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December 1, 2008
Sometimes you have to remind yourself that your education is not just about classes, homework, papers and tests.
Four Thanksgivings: A Case Study in Evolving Independence
November 29, 2008
Although we were all a little homesick that day, there is something really special about the evolving sense of family you develop with the people you meet in your life after leaving home.
A Very Oberlin Thanksgiving
November 29, 2008
During fall orientation, while moving all my belongings from storage to my room, I got a phone call inviting me to Thanksgiving. And due to the sheer wonderfulness of this family, and their foresight, I accepted. I knew that my Thanksgiving would feel like home with the Albrechts.
Running Down the Dream (running down Professor Street, actually)
November 28, 2008
My running log for Tuesday, Nov. 11 says "cold run, 3.5 miles in 25:36. Ran through the Arb, ran to North Fields, back along Woodland." This is not the whole story.
Don't Let Go of the Coat
November 28, 2008
I'm keeping the coat, of course. There's a lot of life there.
At the 'Kid: Fellowship and Seasonal Gluttony
November 28, 2008
As a rule, I try to avoid soaking in sicky-sweet pools of sentimentality (diabetes does, after all, run in my family), but when I talk about Thanksgivings at Fairkid I can't help but get that...
It is all... an illusion
November 28, 2008
The real difference between seeing the dress and the show, though, is the audience. I've been in performance audiences lovingly called the "little audience that could," the small audiences that make up for lacking size with more emotion, appreciation, and gusto than a full house.
Doing the Layout
November 25, 2008
There's something to be said for a small liberal-arts college in a backwater hamlet a charming slice of small-town America that has two newspapers. And there's something more to be said a college that has two newspapers ( The Oberlin Review , The Oberlin Grape --for which I am a copy editor), three non-fiction magazines ( Wilder Voice , Vox , In Solidarity ), a literary journal (formerly The Plum Creek Review , formerly Enchiridion , now The Plum Creek Review --again), a genre-fiction magazine ( Spiral ) and doesn't have a journalism department.
Food!
November 25, 2008
As I write this (but not as I type this, because I'll be doing that later), I'm drinking egg nog left over from my dinner at Lord/Saunders. That's right, I ventured to south campus to eat dinner tonight.
Color theory
November 24, 2008
I don't think I'll ever be ready for winter. Each year, it seems to catch me by surprise.
Foreign adventures
November 24, 2008
Imagine someone handing you a check for $28,000 to go anywhere in the world to do whatever you'd most like to do in the year after college graduation.
My advice on the college essay
November 24, 2008
The college essay can be hard to write, and equally hard to give advice on. Here's my attempt on the latter.
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