Emily Wilkerson ’15

In my last entry for the Oberlin blogs, I look forward to my next adventure, look back at who I was before coming to Oberlin, and maybe learn a lesson in-between.

Commencement week: I lived to tell the tale.

In which I cover how I went about researching, writing, and sharing my capstone.

In honor of the beginning of All Roads, I've decided to bring back my series in which I give long form answers to questions I've received on tours. This time I'm answering what I think can seem like a taboo question - "what is your least favorite thing about Oberlin?"

aka Brohio aka my little brother's visit to Oberlin

Winter term is over! Long live spring semester! Long live Snowberlin!

Looking for an exciting and glamorous winter term project? Try capstone research!

A (hopefully humorous) look into my notebook from Contemporary Literary Theory: Post-modernity and Imagination.

There are a variety of questions tour guides get from prospective students applying to the college, but who are interested in pursuing music through the conservatory, but they all come down to the same thing: how involved can I be in the conservatory as a college student?

"So what do you do on the weekends?"

or How I Get to Oberlin or The Perks of Life in the Rust Belt

I didn't just bring tchotchkes back to Oberlin with me, I also brought some intangible things, new words, new experiences, and of course, lessons learned.

Now that I've jumped the hurdle that is finals week and gotten a little bit of distance from my classes, I figured I'd finally write about them.

Attempting to articulate my thoughts on place, home, and my relation to it. (Boy, study abroad sure can make these things complicated.)

... but you can't take the Oberlin out of the girls.

Why I applied, why I enrolled, and what I learned in the process.

Oberlin is a small place, but because I ended up there and followed where my academic interests led, I've gotten to see the world, or at least a small section of Central Europe.

Although I've lived in Munich for more than four months, I still have a lot to learn about my new home. Since coming to that realization, I'm so glad I chose a yearlong study abroad program.

Studying abroad isn't all fun and games. At the end of the day (or in my case, the beginning of it) I do have to go to class, do homework, and make it all happen auf Deutsch . Here's what I'm learning about.

The first post in my study abroad series. A bit later than intended, but still full of information about finding and applying to programs that interest you.

Hey class of 2017, this one's for you.

Looking for information on Oberlin's a cappella scene? Nothing But Treble is a good place to start.

Robert Frost said, "poetry is what gets lost in translation." Let me tell you why I disagree.

All of the books I read during fall semester

It turns out that 140 characters isn't enough to say everything that I want to say about learning a foreign language. Whoda thunk it?

A virtual tour of my favorite places in Oberlin.

Better known as my course load.

Spoiler alert: I started out without friends, ended up having a cool room, eventually made awesome friends, and witnessed some sustainability fails.

My experience on Oberlin's waitlist.

My friend Abbie + Oberlin + gorgeous weather = an amazing time

...I wanna write you a (winter term) blog post. That's how the song goes, right?

In order to give myself a break from sitting at my computer, paralyzed by my probably needless anxiety, I will write about a simpler time, a time when finals were a distant specter and winter break was eons away - last week.

It's just like Julie Andrews says (sort of), "I simply list some of my favorite things, and then I don't feel so bad!"