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At Pomona, ED Does Not Stand For Early Decision

Posted on November 17, 2014September 21, 2022 by Kyra Sanborn

For the ambivalent high-schooler about to make one of the most important decisions of your life, let me alleviate some of that adolescent stress with my own humble suggestion: YES. GO WITH SAM TO PROM. Oh, and while you're at it, consider making the much easier choice about committing Early Decision to Pomona. It was a dark and stormy night in the winter of my senior year, m...

SoCal Struggles: Beaches, Buses, and Birds, oh my!

Posted on November 2, 2014September 21, 2022 by Sebastian Cevallos

While Pomona is only about 50 miles from the coast, getting to the beach is quite a struggle. I had never realized just how difficult it is to get around without a car in some areas. Being from urban Jersey, living right next to New York City, I've spent so much of my life commuting, taking trains and buses, that having a car never seemed necessary. While I have my license,...

A Meditation on Culture/Internationalism

Posted on September 3, 2014September 21, 2022 by Adam He

Drip. I sigh as I brush my damp hair out of my eyes. Drip. Another sigh. Drip. “Where’s that sound coming from?” My hand moves to my forehead again as I get up from my prone position. A flash of light. The sound of rain pattering violently on tile. “Ah.” I shuffle wearily to the window. “That’s where the drip came from.” “About time,” my mom grumbles in ...

If You Give a Mouse a Lysolecithin Injection…

Posted on July 16, 2014September 21, 2022 by Muhammad Jalal

She may lead you to a cure for multiple sclerosis (I work with female mice). The world of scientific research captivated me the summer prior to my first year at Pomona College. I found a summer research internship through the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center to gain first-hand perspective with a research setting. I worked my mentors to investigate drug combinations for T-cell leu...

The 3-Day Weekend

Posted on July 14, 2014September 21, 2022 by Claudia Crook

I am AMAZED at the difference a 3-day weekend can make. As a student, and particularly as a humanities student, I always had three-day weekends, and it never seemed like a real “holiday” to just get one extra day off of a work week. Boy, was I wrong! Having Friday off for the 4th of July this week was such a blessing! Really felt like I had an extra week of vacation after a ...

From Sea to Shining Lake

Posted on July 7, 2014September 21, 2022 by Muhammad Jalal

In order to survive…you try to recreate, as well as you can, your normality, some sense of things continuing. Whenever I’m reading, if there is a sentence or paragraph that resonates with me in particular, I put the book aside and start reflecting upon it. Such was the experience when I reached the above sentence in Jeanne Wakatsuki’s A Farewell to Manzanar for ID1 reading. I ...

Articulate Experience

Posted on June 26, 2014September 21, 2022 by Pryor Stroud

Despite what some hyper-literate humanities majors may claim – those, specifically, who use books-within-books to keep their pages marked – we all have limited vocabularies. Severely limited, I may even venture to say. Instead of the bottomless reservoirs we think we have, there is but a trickle of language available to us or, maybe, if one is peculiarly lettered, a puddle. Som...

District of Humidity (Round Two)

Posted on June 20, 2014September 21, 2022 by Leyth Swidan

Hello Sagehens! If you're reading this and are a current or recent grad student, congrats; you survived your freshmen/sophomore/junior/senior year! If you're an alum, thank you for hosting me in San Francisco during spring break for Pomona's Alternabreak, single-handedly making college affordable for me, and reading yet another summer intern's blog. Sophomore year is finally...

Dialogue and Adventurousness

Posted on June 18, 2014September 21, 2022 by Pryor Stroud

For Pomona students, summer demands adventure. The specificity of this claim - namely, that this addresses not all students, but Pomona-esque students alone - is deliberate. For your pleasure, the deliberation: Despite the earnestness of our wide-eyed, edge-of-our-seats classroom etiquette, we are, above all, autodidacts. We strive to learn, to improve ourselves through learnin...