#Cal Poly Pomona

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Cal Poly Pomona Soccer

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I’ve been going to Cal Poly Pomona in some fashion my whole life, and after all these years, I finally found a scenic route from an exclusively non-student parking lot.

More universities need spaces like this.

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Fall activities. Pumpkin patches and hay rides 🙂

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📍 George § Sakaye Aratani Japanese Garden (Cal Poly Pomona)

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My time at the Cal Poly 3-day summer transfer program : Thu 25 - Sat 27

Animal crossing theme ~ 🍃

Food options I had

New beanie baby acquired ft: Cheezer + Squeaker

Peep of the figurines at the Boba shop my group and I went to

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Walking around Pomona

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Now Experiencing: College Tours

My sister, and my cousin, are in college right now. Honestly, they are doing college the way I wished I had done college. As I am no longer a student, always in my mind but not stuck to one institution, I am helping them both and getting to relive my college experience through them.

My Background:

I did very well in elementary school, middle school, and high school. I graduated a scholar with honors from Edison High School. Early in my high school experience, I fell in love with FIDM. I remember, I was in a class researching colleges and looked at all the flags on the wall and at the end was a boot. What the boot? I have a very good knack for design and fashion and building and branding. I got accepted my 2nd year of high school. My first year of college was a massive slap in the face. I should of switched majors to marketing, but I stuck to it. I use parts of my degree today, but I have a couple of regrets on how I went about my college experience. What I would do differently if I could:

I would try a class in high school or even community college during summer and see if you really like it or the idea of it.

I would really shop around more, and ask students that actually went there what is true and not true about what the college claims to do.

At the end of the day, I use my college not in a direct way-any job I have had that was utilizing my direct experience got me fired. Funny I know. I ended up falling into the family legacy of real estate and have done well for myself all things considered.

My College Experience (Living Vicariously):

I graduated college in 2012, that is now 12 years ago. My younger family members are currently in community college. One wants to get into accounting and the other wants to get into a plant major. So, when my sister was like, "Tour colleges?" "Hell Yeah!". I skipped that step, at least actually comparing colleges. We toured 3, me with two different majors in mind:

UCI: University of California Irvine-Now, I am sure this is a great school. But to me and my sister-this felt like a bad movie set of a movie we did not want to watch. Huge campus, walking tour of almost 2 hours. Growing and under construction too. I was ok with it for my cousin, they had a great looking greenhouse. But I was meh for my sister. We had to pay for parking.

CPP: Cal Poly Pomona: I had my BIL friend graduate from here and already knew of it and was so excited for this one after Irvine. It is a great fit for either accounting or plants. It was so pretty. It was a very good price, not much more than Fullerton but less than Irvine. I believe parking was free for this one.

UCF: University of California Fullerton-We were actually going to just go with Pomona but an associate of mine said to at least consider Fullerton. For accounting, the piece of paper is so much more important-plus all the aspects that modern employers demand of young working youth. Fullerton is in a great location, good size school, good budget, and so much bang for your buck. You had to pay for parking.

Why were we looking at these? These are the schools that they can get into with an AA (special for transfer). Things I was considering was: how likely were they going to be involved in activities, the people that would be around them, the education itself, the location compared to where they live, the price. I love Fullerton for my sister and Pomona for my cousin. It was also kind of funny, kind of sad, but so many parents were there with their kids for the tours! I don't remember mine doing that, and me and my sister were usually the only non parent child group. But I had a blast doing it, and I suggest everyone shop around when making a decision that will change, for better or worse, the rest of your life. I would gladly do that for anyone that needs it again!

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Cal Poly SLO: I'm the better Cal Poly! Cal Poly Pomona: No I am! Oh what's that? Is it Cal Poly Humbolt wITH A STEEL CHAIR?!??!

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A list of universities that are holding movements with a high demand for a divestment from Israel apartheid.

“You cannot stop an idea whose time has come.”

“End apartheid. End this genocide. Free Palestine. Free them all. End white supremacy. End racism everywhere. End settler colonialism. 🍉”

(Words and picture from a twitter post by @DrRupaMarya.)

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Cal Poly - Pomona, Western Washington University, Ball State, and Alabama A & M also offer urban planning undergraduate degrees

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Cal Poly Pomona Soccer

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good to be back and helping out

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College Chronicles

Since the deadline to make a decision is nigh, my brother is finally actually touring of some of the schools he's been accepted to.

San Jose State (SJSU) is the current front runner. He needs to get a 3 on the AP Calculus exam to be officially in, although the admissions counselor said there was a work-around there if he didn't. I think it's a test they administer through the university? One of his best friends has also committed to SJSU and said if my brother goes he'd like to room with him. My dad is being a total jackass about this. "It's too close to home." OK? Then you shouldn't have allowed him to apply there! And seriously? We're going to punish the kid because he happened to grow up in an area where there are a ton of great opportunities because you've decided he "needs" to go far away? Shut up.

Chico State (CSCU) is out but my brother said if you could move the campus slightly closer to a city he'd definitely consider it seriously. Totally fair. It's a cute, affordable college town but Sacramento is 1.5 hours away on a good day. I'm glad he's weighing the schools and considering he has to live there.

Long Beach is old and rundown and felt depressing, according to him lol. Fullerton had a nice campus and people were smiling and seemed happy but he finds the 97% commuter aspect off-putting. He also liked the campus at Cal Poly Pomona and said the chemical engineering program sounds fantastic but it's basically Chico but further south (remote, not much going on in the area). But, he hasn't officially eliminated it.

SF State is also an option but is even closer to my parents' house than SJSU (my stepmom drives past it on her way to work most days) and so again, my dad is being a pill about it. My brother doesn't seem terribly excited about it, anyway, other than he knows the area and spends time in the city anyway so it's comfortable.

He hasn't visited Sonoma or Northridge. He turned down UC Santa Cruz's waitlist spot. At one point UC Davis was also in the mix (waitlisted) but he didn't love it when he visited and told me he had it at the top of his list because it's a UC and "everyone told me to be into it."

I told him if he wants to talk through his thoughts/concerns I'd be happy to help him make some pro/con lists or figure out his non-negotiables or just listen to him vent and he said he knows and loves me (omg) and he's going to sleep on it and talk to his girlfriend (who also got into SJSU and liked it, FYI) and he may call me to talk later. At this point I may offer to be there when he tells his parents his decision if for no other reason than to whip something at my dad's head if he expresses anything other than enthusiastic support.

@pelicanhypeman and I are pretty sure it's going to be SJSU. My dad thinks I support this because it's 10 minutes from my house and uhhhh... if the kid wanted to go to school in Japan I'd support him! What is there to be gained by shitting on his decision, especially if it's not an inherently harmful one? He'll pull away from us out of hurt, not out of finding independence. I don't want that kind of relationship with him.

Now I need to figure out what to get him as a graduation present (I still owe him a trip from 8ther grade graduation in 2020) and order the bullhorn for the ceremony.

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Cal Poly Pomona is a great place to go if you want to feel like you’re having a picnic at Starfleet Headquarters

Cal Poly Pomona is a great place to go if you want to feel like you’re having a picnic at Starfleet Headquarters

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The Japanese garden in Cal Poly Pomona, BroncoBound Open House

In the Rose Garden with Cheezer

April 13, 2024

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Anyway I just saw a post saying that the protests here in the US are “taking away attention” from what’s actually happening in Gaza and “LARPing oppression” as if 1) the whole point of the protests is to put attention on Gaza and call for a ceasefire and 1.5) shows they’re exclusively getting their news from mainstream cable networks and 2) it’s not the fuckin media’s own fault they’re more interested in covering protests than the actual genocide, and 3) the students are somehow not facing oppression ???????

For one, what’s the solution here? Tell these students who feel very strongly (and rightfully so!) about this issue to just give up and go home? Who exactly does that benefit? Oh, right, the universities who are benefiting from this genocide, as well as the federal government. Good plan.

For two, I realize that the university at the center of this is an Ivy League school, and that the students who are there are privileged in many ways. However, that does not change the fact they are facing violence from the university and from police. That does not change the fact many of these students are Palestinian, Jewish, or other minorities. Beyond that, Columbia is not the only school where protests are happening. Emerson, USC, Yale, Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Cal Poly Humboldt, NYU, Vanderbilt, Brown, University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, Emory, Indiana University, Purdue, George Washington University, UCLA, Northeastern, Ohio State, UT Austin, Arizona State, Washington University St Louis, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, University of Georgia Athens, Sonoma State, San Francisco State, Sacramento State, University of Washington, Virginia Tech, Princeton, University of Minnesota, UConn, USC, University of Illinois, University of Utah, McGill, Portland State, UNC Chapel Hill, Tulane, University of Florida Gainesville, University of Colorado Denver, Case Western Reserve, City College of New York, Rutgers, Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland College Park, Barnard College, Pomona College, DePaul, Georgetown, University of Delaware, University of Arizona, University of New Mexico, University of Wisconsin, Virginia Commonwealth University, Oberlin, UC San Diego, University of San Diego, and I’m sure many others have or are currently participating in protests. Many of these schools are not elite universities only the best of the best (or the most money) get in. For crying out loud, my ass got into Indiana University.

That begs another question as well. Yes, these students at Ivy League schools have privilege. How else would you prefer they use it? When one has privilege, it is imperative to utilize it for the benefit of those one has privilege over.

Anyway. Free Palestine. Defund the police.

“Taking away attention from what’s actually going on” this is like saying the university protests against the Vietnam War were taking away attention from what’s actually going on in Vietnam. (Which I’m realizing now was probably an actual talking point at the time, but sounds ridiculous now.)