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What Pomona Isn’t

Posted on April 10, 2015September 21, 2022 by Feather Flores

Pomona is an incredible institution, so it makes sense that so much of what you hear about it is positive. If you like to measure the worth of things in rankings, we're #8 on the Forbes national list, #5 on the U.S. News & World Report liberal arts college list, #20 on The Daily Beast's list (#1 and #7 on the "Student Life" and "Campus Quality" sublistings, respectively), a...

47 Reasons Why Pomona is a Special Place

Posted on April 6, 2015September 21, 2022 by Teofanny Saragi

My sponsor group at the Walker Wall painting during Orientation Week!

One of the opportunities the Office of Admissions offers first-year students is the chance to be a Student Ambassador. After you apply, eight first-year students are chosen to give tours, host prospective students, coordinate events for the tour guide and overnight host programs, and collaborate with the Office of Admissions on other projects. The tour guiding aspect of bein...

Developing Professional Skills as a First-Year Student (Part 1)

Posted on March 6, 2015September 21, 2022 by Teofanny Saragi

The water basin was unexpectedly breathtaking. There were many ducks swimming around!

One of the things that scared me the most as I entered college was the prospect of reality. Words like “decisions,” “long-term plans,” and “responsibilities” loomed over me, but I soon encountered multiple valuable resources for developing professional skills. Over winter break, I participated in the Career Development Office’s (CDO) Shadow a Sagehen program. Through thi...

Returning from Abroad: New Perspectives on Pomona

Posted on February 16, 2015September 21, 2022 by Madeleine Colvin

Coming back from studying abroad has been a difficult adjustment, compounded perhaps by having returned to the States only 6 days before arriving in Claremont. For a couple weeks, I was overwhelmed -- by the sheer number of people I knew on campus, by jumping right into classes without having time to readjust or catch up with friends, by having to answer the same questions abou...

Thoughts to Twenty-Thousand

Posted on February 9, 2015September 21, 2022 by Sophia Sun

"What would you say to a million people if you had the chance?" That's the question that prompted students in Designing Conversational Spaces, a course offered by NYU ITP, to launch a social interaction experiment called The Listserve. Once an individual subscribes, he or she has a 1/20000+ chance of being chosen to write to an international audience. And on a random ...

Pomona: My Home Away From Home

Posted on January 28, 2015September 21, 2022 by April Xiaoyi Xu

The promising dawn seen from outside my dorm.

Slowly, the dark sky is gently rinsed by hints of blue. Dark blue, light blue, lighter… and gold wash. So emerge the silhouettes of pink coloured clouds, rejoicing at the dawn of a new day. One of my very first blog entries after I started college was on the topic of nostalgia. It was an overwhelming emotion that accompanied the first-year curiosity in everything around me i...

Contradance: Outside the Claremont Bubble

Posted on December 28, 2014September 21, 2022 by April Xiaoyi Xu

Having lived in Claremont for four months now, I find it easy to be “stuck” in our comfortable “Claremont bubble”, whose tranquil cafés, bakeries, and froyo shops have become lovely weekend escape spots. Luckily, I got to explore the surrounding communities, largely through contradance! Contradance is a form of partnered folk dance whose origin can be traced back to 17-Cent...

For the Prospective Student Wondering About Los Angeles

Posted on December 18, 2014September 21, 2022 by Yttrium Sua

Coming to the US for college was my first time entering this country, and my eager mind was filled with preconceived notions and images of this place, notions created through a childhood diet of Sesame Street and American Idol. Los Angeles was a fantastical place for me, a glamorous city filled with celebrities in sweatshirts walking down sidewalks drinking Starbucks (or, as th...

Thanksgiving in the Bay: The Ease of Transportation Available to Students

Posted on December 1, 2014September 21, 2022 by Max Coleman

This post is going to be a rather quick one because this doesn't relate overly to Pomona but is something of a testament to its brilliant location! I'm from the East Coast (which I talk about in depth here), which definitely is an issue when it comes to holidays. Fortunately, there's TONS of the stuff to do on campus for any holiday, but I happen to spend my Thanksgivings i...