Oberlin Blogs

If you're like me, and rely on holding a plastic cup in your hand to complete your Nancy Botwin aesthetic, let me assure you that there is nothing to fear.

My shifting thoughts over the last two weeks, with an eye to the coming admissions cycle.

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

I was studying the downfall of democracy in Chilean politics when I checked the polls for the first time on Election Night.

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

But the thing I perhaps struggle with most right now is how incredibly terrifying it is to exist in a moment that will be revisited time and again years from now, while being completely unsure of what is to come next.

Trump wants a nasty woman? I intend to be the nastiest woman I can be.

Well, this was my time. I was ready. My hair was cut, my ears were pierced, and I was armed with plenty of wild anecdotes.

With a busy class schedule, study away paperwork, and some new jobs, I've managed to keep myself very busy this semester! As I get ready for my study away program next semester, I try to recap my study away application experiences.

A blog post in which my linguistic anthropology class served as first class therapy.

Bears, iodine tablets, tortillas, bruised hips, beautiful views, and good company.

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