Oberlin Blogs

The gun show is sold out for now. While you wait for the next time we tour, please enjoy a description of my Winter Term/honors project. Since you're so accommodating, let me also offer you two tickets to the potassium show.

I'm kinda envious, especially since many students pursue their winter-term project in another country, perhaps some city with a warmer clime than northeast Ohio in January.

A decidedly DIY guest post – if I combined my sheep-to-yarn skills with her yarn-to-clothes skills, we'd be unstoppable.

A pictorial essay of winter term in Oberlin (and a load of theater reviews)!

My Winter Term in (mostly) sunny Singapore learning Arabic and piano, and eating my mother's cooking.

I am still here. Though I entered Oberlin with an expected graduation date of May 2016, my taking a semester off has delayed that until this upcoming semester. This reality took me a long time to accept and I have a lot of feelings about what "not graduating on time" means for me.

A Winter Term learning independence among sheep, chickens, and seven year olds.

Where I was, what I did, what I ate, and who I was with during my Winter Term in the Philippines.

Purple potatoes, more cinnamon rolls, and why D&D is a conceptual model.

It's possible to teach English, completely in English, to people who speak no English.

Looking back on a winter filled with books and histories, I think the award for creepiest anecdote goes to Charles de Lint, and his story of a creature who lived in refrigerators and sucked the yolk out of eggs. If the human in residence then refused to buy any more eggs, the creature would move out of the fridge and on to the vitreous fluid in said human's eyeballs. Good times.

Although not a Winter Term on the West Coast, unfortunately.