- (laughing) My name is Matthew I am a senior here
at Pomona.
I am a music major, originally from Houston Texas.
(upbeat music)
- My name is Brittney I am a senior.
I'm majoring in cognitive science and french.
And.
- This is our dorm tour video
and were doing this to give you all a better idea
of what residence life is like at Pomona.
We've been living on campus all 4 years.
Now it's our senior year, we're living together.
- Yeah!
- Uh and we live in-
- Clark 1
- Now we're heading up to our room.
So we will show you that now.
- Welcome in. (laughing)
- Woo!
(hip hop music) So a little some things about my room,
so over in this corner,
I have memories from kind of throughout my time at Pomona.
So I have my first year door deck,
um I have my second year door deck,
I have my first year banner from when I was in Glee.
And one of my siblings is a really good artist,
so they drew me those cute adorable bunnies.
(laughing)
And kind of throughout the top over there the top line,
those are all like watercolor prints,
from when I was abroad.
Yeah, some from Paris some from the
castles along the Loire river.
And uh... then below that is like pictures
of family and friends.
So I'm really happy about that.
I have a board that's Paris themed as well (laughing)
and I really like playing board games,
so I have my board games right over here. (laughing)
And kind of some paintings or prints of paintings.
- [Matthew] A couple things to show you in here.
So behind me these are a bunch of posters from uh concerts
that I've gotten to do with the
Pomona college choir and Glee club.
I've been apart of the choir and the Glee club
um since my first year.
It's one of the spa- spaces that
Brittney and I both take part in
and it's a really um lovely community to be a part of.
And then, as you can see that I sort of pan up here.
What I have been doing the past couple of years is
collecting programs of shows that I've gotten to see.
A lot of which are through Pomona.
Things, a lot of them are on display down on the desk here.
(hip hop music)
Over here you have, I have this little gift from Brittney.
Um a little pop-up thing of Taiwan and then my
little bust of Johannes Brahms, the 19th century composer.
Behind that um, this is a football given to me by the
cast of uh, my first musical that was put on at Pomona
through Green room theater.
So Brittney and I (laughing) lived on the second floor
of Wig in a sponsor group together.
(upbeat music)
And a sponsor group is a group of about 15 to 20
first years who all live together in the same area
of a residents hall, with uh 2 sophomore sponsors.
Who volunteer their time and energy to serve as role models,
mentor figures, advice givers and just great (laughing)
people to have around
- Yes
- Our sponsors were lovely humans
and we miss them a lot.
- And we also have like a system of kind of like acronyms,
related to sponsor groups so we call sponsor groups
Spogrows as well.
The folks who are in your sponsor group
who are not sponsors, we call them Spibs or Spiblings.
- [Matthew] I think what is really interesting to consider
about the residents community at Pomona is that, you know,
we have this really intentionally created community of
the sponsor group in that first year.
It's a really nice space, it feels like your sort of
coming home to a group of people.
That you have a unit of community right where you live.
And then as you um as you move up it sort of becomes
more about the community that you create and who you
choose to surround yourself with and that is in
some ways just as valuable.
- [Brittney] Being juniors and seniors it was
a little bit more about like, who do you intentionally
choose to spend time with and like really like interacting
with those folks and making your own plans to see them.
- It's also really cool because we have a couple spiblings
who also live in Clark 1 right- right around us,
- (laughing) Yes
- So it's like that little bit of community sort of stays
with you, if you choose to have that
be apart of your experience
and that's also a really nice thing.
(chuckles)
So north and south campus of Pomona, um for me I loved
living on south campus my first 2 years.
Mostly because I am a music major uh,
(laughing)
I am in Thatcher all the time.
And (laughing) it was really nice to be able to
literally lock my door in Wig and walk 60 seconds
to the lobby of Thatcher.
That made for a really nice experience.
South campus is also really nice just because of the
sponsor groups and Osen board, all those kind of
intentional community's that are in place there.
Um, I still have a lot of friends who live down in
south campus and it is nice to sort of, go back and forth
visit folks down there.
- Yeah.
I lived on south campus for 3 years but I've got to say,
living on north campus now, something I really appreciate
about it is just it's so close to the rest of the Claremont-
- Yes. (laughing)
- Colleges the 5 C's as we loving- lovingly call them.
- (laughing) Mm hmm.
- Um, it's just really nice because I'm taking a class
at Pitzer right now and walking to Pitzer is not that far.
Walking to Merlot Scripp's dining hall,
- Very close.
- Is like 5 minutes.
- It's yeah.
- Incredible.
- Library is also like right behind us,
- It is yeah.
- It's like a 2 minute walk.
- It's super close, friends also live
kind of spread out throughout north campus.
And also when snack occurs at Frary,
which we are approaching right now.
- Yes we are.
- It is super easy to get there because I takes us
about like what?
3 minutes to walk to Frary?
- If that (laughing)
- What do we like about Clark 1?
Well it looks like this around us.
Which is like really nice. (laughing)
- Very aesthetic.
- It's very pretty.
(laughing)
Um it's nice to be in kind of individual living spaces.
- Mm hmm.
- Um and the two room double.
So like Matthew like you have your own room,
I have my own room.
- Mm hmm
- But the bathroom is through your room.
So it's kind of like we live together so.
- Mm hmm but there's enough privacy that we can all,
- Exactly.
- We each do our own thing.
Also our rooms are huge which is another great benefit.
- (laughing) Yes! it is so nice.
Exactly.
- And your room sort of became the common room early on.
- (laughing) Yes.
- All right everyone thank you so much for joining us on
our dorm tour today and as for me,
it's time for me to get to bed.
Good night everyone.
(light switch clicks)