Oberlin Blogs

Trump wants a nasty woman? I intend to be the nastiest woman I can be.

But the thing I perhaps struggle with most right now is how incredibly terrifying it is to exist in a moment that will be revisited time and again years from now, while being completely unsure of what is to come next.

With a busy class schedule, study away paperwork, and some new jobs, I've managed to keep myself very busy this semester! As I get ready for my study away program next semester, I try to recap my study away application experiences.

A blog post in which my linguistic anthropology class served as first class therapy.

Bears, iodine tablets, tortillas, bruised hips, beautiful views, and good company.

Study abroad has made me think a lot about the word "home."

For a long time, the college experience was all about "big" to me.

On leaving New England to go to college.

Honestly, when I was trying to decide on my post-high school plans, I never even thought about going to a school like Oberlin College.

For me, the physical and psychological need to run completely eclipses any superficial insecurities. Perhaps it gives me an opportunity, for once in my life, to not overthink things.

This is how they made me/Houston, Texas BABY! - Beyoncé

Whenever I tell someone outside of Oberlin that I'm a Comparative American Studies major, they have no idea what it is. I like to describe it as the study of how one's experience in the United States differs based on the many facets of their identity.