Oberlin Blogs

"An honorable and a friendly memory"

I like stories much more than I like lists, so here are four of them in two installments.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. Albert Camus, Defence of Freedom, 1960. This morning, I learned...

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."

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.

London is such an inexhaustible city that there's never going to be enough time to feel you've seen it all.

Oberlin's dirty secret, and why it must be stopped.

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.

And now we delve into one of the strangest, most exhilarating nights of my time here at Oberlin.

I'm leaving Oberlin for a semester, if not a year, and it's got me thinking again about what it means to be home. Over Winter Term I found a home in Monteverde, temporary, but a home nonetheless; and before I get all maudlin about leaving Oberlin, I wanted to share some snapshots of a beautiful month.

And by "the edge," I mean Mudd, 2 AM.

For those of you who got here by googling "Oberlin Super Smash major" you're at the right place. Read on.