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Crossed up

April 17, 2009

Joe Dawson

Why is it a concession stand? What exactly are you conceding? Except common sense in what a slice of damn pizza should cost.

Once upon a time I was an admitted student

April 11, 2009

Yitka Winn

I read that sentence again and again, then ran outside to my backyard, where my dad was doing some spring yard work and making pleasant small talk with the neighbors over the fence, and I promptly yelled to the skies, "I'm going to college!"

Registration: Woe?

April 10, 2009

Ma'ayan Plaut

Upon return to campus after spring break, students receive a pleasant reminder for fall registration. "What? This soon? I'm still slaving through a disastrous spring semester, everything is about to start moving twice as quickly as before, how could I even THINK of next fall?" you think.

Allow me to kibitz...

April 9, 2009

Joe Dawson

You pick up some Yiddish at Oberlin, for those of you coming from places like Columbia, Missouri, or those of you too young to remember Linda Richman.

Organs Get Me Pumped

April 7, 2009

Ma'ayan Plaut

For the record, I am already scared of this story, but hearing it retold in such a dark and echoey space, preluded by an organ piece played in a dark room, well, it was amazing and nerve-wracking. It was the coolest shoot I've even been involved in.

Why my blog is still about Oberlin

April 7, 2009

Alice Ollstein

Some seem to think I've strayed from the original purpose of the blog--giving prospies an unmediated account of Obie life--yet here are the ways my experiences here in Arizona have a great deal to do with far-off Oberlin.

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