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Starting the Search Again

October 31, 2011

Lauren Manning

Oberlin has been the small, tight-knit and stimulating community I have needed for the past several years. But I am on the brink of exploring life and discovering my specific place in the world — a both exciting and terrifying prospect.

On an Empty Oberlin and NaNoWriMo

October 31, 2011

Alanna Bennett

I made the choice to stay on campus this fall break, partly to decompress from midterms and gear up for the next half of the semester, and partly just to embrace that deceptive stillness.

Womberlin

October 31, 2011

Ruby Turok-Squire

The womb chair, taken on the macro-scale, is an analogy for the soft, supportive, wonderful, dreamy bubble of Oberlin.

Faux-op

October 30, 2011

Sophia Chen

This year, I didn't get into a co-op. Where was I going to get my weekly serving of granola? How could I say goodbye to the cinder block-sized bricks of cheese that arrived every Wednesday? Was I going to waste away trying to cook all my meals for myself?

Person First

October 27, 2011

Griff Radulski

Sometimes I feel cloistered here - safe and spiritually grounded, but disengaged from the problems of the world. How to fit the real world into Oberlin? Well, for starters ...

Teaching

October 22, 2011

Joe Dawson

One needs laser sights attached to their clown wigs. Am I trying to do too much?

Pleased to meet me

October 16, 2011

Sophia Chen

Yeah, that title is a Replacements album. I thought it would make a great title for this post, which is a more detailed, list-y description of myself.

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