I'm Jay Pier, I'm from Freeport, Maine. I'm a junior here at Pomona.
I'm double majoring in French and Science Technology in Society.
So we are here on North Campus and behind me is Dialynas.
It's one of the Senior dorms on Campus, and as we move around,
we see the Clarks and Lowry, where I live.
Which are also part of North Campus. North Campus is where a lot of the upper classmen live
So juniors and seniors, So as you
move to upperclassman, you usually move to North Campus.
Which is really nice because you're so close to Dining Halls
from multiple colleges. So I'm just as close to Collins Dining Hall
at CMC as I am to Frary Dining Hall here at Pomona.
So it's super nice to live at North Campus and there's a lot of cool perks.
So in my first two years at Pomona, I lived in Lyon Dorm.
Which is way down on South Campus and then Oldenborg
which is the language dining hall. And the way Oldenborg works is
that it's split up into different halls based on language, so I actually live in the French Hall
which as a French major is really nice cause I got to speak French
when I left the dorm every single day and there are really fun events
with crepes and cheese and stuff like that, but it was really fun to
You know, have that language experience outside of academic classes.
There are actually three towers in Lowry and I live
on the first floor of the C-Tower, and so
we walk up the stairs here and go into the dorm here, there's
a porch, just outside of our dorm and, as we enter,
here's our common room and these are my suite mates. It looks like there are doing some work here.
This is a really nice common room space because we can just hangout, relax
listen to music or do whatever. It's a really nice space.
Liz is doing a puzzle over here.
"Liz" That's what I do with my free time.
So I actually met Liz in my first couple weeks at Pomona
We ended up taking a dance class together and Nathan was in the sponsor group
where Liz....uhhh shoot.
And Liz was in a sponsor group with Nathan and so
they were spibling and I was adopted into that sponsor group
and because of that we have just been friends ever since and we decided to live together for Junior Year.
So in your first year at Pomona, you are split up into different halls
which are called sponsor groups and so there 15 to 25 first year students
with 2 sophmore sponsors. And those sponsors feel like your big brother/big sister
and so a really nice mentor as you come into college, and then,
you're really close to your sponsor group, so close that we call each other spiblings
and it's very much a family
and mentor program all at once, so it's a really cool way of entering in Pomona
with a group of friends already.
And this is my room.
So my room is almost completely Maine themed
because I am from Freeport, Maine, which is a small town in Maine.
So here on the wall is a small map of Arcadia National Park
which is a national park in Maine. There are some license plates here
one New Hampshire and one Maine
and then as we go around we have some posters
One of Sunday River which is a ski resort in Maine
and the other one, just a general poster
of the coastline by my calendar.
and then if you go down here, alot of lobster themed stuff
because lobster is important in Maine
big commerce in Maine, so there's a lobster flag
and over here, I also love music
so over here is my music corner, so I have my record player,
and some records on the wall and some posters
and as we keep going around, we have my bookcase. So there's
bean boots down here as bookends
because bean boots are very much the main style of boot.
And then as we go further up, there's a family photo,
and a tote bag with a map of Maine on it
as well as a Cecil, you have to have a Cecil in your room.
A light house. And as we keep going around,
a puzzle and maps, and music type things.
One of the things that really resonates with me in my dorm is
the bookends, the bean boots, my boots that I use when it's winter
but, it's very much a part of my life.
They are very worn. I've worn them so much that I've gone skiing
back east and also out here.
It just shows a little slice of home because bean boots are made in Freeport, Maine
which is my hometown, in so having
a little bit of LL Bean and a little bit of my worn outdoor boots
really resonates with me and I'm really happy I got to include
it into the design of my room as well.
Thank you so much for joining me on my dorm tour.
It was fun to be able to show my home
with you guys, but now it's time for me to go to bed.
so goodnight.