Off Campus – Page 4

Learning to Love Los Angeles

Posted on November 26, 2019September 21, 2022 by Elias van Emmerick

By Elias van Emmerick ‘21 Pomona’s lack of name recognition is a bit of a running gag at the Claremont Colleges. Students love to joke about how their friends think they go to “Paloma,” “Panama,” or “Pavlova” College. We can point at the Forbes 2015 Best Colleges #1 ranking all we want, but Harvard we are not. Now imagine what “Pomona College” means to a 14-year old Belgi...

Caffeine in Claremont: A Comprehensive Guide

Posted on October 2, 2019September 21, 2022 by Elias van Emmerick

By Elias van Emmerick ‘21 Back when I was young, naive, and blessedly free of endless reading assignments, I believed that college would entail sitting in aesthetically pleasing coffee shops and drinking tasty caffeinated beverages. As it turns out I do spend a good chunk of my time doing exactly that, albeit with a slightly more utilitarian intent than I’d originally expect...

The Claremont Community

Posted on September 11, 2019September 21, 2022 by Daphne Chapline

By Daphne Chapline '22 One rainy Sunday morning, I was walking back to campus from a yoga class at Claremont Yoga when I heard someone yell, “Daphne, wait!” I turned around and saw a staff member of Bert and Rocky’s, an ice cream shop in the Claremont Village. I ran inside the shop, she handed me some pumpkin bread and said “Here, on me!” As I ate my pumpkin bread, I chatted...

Service, Sun and Sagehen Fun

Posted on July 3, 2019September 21, 2022 by Daniel Garcia

By Daniel Garcia '21 There aren’t many colleges that will cover your spring break trip, much less a spring break trip back to the place where you grew up, but Pomona’s Draper Center for Community Partnerships did just that for Spring Break 2019. Through a set of programs called “Alternabreak,” Pomona sent me and nine other students to New Orleans to do community service and ...

Building Friendships with Sweet Treats

Posted on May 29, 2019September 21, 2022 by David Song

By David Song ’20 In the fall semester of 2018, I studied abroad in Hong Kong through Syracuse University and their partnership with the City University of Hong Kong’s SCOPE (School of Continuing and Professional Education) program. Through this program, I spent much of my time with the fellow participants of the Syracuse & SCOPE joint-program: I lived with them in the s...

Metrolink to Amtrak: Time on the Train

Posted on May 2, 2019September 21, 2022 by Becky Zhang

By Becky Zhang ‘22 My first semester at Pomona was unforgettably fun and eye-opening. While my friends and I made ample use of the seven dining halls, five campuses, sunshine, cafés, and thrift stores in Claremont, we occasionally took the Metrolink train into L.A. in search of places and activities to explore outside the 5C bubble. We really made use of the city, a short an...

The 5Cs in Real Life

Posted on April 25, 2019September 21, 2022 by Daniel Garcia

By Daniel Garcia '21 Daniel Garcia answers some of the most common questions about Pomona in relation to the other Claremont Colleges that form a consortium known as “the 5Cs.” How easy is it take classes at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, Scripps, or Harvey Mudd College? It's more than easy to take classes at the other colleges, and the schools promote it. By having fi...

The Spirit of Service

Posted on January 11, 2019September 21, 2022 by Toran Langford

By Toran Langford ’21 Building Leaders on Campus—affectionately known as BLOC—has come far since back on March 29, 2010 a band of four students launched one of the most affective organizations at the Claremont Colleges. BLOC’s founders are Salif Doubare '12, Brian Ssembajjwe '12, Martin Barrera '13, and Corey Jacinto '14. Today, BLOC has grown to more than 50 participatin...

Tech Makes Moves towards Becoming More Diverse

Posted on January 5, 2019September 21, 2022 by Marie Tano

By Marie Tano ‘21 I took Introduction to Computer Science during the spring semester of my first-year. While I was far from skilled in the course, I still had great interest in pursuing the field as a possible career option. The constantly shifting and ever-evolving field of technology has always interested me, and even now I have a goal of being able to somehow add to the t...