Reflection – Page 6

What You Need to Know About Deferral/Rejection

Posted on December 4, 2019September 21, 2022 by Daphne Chapline

By Daphne Chapline '22 I knew I wanted to go to Pomona almost immediately after arriving on campus for my first visit. Something about it just felt right; all the students I talked to were so kind, helpful, and extremely willing to talk about their passions on and off campus. I was drawn to the idea of small class sizes and close professor relationships, the collaborative st...

What is Culture?

Posted on October 30, 2019September 21, 2022 by Myles Ashitey

By Myles Ashitey ‘22 Whether I choose to acknowledge it or not, Ghanaian culture has permeated every aspect of my life. Through Sunday services, extravagant birthday celebrations, and even more extravagant wedding ceremonies, I’ve found a community of people eager to embrace the traditions that have lasted for generations. I can’t lie. It’s comforting having people with simi...

From Foreigner to Foreigner: Los Angeles to Seoul

Posted on October 16, 2019September 21, 2022 by Kensi Martinez

By Kensi Martinez '21 Anyone who knows me can attest to my avid love for Quora, a question-and-answer website where you can find people from the likes of regular high school students to Barack Obama himself. I can spend anywhere from one to eight hours on the site daily, learning personal opinions, facts, and news—and sometimes writing them myself as the fourth-most viewed w...

The 47 Bond

Posted on September 15, 2019September 21, 2022 by Danny DeBare

By Danny DeBare ‘22 In case you haven’t figured it out yet, Pomona College is OBSESSED with the number 47. Why? Beats me. If you go to the Wikipedia page and listen to donor speeches, you might find “a reason,” but don’t believe it’s worthy of every advertisement campaign and piece of apparel this college promotes. But, whether I like it or not, this prime number reminds me ...

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...

Questions I Wish People Asked Me on Tours

Posted on August 14, 2019September 21, 2022 by Danny DeBare

By Danny DeBare ‘22 Giving a tour can be really fun. When you have a group that isn’t too big–but just big enough to have a wide variety of interests and perspectives– that’s when the best energy and information flow. On the flip side, sometimes my tours resembles an audio guide, a voice in your ears that sort of just talks at you when meandering through a vaguely historical...

My First Year at Pomona: Seven Things I’m Grateful For

Posted on July 31, 2019September 21, 2022 by Becky Zhang

By Becky Zhang ‘22 A few days ago, my best friend (who took Intro to Psychology and had many a fun fact to share with me throughout the semester) shared that gratitude was an effective remedy for all sorts of maladies. She dropped some statistics on the scientifically-proven benefits of practicing gratitude: an extra half-hour of sleep, and so on. Whether or not th...

Oh, . . . So You’re an Only Child?

Posted on July 24, 2019September 21, 2022 by Cogie Celzo

By Cogie Celzo ‘22 “… How about you, Cogie? Do you have any siblings?” “No, actually, I’m an only child.” “Reaaallyyy?! You don’t strike me as one!” There is a certain mystique surrounding only children and the ways in which we perceive ourselves versus how others do. The psychology behind how only children are raised is fascinating, indeed, but after having gone th...

What It Means To Be More Than a Name

Posted on July 17, 2019September 21, 2022 by Magali Ngouabou

Magali in front of sign about being yourself

By Magali Ngouabou ‘22 The American government knows me as Magali Astride Cyrielle Leslie Ngouabou Noubissi. The first four are all my first names, and the last one is supposed to be my middle name, but the guy at the social security office (who was somehow in charge of typing out the name I’d have to live with) messed up. As a result, I now have to squeeze even more of my n...

Small-Town Roots and the Whirlwind of Disaster

Posted on July 9, 2019September 21, 2022 by Calder Hollond

By Calder Hollond ‘21 When I was a young child, my mom taught me my address, one of the first pieces of information I ever memorized. If you put this address into a GPS, it would lead you to an old farmstead in the countryside in Linwood, Kansas, on a sprawling 40 acres of fields where I spent my childhood roaming around. Linwood itself is a small town of 400 people, and sur...