<p>Ooh okay. I mistook sunny to mean southern. </p>
<p>Which Claremont schools are you applying to? (My mom's a Pomona prof.)</p>
<p>Frog--We're Jewish/atheist/catholic rejects mostly. Played several games of scrabble and ate copiously...that's about all.</p>
<p>Im applying to pomona, Claremont, and Pitzer. Im not math or science oriented and im also a guy, so that eliminates the other 2. Those are the only schools in cali that i am applying in besides my four UCs.</p>
<p>they're so amazing!!! I took a class in 18th century women's lit at Pomona this past semester and learned more (about something I never expected to learn anything about, too) in those fifteen weeks than probably in the rest of my seventeen years as an English speaker.</p>
<p>I just CAN'T stay in Claremont.</p>
<p>yeah makes sense
i CANT stay in california
So i see where you are coming from
what does your mom teach treesnogger?</p>
<p>Philosophy, but not the old dead white guys--more of environmental ethics, business ethics, etc. This semester she co-taught a class with a biologist on stem cells, which I wish I could have taken! Luckily a lot of liberal arts schools are heavy on interdisciplinary possibilities.</p>
<p>yeah
it must be nice having your mother teach there
is claremont nice?
Ive never visited</p>
<p>Ugh I WISH I could go to CA. I feel like I'm really missing out by not applying to Pomona. Rawr. I would never get to come back home.</p>
<p>That, and the good weather would probably give me a heart attack. Better stay here where it's cold and rainy.</p>
<p>where do you live brillar?</p>
<p>Lancaster, Pennsylvania. So a plain flight away from CA... very expensive plain flight. Ah well.</p>
<p>yes a big one,
trust me
California gets old
lol</p>
<p>That's part of my justification for going to the east coast--I'd almost never HAVE to come home.</p>
<p>Claremont's nice enough, but boring if you've grown up here--it's a very tiny college town. The colleges do a nice job of sustaining some level of entertainment for younger people, at least, and LA is only a trainride away. </p>
<p>I'm not being fair. Claremont is quite nice--many trees and coffeeshops. It's the Inland Empire (which surrounds it) I'd recommend avoiding.</p>
<p>haha
never really heard of the inland empire</p>
<p>It's the disgusting wasteland sandwiched between LA proper and the desert. I don't recommend any further acquaintance.</p>
<p>Where in central California do you live? Not Bakersfield, I hope?</p>
<p>haha
nope
I had to go there the other day for an Interview
I live a little farther in a very small town, near Fresno, but I sure as hell dont live in fresno, Its trash, lol. I live in a small town called Avenal.</p>