Recently, I have been musing on the admittedly hackneyed concept of “home,” both alone and with my Pomona peers. Growing up in a close nuclear family with strong Northern California roots, I was, until recently, able to reduce “home,” in all of its abstract incarnations, to a place, a town, a block of 1920s track houses with too-narrow driveways and small patches of lawn.
I ...
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Clubs
Justin’s (Unofficial) Tour of Pomona College: Introductions
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Pomona College. My name is Justin Gutzwa, and I'm a rising senior at Pomona. I'm originally from Las Vegas, Nevada, and I am an Anthropology major with a minor in Politics. When I'm not giving tours, I'm a senior interviewer in the Pomona Office of Admissions over the summer, an intern during the school year, involved in several clubs, a depart...
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A Performance-ful Weekend
As we near the end of the year, all sorts of things are coming to a close. Final papers, last assignments, concerts--all chances to put all the year's hard work on display in various capacities. For me this means a plethora of performances, many of which happened this past weekend. This made the weekend a bit crazy, but also a whirlwind of fun. I guess I like being busy...
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My Favorite Chords are Kosher
So, it’s currently the week before Spring Break. For many people this is equivalent to papers to write and midterms to be taken, but for me this is a pretty light week. Two of my classes have been cancelled, I don’t have orchestra tomorrow, my weekly Environmental Education lesson is set to go…the only problem I have right now is motivating myself to get cracking on all t...
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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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A Day in the Life
Daniel Choi, '15, live-tweeted his Monday at Pomona!
Gotta love waking up and walking to Pitzer for class first thing in the morning. Not the best decision in hindsight. #justkidding #woopitzer— Daniel (@daniel_choi) February 4, 2013
Watching a silent film in my MS class: "I feel so low, old chap, that I could get on stilts and walk under a dachshund." — Daniel (@daniel_cho...
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Seven Notes About Attending a Large University
(Inspired by a semester at a Scottish school with ~30,000 students.)
1) Yesterday, I walked past my lecturer in the hall. I smiled and waved as she looked straight ahead. I remembered, after she passed, that I am one of two hundred of her students, and she doesn’t know who I am.
2) My upper-division courses are surprisingly intimate, and even my larger classes have small-...
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My Last SCAMFest
Though we’ve already heard about SCAMFest from Lauren I wanted post about it as well from an insider’s perspective—since this was my very last SCAMFest! I’ve been in Kosher Chords since my freshman year and we always have fantabulous time. SCAMFest is only one part of what makes my a cappella experience so magical, though it is pretty special with the matching outfits, th...
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SCAMFest!
Last night, the Claremont Shades hosted the 17th annual Southern California A Cappella Music Festival (SCAMFest) at Bridges Auditorium. Not only did it feature performances from eight 5-C A Cappella groups, but also from two groups from UCLA, "Bruin Harmony" and "Scattertones" as well as two from USC , "Reverse Osmosis" and "SoCal VoCals".
The performers sang to a sold out B...
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Half Man, Half Horse, All Heart
Being a Boston native, there are a lot of things I find really strange about California, especially having been exposed to the Inland Empire for most of my time here. From the crazy amount of traffic to how there could possible be so many different freeways for such a small area--even the popularity of Taco Tuesdays--moving to the West Coast definitely had some culture shocks ...
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