Summer Experience – Page 2

Summer Research: Finding Funding and Free Meals

Posted on January 8, 2020September 21, 2022 by Calder Hollond

By Calder Hollond ‘21 One of the most daunting aspects of a typical school year at Pomona can be weaving a summer internship search into an already busy schedule of classes, on-campus jobs, studying, and other extracurriculars. Many students at Pomona get some sort of summer internship, whether it’s part-time or full-time, at home or in a different city, paid or unpaid. Thes...

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...

Getting to Kyrgyzstan

Posted on August 8, 2019September 21, 2022 by Dakota Crookston

By Dakota Crookston ‘21 My parents met online, I found Pomona through a web search, and I’m flying to Kyrgyzstan in seven hours because I googled “intensive russian study summer.” My trek started late last August, when I was scrubbing the internet for summer opportunities to learn Russian abroad. Unfortunately, the well-known Critical Languages Scholarship was out of the ...

My First Summer As a Lab Assistant

Posted on May 15, 2019September 21, 2022 by Myles Ashitey

By Myles Ashitey ‘22 My father would constantly drone on about my “untapped potential.” You could imagine his astonishment to discover that I was granted the opportunity to intern through a program called STEMPrep after my first year of high school. The program seeks out high-achieving, minority students with STEM interests and grants them laboratory experience by pairing...

A Summer in the Land of the Midnight Sun

Posted on December 6, 2018September 21, 2022 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...

How I read a book, thought of a project, and got Pomona to pay for it

Posted on November 15, 2018September 21, 2022 by Laura Zhang

By Laura Zhang ‘19 Believe me, if someone had told me when I came to Pomona that I would spend my summer after junior year working on a 5-week project with an animal welfare organization in northern Vietnam I wouldn’t have believed them for a second. Now, in my senior year, I’ve had the experience of taking a transformative class that led to an amazing opportunity abroad. ...

Where Rory Taylor Interviews Jack Buyske and Learns about Claremont Pizza Culture

Posted on September 7, 2017September 21, 2022 by Rory Taylor

by Rory Taylor '18 This week I sat down with Jack Buyske, a rising senior at Pomona, to talk about all manner of topics. A Public Policy Analysis major, Jack is on track to head off to medical school after he graduates. Our conversation ranged from the fierceness of the Sagehen mascot to his experience in the college process. Jack, first welcome, but just really quickly w...

A Love Letter to PAYS (Pomona Academy for Youth Success)

Posted on September 7, 2017September 21, 2022 by Eisen Ipac

by Eisen Ipac '19 “EISEN? EISEN ARE YOU AWAKE?” Hearing timid knocks, I fumble for my phone, wondering what time it is. 6:30 AM. The knocks stop, so I quickly kick off my blanket and run to open the door. A tall girl with beautiful warm skin and a soft face looks at me with apologetic eyes. “Hey Maeve, is everything okay?” “Sorry to wake you up, Eisen, but I locked myself...

Getting Out of Claremont

Posted on August 2, 2017September 21, 2022 by Mo Dyson

By Mo Dyson '19 In honor of the first Fourth of July weekend that I’ve spent in Southern California, I decided to write about the amazing versatility of Pomona’s location. For the past five weeks working in the Office of Admissions, I’ve been giving daily campus tours to scads of campus visitors, and some of my favorite stories to share are about all of the types of outdoor ...