Oberlin Blogs

Four Winter Terms, three projects, an incredible internship, a Broadway debut, and much, much more.

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.

新年快樂！ [Happy New Year!]

"I want to do it!" I said. "I love pit orchestras!"

...specifically my cultural and artistic worlds. And yes, that is the motto for Oberlin Shansi. Am I hinting at something?

In order to get an idea of the scope of Winter Term projects, we asked students to submit photos. We received shots from the top of Kilimanjaro to the Mad River Valley in Vermont; Prague to Washington, DC; Seattle to Oberlin. Then we made an album.

The most amazing, delicious, creative, fantastic and new things to do for the month of January.

A wordy and rambling entry rife with thoughts. There's also a picture thrown in to break things up.

I finished off my Winter Term with a foodie flourish and a fashion show... lots of photos included!

I've transitioned very quickly from seeing suffering and resilience to silliness and pleasure, and it's been difficult to rationalize and connect these two parts of my life.

In this post: the pseudo-triumphant return of John blogging, how freshmen walk, atrophied vocal chords, dinner parties, what I've been doing, what other people have been doing, shameless self-promotion, and much, much more.

It's possible to teach English, completely in English, to people who speak no English.