Wake up when my alarm goes off at 7:15. Turn it off, go back to sleep, wake up at 8:00. This is pretty typical. Eat breakfast in my room (blueberry muffin and pear), do some miscellaneous work, then head off to class at 9:25.
First class of the day: Introductory Genetics (Bio 040), taught by the wonderful Prof. Moore. The lecture topic: day 2 of bacteriophage and bacterial g...
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Back to School
Escape to the High Sierras
This past weekend, students and faculty of the Geology Department took the opportunity afforded by the pre-midterm lull (let's not talk about how I have three in one day next week) to embark on the annual department trip. We departed early Friday morning for Mineral King (located in Sequoia National Park) and watched out the windows as the urban landscape faded into open farmla...
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Facebook Interactions and Future Blogging
If you follow of this blog, you probably have read my amazing posts. Also, you’re probably pretty cool. Finally, you probably know that I have a thing for pop music.
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Résumé Woes
How is Pomona’s Career Development Office useful to its students?
My résumé should, hypothetically, be the pinnacle of my professional life. Organized into neat subsections about my previous employment endeavors and activities and skills, I have a vision of my ideal résumé pleasantly filling a page without threatening crowdedness. I imagine it with a minimalist design and ...
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A New Year
A new school year is particularly exciting because of its pristine promise. Untouched, it isn’t tarnished with a pile of papers or some looming exam. Instead, I peer at it, somehow distanced, and it is beautiful, comprised of Frary cookies and finished problem sets and warm Claremont nights.
Moments after Labor Day, this portrait is abolished and the school year is clo...
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Getting my Kicks on Route 66!
On August 22nd, I packed my bags after being home for less than two weeks and headed to the Windy City to visit Jonathan Starzyk PO’13, check out the city, and road trip to Claremont! Although Chicago was slightly disappointing at first, the city ultimately surpassed my expectations. We walked along the Magnificent Mile, and I was taken back by the number of floors that Burberr...
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Brief reflections on a transformative summer
I completed my final day at my summer internship last Friday, and by this time Monday I’ll be back in Claremont for two weeks of training with the student Advocates for Survivors of Sexual Assault. I’m sad to say goodbye to Oakland and San Francisco. I’m happy to say hello to Claremont, although as a city it doesn’t quite stack up to what’s going on here (which isn’t to say tha...
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OA
I’m arriving on campus in just eight days! An Orientation Adventure (OA) Leader position is responsible for my early return. I distinctly remember leaving Yosemite as a peppy (and at that point, dirty) first-year, wondering whether I’d ever return to OA again. I hoped so, because I thought it was the best thing in the entire world without exception, and that my life would in...
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The Imminent Future!
Before college, I held steadfastly to the notion that you don’t move up to the next grade until the summer was over. On the last day of fifth grade, my teacher congratulated us on becoming sixth graders and I rolled my eyes (in fact, this teacher noted on my report card I needed to have less “attitude.” At least I was developing a sense of self early on…?) My parents, also p...
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Operation Orientation
The first day of the internship was like the first day of high school for me. I dressed my best hoping to impress people, ate a bowl of cereal, and headed to work.As usual, I was late, so I for sure thought that I wasn't going to impress anyone, but once I got to the building, there were other interns in line waiting to get badges, so I joined the line. Looking back at it, the ...
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