Internships – Voices

Life as a Virtual Admissions Summer Fellow

Posted on September 15, 2020September 11, 2020 by Chris Meng

By Chris Meng ’23 Dear Christopher, It is with great pleasure that we invite you to join the Office of Admissions at Pomona College as a Virtual Summer Fellow. All the way back in May, I accepted an offer to work with admissions this summer. I feel incredibly fortunate that I was able to find a paid position that I was excited about pursuing. I literally didn’t know...

Why I Like a Semester System

Posted on August 18, 2020August 24, 2020 by Danny DeBare

By Danny DeBare ‘22 When looking for a college that fits well, many prospective students choose to focus on specific fields of study. After all, we are talking about college, a place you go to study a subject matter. When deciphering what size and style of university (liberal arts, research university, vocational school, community college, etc.) fits best with a desired area...

Help! I’m 20 Years Old And I’ve Never Had An Internship

Posted on June 29, 2020 by Stevie Matheny

By Stevie Matheny ‘22 My Jobs Up Until This Point Steam the milk. Cue the shots. Pump the syrup. Catch the shots. Pour the milk. Serve the coffee. Repeat. This has been my work experience for the past three years, and, honestly, I’ve LOVED it. It’s clear-cut, it’s relational, and it’s a service to others. But at the end of the day, my desire...

Do You Know What You’re Doing This Summer?

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Daphne Chapline

By Daphne Chapline '22 *Note: This was written before the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic upset many students' summer plans. “Got any big plans for the summer?” is a question often asked of college students toward the end of the year. Last year, when I was asked, I would answer, “I’m interning at a pharmaceutical company in Boston—I’m very excited.” This was all true, but w...

Tips About Financial Aid

Posted on March 27, 2019March 27, 2019 by Kensi Martinez

By Kensi Martinez ‘21 Before coming to Pomona, I attended a highly competitive public high school in Los Angeles, where I learned to strive for top grades. Once I started classes at Pomona though, I was surprised to discover that a collaborative learning process—working together on class projects and studying with my classmates—was the norm here. Having gone through the p...

A Summer in the Land of the Midnight Sun

Posted on December 6, 2018 by Sarah Binau

By Sarah Binau ‘19 It’s July 1st, and I’m on an Alaska Airlines jet headed to Bethel, Alaska, to work for the town’s Cultural Center and live with a Pomona friend. I land on Bethel’s only runway in a 50-degree drizzling rain. “Remote” and “rural” begin to take on new meanings. The town of 6,000 has one main road (warped by the melting permafrost below), a gallon of orange ju...

Competence, Confidence and Creativity

Posted on March 19, 2018April 17, 2018 by Sophia Sun

By Sophia Sun '18 As a senior who has strived to fully engage intellectually and socially in the opportunities that Pomona College offers, I’ve realized that the heart of the liberal arts education is not anti pre-professionalism; rather the heart of the liberal arts education involves being self-reflective, throughout the process of learning, about how you can extract trans...

Three Places, Three Projects: A Research-Filled Summer

Posted on September 6, 2016September 2, 2016 by April Xiaoyi Xu

A crew of businessmen and businesswomen all dressed in black and white, confidently prancing their way down the Mid-Level Escalators while their clones emerge from various corners of the street, including the ‘underground’. A sunlit sandy beach, mysterious societies of men who pledge their allegiance to the glorious local gastronomic scene, a surreal land where imagina...

Dear Internship Coordinator: The Untold Truths of My Cover Letter

Posted on April 29, 2016April 27, 2016 by Kyra Sanborn

Kyra Sanborn 4 Privet Drive Little Whinging, Surrey - 95864 - 916.867.5309 GrownUpButBoringAndUnoriginalEmail@nonotcalpolypomona.edu Some date that makes it look like I haven't been working on this cover letter for 3 weeks, 2016 Big Giant Company 4700 If Only Rd, I Wonder if Oprah Lived Here Once, CA 99999 Dear Internship Coord...

Jobs on Campus

Posted on December 2, 2015December 2, 2015 by Madeleine Colvin

As a college senior, I have been thinking a lot about jobs. Real jobs. Work. Employment. A career. However you put it, it's anxiety-inducing and terrifying and something I get asked about way more often than I'd like. Post-graduation job plans are a topic I want to avoid talking about 99% of the time. Including now. So instead of talking about so-called real, nine-to-five, I'm-...