The results are in! As you all (hopefully) know, Obama won his second term in office yesterday. What you may not have known is that Obama’s reelection marks only the second time in U.S. history that three consecutive presidents have gotten a second term, a seemingly normal occurrence that actually hasn’t happened since Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. This fun fact was pointe...
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Author: Jenessa
Election Day 2012
It’s Election Day 2012! It all comes down to today. After months of commercials and campaigning, and weekends full of canvassing for my Environmental Justice class, today is the day! By tonight the next president will be decided, along with various other positions and, for those of us Californians at least, a multitude of propositions. Throughout this whole process, though,...
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Happy Halloween!
Today is October 31st. For the rest of the world, that means Halloween. But for most of us in college, it just means Wednesday; Halloween was all celebrated over the weekend with Harwood Halloween and parties and all that, back when we had a couple hours to spare. It’s always funny to think how for us Halloween is “over” several days before it actually occurs. B...
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Halfway There!
Since Fall Break is done, that means we’re at the midway point in the semester. In other words, whoaaa, we’re halfway there! (whoaaaa, livin’ on a prayer!) In honor of this momentous occasion, I asked people what they had to say with the following prompt: It’s halfway through the semester (!) and/yet/but _______.
Here are some responses: (more…)
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Reflections on Fall Break
They say insanity is doing the same thing more than once and expecting different results. I don’t usually think of myself as insane, but here I am at the end of yet another Fall Break in which I didn’t get done nearly as much as I thought I would. Some things I was supposed to do: make progress on thesis—um, well, I went to the library and now have a huge stack of books to rea...
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Fall Break Fun Fact
As we are all enjoying our Fall Breaks, either at home, on campus, or somewhere else exciting, it’s interesting to think the concept of Fall Break (so meta). Yesterday at dinner I had a conversation with friend and fellow senior Ben De Winkle, who explained that one of his professors told them at math lunch about the origins of Fall Break. Apparently, Pomona used to be on a d...
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Volunteering Around Claremont
Freshman year I started volunteering with LINC, a program through the Draper Center designed to help elementary school kids improve their reading skills. I never imagined myself going into education or teaching, but the more I hear about issues with our education system and how so many kids are disadvantaged for various reasons, the more active I tend to want to become in thes...
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Founder’s Day: Marston Quad Gets a Makeover
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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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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Making the Most of it
At the beginning of the year I challenged myself to make the most of my senior year, to enjoy as much of what Claremont and LA had to offer as possible, and generally live beyond and outside of schoolwork. I think to a certain extent I have been successful, perhaps to the detriment of said schoolwork and most definitely to the detriment of making substantial progress on my the...
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