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Mudd: Love it, hate it, use it.

January 19, 2011

Patrick Doherty

When I first came to Oberlin in the fall of 2007 - yes, I am old - I knew basic library skills, but never really had to use a library for an extensive research project. Thank you, California public education.

A Robo-pansy's Winter Term Project

January 19, 2011

Sophia Chen

I'm on campus working on making pedagogical-but-not-pedantic, extremely low-budget videos on various physics demonstrations with physics professor Aaron Santos. It bridges the gap nicely between humanities and science.

The blessings of Winter Term

January 13, 2011

Prof. Sebastiaan Faber

Winter Term still has the delightful feel of space and possibility that I am sure it was designed to have by the brilliant, counter-cultural minds that came up with it some time in the 1970s.

Life in Narnia: Winter Term 2011

January 12, 2011

Tess Yanisch

I'm going to be modeling the spread of information through social networks. Other people in the class are modeling swarms of locusts, a zombie infestation, and deformation of the magnetosphere by solar wind.

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