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December 1, 2012
Including scientific studies on the effects of coffee; smart Obies; and my top seven coffee shops in the world.
Many Thanks
December 1, 2012
There are many things I am thankful for this Thanksgiving. Here are just a few of them.
A Foreign Language Revelation
November 28, 2012
It turns out that 140 characters isn't enough to say everything that I want to say about learning a foreign language. Whoda thunk it?
Doing Freshman Year Wrong
November 27, 2012
I arrived as this terrible realization: I'm going about college the absolute wrong way. I have failed as a freshman.
T-break in T-Town
November 25, 2012
This blog is going to be a photo essay of the highlights of my trip back to Tucson (colloquially known to some as the "Dirty T," although I heartily refute this).
What I'm Thankful For Redux
November 22, 2012
My first semester here, I wrote/drew a blog post about Thanksgiving. I'm building on that for my final semester.
How Not to be the Other
November 21, 2012
It helps to arm yourself with information that both supports what you already know and also challenges what you believe.
Interfaith Service: Success!
November 19, 2012
Pretty much the whole student body cares about community service, and we got good stuff done. We still need a deeper discussion about "interfaith," but that's next on the list . . . Many Oberlin students have a tendency to be dismissive of religion or openly religious classmates. I think they're responding more to the political end of religion (as we know it) than to any actual beliefs.
My Oberlin family.
November 17, 2012
"Family" at Oberlin is a fluid term... it can mean the people who are related to you to as well as the people who are not.
The Piano Shop
November 15, 2012
I was surprised at the level of detail that goes into every inch of the piano. You can see why a good piano costs as much as a car - we spent a few classes repainting the dampers, aligning and glueing new felt to each damper (the shape of the felt changes through different registers of the piano), putting them back into the piano, and fitting them until they perfectly silenced the strings.
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