Oberlin Blogs

I want to be truthful about my whole experience: the joys, the triumphs, and the pain. No semester is ever all good or all bad.

Guess who's studying "abroad"!

For all of you high school seniors at home filling out your college applications right now, this is a blog post for you. It's written specifically to myself, but extrapolate my own advice into your own experiences.

To get those coveted tix, Obies aplenty nervously shook in their blundstones as they queued a massive single-file line across the first floor of Wilder.

I spent the first week of November in Boston, touring Harvard Divinity School as a Diversity & Explorations program participant, and attending the school's first Black Religion, Spirituality, & Culture Conference. But wait, this is the blog platform I write for Oberlin, where does Harvard come in? This is the story about how Oberlin got me to Harvard. (Maybe.)

Two years ago I took my Spanish 101 final -- now I'm studying for finals at a Chilean university.

I just put in the last puzzle piece, and I feel complete.

It's late November and the height of college-application season - and I'm here to help! Here's my advice, compiled neatly into categories and lists.

Shattered, but I'm not broken.

Reflections on the 2016 Election results.

I've heard it can be cathartic to write, so I was thinking about writing on this year's presidential election.

How to MacGyver your way through 630 dining hall meals a year.