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Clear filtersRecipes for Summertime, Part One
June 24, 2009
No matter how far away you go from Oberlin, you're still going to crave it.
Why Oberlin?
June 21, 2009
"You know," one of them said, "Chewbacca is the only one in his family with a normal name."
Have Diploma, Will Travel (Back to College?)
June 16, 2009
It turns out that for a pair of liberal college campuses, both boasting large feeder populations from elite(ist) NYC high schools, Cornell and Oberlin couldn't be more different.
"Snazzy" "Spicy" "Somnambulist" Sandwiches: Hot & Made to Order
June 14, 2009
I've been working at the Decafe ever since, my hours fluctuating every semester, but I still keep signing up for hours because I truly love working there. I love playing with food, I love making people happy with their food, and I love being creative. And here is where the adjective sandwiches come in.
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.
The Trappings of Relative Success
June 9, 2009
My own computer, grammar errors, and what it's like to be the only Anglo at the country's biggest Spanish paper.
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.
What's that about the bathrooms?
May 31, 2009
You may or may not have heard that the bathrooms are gender-neutral at Oberlin. This may or may not concern you, your parents, or someone else whom you hold dear.
Graduation: Suits, Sundresses and Speeches!
May 29, 2009
Say "commencement" and I think of the iconic hats in the air, traditions, pomp and circumstance, formality... But Oberlin students don't really DO traditional.
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