Author: Saahil Desai

Immediately after choosing to come to Pomona College, I signed up for the SAT Subject Test in Spanish to fulfill my foreign language requirement. I had little to no interest in the languages offered at Pomona, or at the 5Cs as a whole, and really couldn’t find a legitimate reason

West Chester, Ohio is one of those places that could be anywhere in the Midwest.  The roads of this Cincinnati suburb are littered with chain restaurants and stores: Long John Silvers, IHOP, Perkins, Lowe’s, Chipotle, Car-X, KFC, Speedway … the list goes on. Nestled between strip malls one can find

Abdulrahman al-Awlaki loved watching The Simpsons. He avidly read Harry Potter. He frequently updated his Facebook page. Born in Denver, al-Awlaki was a typical American teenager. That is, until Oct. 14, 2011, when al-Awlaki was savagely killed by an American Predator drone in southern Yemen. “Local residents told me his body was

What does the SAT stand for? The Scholastic Aptitude Test was my first guess. Wrong. Perhaps the Scholastic Achievement Test? Also wrong. In fact, the SAT stands for absolutely nothing—it’s a fake acronym. The College Board has dropped the original meaning of SAT due to controversies over the utility of

Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Minneapolis: Together, the majority of students at Pomona College come from these eight places. Let’s face it—Pomona is not anywhere near as demographically diverse as brochures and admissions officers often claim to prospective students. Just about everyone at

I am a Spotify junkie. From Death Cab for Cutie to Elliott Smith, I listen to almost all of my music through the free online streaming service to the point that it has made my iTunes completely defunct. When I first got a Spotify account last year, I was partly

A certain photo on the “Pomona Memes” Facebook page caught my eye last week. It featured a stock photo of a woman crying with the caption, “Just found out one of my friends is a Republican.” At first glance, this photo was hilarious—the 63 people who liked it seem to

Dear Pomona College,  Let us fail.  By attending Pomona, we open doors for ourselves that otherwise wouldn't be available. We get access to the Career Development Office. We get access to small classes with some of the world’s best professors. We get an opportunity to change the way we think,