graduation rehearsals to attend, enrollment deposits and housing forms needing completion, scholarships needing securing, yearbooks needing signing, ...
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Anatomy of a Sponsor Group

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Decision day has come and gone, and now that colleges across the nation have chosen their admitted students, it's time for the critical second round of decisions to be made by the students themselves. Last February, when I was added to the class of 2017 Facebook group, none of the admitted students who would become this year's Pomona freshmen had any decisions to make. We we...
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Reading on Rainy Days: How to Know You’re in the Right Major

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Because I've lived all my life in Southern California, where life moves quickly in perpetual forward motion, rainy days feel like free passes to me. Waking up on a day where the sky is gray and the air feels slow and thick with rain makes me feel like everything that was so important yesterday can wait to be accomplished when the sun comes out again. On rainy days, all I wa...
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