Oberlin Blogs

It's okay to ask a lot of questions, make mistakes, get lost, miss home, and meet a billion new people. You only get to be an Oberlin first-year once.

Too much beauty occurred this summer to capture it all in words, so instead I would like to share some of my favorite photos of my favorite moments.

Here ya go froshbabies. This is the definitive guide.

In which we overshare about all the languages we have attempted to master...English still being one of them.

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.

Welcome to Ask a Friend, in which four of my fellow Obies share their thoughts on the ups and downs of college life. In less than three weeks, we'll be back at Oberlin, so today's theme is BACK TO SCHOOL!

A long look at what I did this summer and what I'll be doing next semester, with cute animal photos!

No, this is not The Odyssey Online.

In which my world falls apart at a very inconvenient time.

In those fleeting moments where you find yourself wedged between possibility and rejection, remember these things... before you go.

Half wish list, half confessional, here are spectacular things that could be done here that I've never gotten around to.

I now think about where I was this time last year, when I was fresh off the tails of high school and pretty darn directionless with how I was going to spend my summer, and yeah, I can totally see why some people have not been able to recognize me.