Most recent posts
A Very Fierce Thanksgiving
A post and a toast to families away from families: Thanksgiving is what you make of it. Or make for it.
New York (fun) Times
A sampling of Thanksgiving, in which my senses are assaulted, a friend's family welcomes, feeds, and houses some Obies, and I despise buses.A Visitor's Guide to Oberlin: Thinking Outside the Box
The fourth and final part of my four-part series on visiting Oberlin.
If you give an Ali a paintbrush, some paper, and some clay...
My friend Ali is having an art show... and I'm close enough to the process to inhale the paint fumes and clay dust.Joining worlds.
...specifically my cultural and artistic worlds. And yes, that is the motto for Oberlin Shansi. Am I hinting at something?Love Letter to the Oberlin Cross Country Team
At least the people on the treadmills aren't deluding themselves. They know that they're going to end up right back where they started, sweaty and out of breath.Course Bylaws
A non-exhaustive compilation of rules unique to various professors I've had.
Cranes, construction, and color theory.
A piece from my Color Theory class inspired by construction on Oberlin's campus.
Insanely busy(ier than usual)
In which Tess raves about her social science classes, challenges the use of images of women in advertising, goes to a panel discussion, and learns how to sing (kind of).Eccentricities
An abbreviated list of Oberlin eccentricities...I'm sure there are many more, though.
Fourth Meal: Dascomb Dining Hall, 10:00 PM - 11:30 PM
It's a nice break from calculators and the viral YouTube videos we watch when the math gets to be too much.
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