A First-Generation Low-Income (FLI) Student’s Reflections After completing finals last spring and returning to the comforting recluse of my parent’s home, a reflection of my first year on campus was nothing short of unavoidable. My childhood home, situated in a small, rural Nebraskan town, stands in contrast to the buzzing, collaborative, resource-filled environment at Pomona…
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VR: A Student Perspective
As I’ve gotten older, the mental distinction between being informed and educated has only become more and more apparent. Struggling through a final exam season full of lecture review, textbook reading, and caffeine-induced focus feels academic at heart. Facts are dutifully memorized for tomorrow’s test; being informed is being prepared. It’s only three semesters down…
As we approach the end of the Spring 2021 semester, we would like to give a BIG thanks to all our student employees for their dedication and hard work throughout this uniquely challenging remote academic year. Your valuable time, insight, and service across geographies and time zones helped us maintain academic continuity at Pomona —…
Like most colleges across the nation, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Pomona College shifted to online-only instruction and remained that way for two semesters. As a liberal arts college, Pomona’s raison d’etre is in the high quality of undergraduate in-person teaching, something that distance learning imperiled. To maintain the thriving student-professor interaction that characterized on-campus learning,…