Oberlin Blogs

The beginning of my second semester of college– with a stunning twist.

Are you ready for this journey? Wonderful.

Yes, you read that title correctly.

Sometimes I look around at all the activities and people and places and art in my life and smile. Though I’m busy, I wouldn’t have it any other way.

If you’ve read my bio, you’ll know that I promised my readers a healthy dose of angst regarding declaring a major and deciding what to do with my life.

After only just discovering dance, I dived right in this summer and attended ADF, one of the largest summer dance intensives in the country. What resulted was one of the most empowering, exhausting and transformative experiences of my life.

I'm telling everyone I know lately: this is the hardest group of classes I've ever taken at Oberlin. And I LOVE them.

Two years ago I took my Spanish 101 final -- now I'm studying for finals at a Chilean university.

I just put in the last puzzle piece, and I feel complete.

With a busy class schedule, study away paperwork, and some new jobs, I've managed to keep myself very busy this semester! As I get ready for my study away program next semester, I try to recap my study away application experiences.

A blog post in which my linguistic anthropology class served as first class therapy.

What have we been up to in the classroom this semester? We hope we know.