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Meredith Warden ’23
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Finding Community through Commiserating: My Honors Seminar
December 10, 2022
We complain a lot, but it's all in good fun.
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Visiting Other Obies Abroad, and a Mini-Reflection on Study Away
April 29, 2022
For my spring break abroad in Edinburgh, I visited some Oberlin friends currently studying in Spain.
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A Visit to London
February 28, 2022
This past week, I traveled outside of my study abroad home city—Edinburgh, Scotland—to go to London for three days!
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Edinburgh!
January 28, 2022
In many ways studying abroad in a new place is like starting college all over again.
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What I Read This Semester 2.0
December 23, 2021
While, of course, depending on your major and interests, you could read wildly different books than what I’ve included here, I still hope this list is interesting and gives you a snapshot into what one Oberlin student reads over the course of a semester!
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Reflections on Finding One’s Place, 2 ½ Years Later
November 24, 2021
The best thing about Oberlin, I think, is that the communities you find for yourself here are, in many ways, up to you.
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A Sense of Balance
October 10, 2021
While having a busy schedule is sometimes overwhelming, self-reflection and making sure that I still want to commit to the things I’m doing help me manage and enjoy my time here.
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Little Things
July 12, 2021
I think I’ve always been a somewhat introspective person who notices the ‘little things in life.’
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Home Once More: My Off-Semester from Oberlin
April 1, 2021
I still feel connected to Oberlin’s community even when I’m hundreds of miles away.
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Working in the (Virtual) Writing Center
December 5, 2020
Ever since I learned about the Writing Center at Oberlin, I knew that I wanted to work as a writing associate.
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Field Hockey Family
October 25, 2020
As I prepared to go back to Oberlin for this fall semester, I was unsure about what practicing sports would look like in the middle of a pandemic.
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A Summer Internship During the Pandemic
August 21, 2020
You can still gain work experience as a young college student even with the pandemic and an uncertain future.
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Learning in the Time of Pandemic
April 28, 2020
My StudiOC posts are, in themselves, a way to represent life during coronavirus, to try to understand specific aspects of this pandemic within a broader context and take note of my own responses.
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Examining History: My Winter Term Project
January 31, 2020
Why do history museums exist? What power do they hold as cultural institutions and ‘gatekeepers’ of the past?
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What I Read This Semester
December 28, 2019
Now that my first semester in college has officially ended, I can safely say that I’ve read a lot these past four months.
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Why Office Hours Aren't Actually Scary
November 18, 2019
I see office hours as just another way people at Oberlin demonstrate how invested they are in every single student’s education.
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On Atmosphere
October 29, 2019
The atmosphere of a school is more than just academics—it is made up of those tiny, everyday interactions and observations that define one’s relation to a place.