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June 1, 2012
We're gonna can the emotions in this one and just tell some Oberlin stories. Thanks for reading.
In My Room: The Positives and Negatives of My First-Year Experience
May 31, 2012
Spoiler alert: I started out without friends, ended up having a cool room, eventually made awesome friends, and witnessed some sustainability fails.
Roller Coaster Adventures
May 31, 2012
In which I go to an amusement park with a group of friends, figure out what to do with a pile of free stuff, get mistaken for Guy's younger brother, and move into summer housing.
Grad Tips from a Pro
May 25, 2012
Tips, tricks, and advice from a five-year Oberlin commencement/reunion veteran. The fun is upon us!
Farewell to Oberlin, Part I
May 21, 2012
I like stories much more than I like lists, so here are four of them in two installments.
Obie Talk Shuts Down
May 14, 2012
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. Albert Camus, Defence of Freedom, 1960. This morning, I learned...
Agonizing over organizing
May 7, 2012
This is actually about my end-of-year schedule. However, I did have a friend who thought 'organizing' and 'antagonizing' were interchangeable when she was six: "Mommmmm, Michelle is organizing meeeeee."
On the Run
May 3, 2012
Oberlin doesn't have ideal running weather all the time, but there are truly beautiful days, usually in the fall or early spring. We had a string of these last week and I decided to document my Sunday jog with a camera.
Mrs. Dalloway's House: The London Adventure
April 30, 2012
London is such an inexhaustible city that there's never going to be enough time to feel you've seen it all.
Paying for College: Idealistic Alternatives
April 26, 2012
The point of all this idealistic, semi-ideological rambling is to say that there's something a little bit broken about the way that paying for college works right now. My would-never-work-but-what-if solutions to the problem include direct loans from colleges to students and a tithe system.
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