(phone alarm ringing)
(window clanking)
(Elena sighing)
(toothbrush whirring)
- Hi, my name is Elena, I am from Italy,
and I'm a freshman at Pomona, and this is a week in my life.
It's Monday morning, and it's a very nice
beginning of the week, because I don't have class
until 4:00 p.m. today.
So I have the entire day to take it slow,
and hang out with friends, and do some homework.
So right now I'm gonna go to lunch,
and I'm gonna go to Frary, which is one of our three
dining halls on Pomona campus.
(slow instrumental music)
It's 4:00 p.m., and I'm going to Video Art now.
The class is two hours and a half,
that's the only thing I have to do today,
except studying a lot,
preparing a presentation for tomorrow,
and doing the Video Art homework.
Oh, look that is Margie.
(Margie laughing)
- My name is Margie, I'm a sophomore a Pomona.
I like to play tennis.
I study computer science.
(energetic techno music)
- It's Tuesday, we're having lunch at the Scripps,
which is another of the Claremont Colleges.
When you study at the Claremont Colleges,
you can eat at any one of the Claremont Colleges too,
as well as taking classes.
So for example, this morning I had a class at Pomona,
but I also had a class at Scripps.
- I had no classes.
- This is Lauren.
- Hi.
- [Elena] Hi friends.
- Hi!
- You hung up without saying bye.
Our hoodies are in. - Guess what guys,
our hoodies are in.
- Our hoodies are in.
- Our hoodies were kind of a little project
that me and Elena got into,
where we basically put student ID number
with certain numbers covered up,
and then the phrase, "Flex me in,"
which is a very 5C phrase.
We make them for people around the 5Cs
so that they can feel a sense of community.
- Get your fit today. - Today.
- It's Tuesday night, and I'm having dinner with Michelle,
who is my international student mentor.
She's part of the ISNP program,
which helps international students on campus
to get adjusted to life in the U.S.
And right now we're just catching up over a meal.
- Hi, my name is Michelle,
I'm a senior studying economics and Asian studies,
and I'm originally from Germany,
and I'm super excited to be here
and meet cool people like Elena.
- It's Wednesday, and it's 10:00 a.m.,
and for some reason, Claremont just got so much colder.
I don't have classes on Wednesday until 04:00 p.m.
Right now I'm going to my shift for my work.
I work as a student videographer
for the Communications Department,
and I just make and edit videos.
(upbeat techno music)
I finished my shift, I found Margarita!
- Margarita!
- Now we're gonna go to Oldenborg for lunch,
and Oldenborg is a residence hall,
but it also has a dining hall.
And you go there, and you sit at a table,
and you speak a foreign language.
And we're gonna go to the.
- Italian table!
(upbeat techno music)
(speaking foreign language)
(upbeat techno music)
I'm walking to my Video Art class right now,
it's Wednesday, 4:00 p.m., and it's really cold.
Can you not say those words?
(laughing)
Can you remind her?
- It's cold!
(upbeat techno music)
- My first class on Thursday is at 9:35 a.m.
I get to walk through Marston Quad.
(wind whooshing)
Which is this beautiful park in the middle of Pomona,
because it connects the south campus where I live,
to the academic building, the administrative buildings.
My class is literally on the other side of Marston Quad,
so I get to cross this in the morning.
(slow techno music)
I'm now walking past the Honnold Mudd Library,
which is a library here at the 5Cs,
and I'm going to my second class
of the day at Scripps College.
Right now I just had my Environmental Analysis class,
and now I have my Italian Culture class.
And then I have another class this afternoon at Pitzer,
which another of the Claremont colleges here.
- Hey, where are you?
- I'm on my way to Pitzer.
(energetic techno music)
We're going to our class at Pitzer now.
It's called Survey of British Literature.
- It's a cool class, I enjoy it.
It's three hours, once a week.
So it's like a fun three hours.
(slow techno music)
It's Friday morning, and we don't have classes,
but there is a conference at Claremont mcKenna,
which is another of the other colleges in Claremont.
So we are going there,
it's a conference about the environment.
And right now there's a panel
about technology, business and the environment.
And then after that I have lacrosse.
Let's go eat lunch.
(chattering)
Can I get six of this ones, please?
Thank you so much.
It's now time for lacrosse.
Basically, at Pomona, we have to take
two semesters of PE, and this is mine.
So it's Friday after lunch.
I'm here with Andrew.
- Hi, my name's Andrew, and I'm Elena's best friend.
We play lacrosse together.
- [Student] All right, we're all starting.
- [Student] Came here to win,
so we're gonna win this game, all right?
Woo-hoo on three!
One, two, three!
- [All] Woo-hoo! - [Student] Yeah, let's go.
- [Student] You're at 30 seconds!
- [Student] Let's go, let's go.
We're not losing this game.
- In reality, we're going to Potato Mountain.
It's not a joke, it's the name of the mountain,
'cause it looks like a potato.
And we're going to watch the sunset.
- We forgot to bring the potato offering.
We need to go to the dining hall now--
- [Student] What does that mean, what does that mean?
- I think they have baked potato.
We have to bring a potato to the mountain.
Yes.
(footsteps tapping)
So we're hiking Potato Mountain right now. (laughing)
It looks kind of civilized.
- Not it's 6:00 p.m., and I have a movie screening
for one of my classes to go to.
So I went to Frary, the dining hall,
and I green boxed my meal.
Which means I get to eat somewhere else,
and bring back the box, and then it can be reused.
And that's our green box system.
(upbeat dance music)
We're spending this Saturday in Santa Monica.
We took the train and then the metro to get here.
It took us two hours from Claremont,
and now we're on the beach and we're just enjoying
the last hour of sunshine of the day,
and then we're gonna go get dinner,
and then go back to Claremont tonight.
- We're getting dinner at Eataly in Beverly Hills.
(ocean waves whooshing)
- And the pier is right there.
- Saturdays!
- Saturdays away from Claremont.
Happy Sunday.
- Happy Sunday.
- We're going to the library,
'cause Sunday is study day.
We're gonna do that the entire day.
(energetic techno music)
And that is the end of this week.
Thank you so much for following me,
and I hope to see you at Pomona soon.
Bye.