Pomona College - Off the Record

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Pomona College Students Tell It Like It Is

'Yo, I like you.' ? According to some, the best line to use when picking up prospective mates. For extra turn-on power, accompany with eyebrow twitches.

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O.E. in the I.E. ? Short for 'Olde English in the Inland Empire.' Olde English is a fine malt liquor, O.E. in the I.E. is a practice wherein one picks a place in the Inland Empire (a petting zoo, for instance) and then goes there and drinks as much O.E. out of brown paper bags as possible.

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Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming to Pomona:

Not to take any classes before noon. (Though it's totally doable.)
If you want to work with dolphins, you have to take Bio classes, Neurochem classes, Psych classes, and Cog-Sci classes. Philosophy and English don't cut it.
Philosophy and English are fun, and they allow you, if you engage in them with vigor and verve, to be learned and yet still 'cool.' This lets you look down on all the naïve kids with nice haircuts and pressed pants taking computer science. All this I knew. However, what didn't occur to me is that it is these kids who get $60,000 plus job offers right out of college. Then they can afford really nice pants. Who is feeling superior now?
Do as much stuff as possible! It is far too easy to be apathetic, both academically and socially, at Pomona. Generally, the more you do, the better time you'll have.
Dreadlocks, although tres façonable, are itchy, smelly, and generally annoying to grow.
The King's English: It's useful, and you're not going to learn it here.

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