Oberlin Blogs

For a long time, the college experience was all about "big" to me.

Honestly, when I was trying to decide on my post-high school plans, I never even thought about going to a school like Oberlin College.

Have any questions about Oberlin? Ask your questions and we'll get to them in one of the three virtual panels we're hosting this fall!

A few words for prospective conservatory students on how to succeed at your Oberlin audition.

QuestBridge finalists, join us here on Wednesday, December 9th at 6pm for a live streaming Q&A session!

Come for the albino squirrels and story of how I came to Oberlin, stay for the pug and goat photos at the end of this post! (Or just skip down to the pug photos!)

My decision to spend my undergraduate years at Oberlin wasn't quite the storybook tale, but it did end with a happily ever after.

I was officially sold when the tour guide described Oberlin as a place where being weird is celebrated and loved.

In a weird way, my first brush with Oberlin was like my birth: I was late (although not by 10 days) and my body was propelled through the air until I landed somewhere, and maybe that's why I loved it immediately.

Being at Oberlin has truly made me engage directly with my school community that I most definitely would have circumvented had I stayed in my city, where I would've relied on my own pre-existing knowledge of my surroundings to find something to do.

I walked in with no expectations. No pre-conceived ideas of what Uni would be like. No idea of how my life was going to change.

The fall 2015 virtual student panels are here! Get your questions ready!