Pomona College - Overall Experience

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Just about any Pomona student will tell you that they truly enjoyed their college experience. And it’s not just the free booze that makes Pomona one of the happiest colleges in the country. It helps, but the booze alone couldn’t make everyone so darn genuinely happy, day in and day out. After all, some people don’t even drink, and they seem just as happy as everyone else. It’s not the location either. The classes are good, and the professors are great, and that certainly plays its part, and it’s an open, friendly campus, which is nice. But there is some other factor which makes people like this place so much. There are some people who were dead set on hating it. Why, you might wonder, did they go in the first place? One reason was parental pressure. Another was students, who by the end, had to grudgingly admit that they had enjoyed themselves. They might still claim that they don’t have an affectionate place in their heart for their alma mater, but they can’t deny that the experience was worthwhile.

The question is, “Why are Pomona students so unabashedly jolly?” There are only two feasible answers. One, they drug the water here. Unlikely, perhaps, but maybe Pomona is the site of a modern day governmental experiment in mass mind control. Barring that, it must be that people here just really like the people they go to college with. Are Pomona students better people than other selective liberal arts college students? Probably not. However, Pomona puts a great deal of stress on allowing people space to find their own way of doing things, both socially and academically. Sometimes, this is frustrating, sometimes people pine after the lost structure of high school and family life, but in the end, with the amount of freedom students are granted, they end up somewhere they want to be. Now if only everyone could get jobs.

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Students Speak Out

Anonymous says:

I think Pomona was pretty good,... I think Pomona was pretty good, but I sometimes wish I went to a school that more lay-people had heard of. It’s so insulting to have paid all that money and still have people think you went to a two year community college. Alas. 12345 Overall Experience Report

Anonymous says:

I really like it, and I’m... I really like it, and I’m incredibly glad that I came here. We really have it good here. Although people complain about stuff sometimes, it could be a lot worse. The school really takes care of us. We have good food, nice dorms, tons of activities, an incredibly lenient alcohol policy, and a beautiful campus. I could go on and on. The one complaint I have is that Pomona doesn’t have the name recognition it should. Hopefully, guides like this one will solve that. 12345 Overall Experience Report

Anonymous says:

I wish Pomona were in LA. I miss... I wish Pomona were in LA. I miss being in a city. Pomona lets you have cars your freshman year, which is great, but getting in and out of LA is a pain in the rear. Other than that, I honestly could not have asked for more from a college. 12345 Overall Experience Report

Anonymous says:

I wouldn’t trade my experience... I wouldn’t trade my experience here for the world. The school is all about learning how to learn. You just have to create your own experiences, and there is a lot to work with. 12345 Overall Experience Report

Anonymous says:

I have loved every minute of my... I have loved every minute of my time here. I love the small campus and being able to see so many friends and people I know just by walking to class. The campus is gorgeous and a perfect size; small enough so you can walk everywhere easily, but large enough so that you don’t feel closed in. All of the best classes I have ever taken have been during my time here. I feel like it’s home, and I will genuinely miss it when I’m gone. 12345 Overall Experience Report

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