Oberlin Blogs

It feels like just yesterday I was choosing a First Year Seminar of my very own.

I'm currently getting paid to spend my summer doing atmospheric physics research in Hawaii. That's right, I'm living life through pineapple-scented nose-filters. They're better than rose-colored glasses.

Oberlin has a lot of cooperatives, also known as co-ops. People pool their resources and help one another. Until about midway through my second semester, though, I hadn't really appreciated just how

My other life.

Yes, college is expensive, but you have some control over how expensive.

Actually I'm crazy busy, but whatever! It's summertime!

A tour, via photos, of the places I frequented all year in Dascomb.

Why am I back in Oberlin? Because it's fun to feed leftover tater tots to the albino squirrels.

Things about the first-year experience dorm in which I experienced my first year: how I got there, how my friends got there, and what it was like while we were all there.

What is "hard"? The pace is faster in college than in high school, but it's mostly notable in comparison. For example, in the first three weeks of Research Methods, we covered at least half of the material in my year-long A.P. Statistics course.

Turns out even the pickiest eater can chow down co-op style.

First off, we became an unofficial SexCo...