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March 24, 2011
A decidedly DIY guest post – if I combined my sheep-to-yarn skills with her yarn-to-clothes skills, we'd be unstoppable.
Winter Term On Campus: So Chill!
February 21, 2011
A pictorial essay of winter term in Oberlin (and a load of theater reviews)!
Soaking Up The Sun in Singapore
February 18, 2011
My Winter Term in (mostly) sunny Singapore learning Arabic and piano, and eating my mother's cooking.
The Beginning of the End
February 13, 2011
I am still here. Though I entered Oberlin with an expected graduation date of May 2016, my taking a semester off has delayed that until this upcoming semester. This reality took me a long time to accept and I have a lot of feelings about what "not graduating on time" means for me.
Oregon: Alis Volat Propriis
February 11, 2011
A Winter Term learning independence among sheep, chickens, and seven year olds.
Foreign and familiar.
February 7, 2011
Where I was, what I did, what I ate, and who I was with during my Winter Term in the Philippines.
Winter Term Recap
February 5, 2011
Purple potatoes, more cinnamon rolls, and why D&D is a conceptual model.
My Winter Term in Lists (part 2)
February 4, 2011
It's possible to teach English, completely in English, to people who speak no English.
Recapitulation
February 2, 2011
Looking back on a winter filled with books and histories, I think the award for creepiest anecdote goes to Charles de Lint, and his story of a creature who lived in refrigerators and sucked the yolk out of eggs. If the human in residence then refused to buy any more eggs, the creature would move out of the fridge and on to the vitreous fluid in said human's eyeballs. Good times.
West Coast/ Winter Term
February 1, 2011
Although not a Winter Term on the West Coast, unfortunately.
The Dissociated Press: An Antique Adventure
February 1, 2011
For three and a half weeks, we've slipped into an archaic apprenticeship system and become printer's devils. When else could I do something like this, if not during Winter Term?
Teaching English
January 31, 2011
There was also a bonus piece to the puzzle that they could collect if they found Bigfoot and told him some facts about himself.
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