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Clear filtersSometimes I pretend to be a photographer
July 30, 2009
Sometimes, when I have just a bit of extra time on my hands, I take out my camera and see what interesting sights I can capture.
Dining hall conversations
July 21, 2009
Once we'd finished eating, we parted ways, and I expected not to see her again, unless we wound up in a class together somewhere down the road.
Information through the ages
July 6, 2009
There are two main types of social life in Oberlin: (1) the inexpensive, and (2) the not-so-inexpensive.
Recipes for Summertime, Part One
June 24, 2009
No matter how far away you go from Oberlin, you're still going to crave it.
Parallel Universes
June 10, 2009
I have just passed the two week point of being home for the summer. And since this is an Oberlin blog, this is about what's different at my summer home and my Oberlin home.
I Disagree
June 4, 2009
In this post: potentially job ending disagreement, politics at Oberlin, liberal ironists vs. liberal revolutionaries, debates to stay up late for, Fox News, and please don't fire me .
A glorious return: Commencement Week shenanigans
June 3, 2009
There's a flower shop on S. Main that writes a different name on their sign every day, and if you are blessed with that particular name, you get a free flower. I had never seen my own name until this past Commencement.
We Are the Hand Claps
May 21, 2009
If there is one thing I learned how to do better at Oberlin that wasn't advertised at first was that I am now very good at applause.
Done.
May 18, 2009
Really, the only solution was to stay up until around 3:00 AM, listening to hit songs from the nineties, reading picture books, and learning the proper way to put on bangles.
Life in a Cardboard Box
May 14, 2009
Remember how I mentioned there are all these distractions during reading period and finals? Ah, yes, there is another one I failed to mention earlier, and that is PACKING.
The Semester in Numbers
May 10, 2009
Two more years until I graduate. (Well, three more semesters to be precise, but either way I'm over the hump.) Good thing? Bad thing? There's a saying I've heard a couple of times up in central Maine that I love: "Tough tellin', not knowin'." But I'm enjoying the ride more and more every day. Ayuh.
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