Oberlin Blogs

"An honorable and a friendly memory"

I like stories much more than I like lists, so here are four of them in two installments.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. Albert Camus, Defence of Freedom, 1960. This morning, I learned...

Oberlin doesn't have ideal running weather all the time, but there are truly beautiful days, usually in the fall or early spring. We had a string of these last week and I decided to document my Sunday jog with a camera.

London is such an inexhaustible city that there's never going to be enough time to feel you've seen it all.

Oberlin's dirty secret, and why it must be stopped.

For those of you who got here by googling "Oberlin Super Smash major" you're at the right place. Read on.

Yep, sometimes it hurts to be sensitive.

Through the magic of circus networks and the hard work of our administrators, OCircus! was able to offer heavily-discounted tickets and a free bus ride to Cleveland to Oberlin students who wanted to go see Cirque du Soleil. Of course everyone did.

In which my hesitancy in both precludes me from a career in either.

Perhaps it is strange that an Oberlin blogger should write about almost not coming to Oberlin, especially in a month when prospective students are trying to make their decisions about which school to attend, but I think it's important that you know that Oberlin does not have an aura of inevitability for everyone.

The Clinton Global Initiative brought together over 1000 students, social entrepreneurs, and changemakers from around the world to Washington, DC, this weekend. But first, thoughts on the Hunger Games.