Alice Ollstein ’10
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What's an Adventure? The view from 5 years out
All life is an adventure, and moving to a new city, building/finding a new community, and scrambling to make it in a uncertain field definitely qualifies.
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I Think We'll Make It After All
Even in the worst economy ever, we ex-Obies find a way. Glimpses of the post-college lives of the Class of 2010.
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Real Life Begins
From job hunting to house hunting to cheap cultural activity hunting, I don't think I'm in Kansas (or Oberlin) anymore.
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No Regrets
My goal was to graduate without any lingering "I should have done X, Y and Z!" I (almost) succeeded.
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Finals Week Woes
Why is it that the one time of year we're too busy to do anything we are presented with a plethora of incredible performances and events?
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Geeking Out, or "So you think you're a Harry Potter nerd"
I didn't win. But I was proud to remember both the 3 D's of apparition AND Ron's favorite Quidditch team.
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Anything for Art
Finally, after almost 20 hours of waiting, I had original paintings by Goya and Toulouse Lautrec in my hands.
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Ch-ch-ch-changes
A few changes around campus since my freshman year, for better and for worse.
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"Come on down to Cleveland Town, everyone..."
Upon learning I attend Oberlin, many people ask if I go into Cleveland every weekend. Usually my facial expression is enough of an answer.
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A glorious return: Commencement Week shenanigans
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.
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Desert Dynamics
A few things I learned on yesterday's patrol with the Samaritans, a group that sends a group out to the desert every day looking for migrants in need of water, food, medicine or simply a friendly face.
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Saints and Sinners: Two Days in Altar
To learn the routes of migration, we did in a couple of easy hours what takes most migrants four excruciating days.
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Students and Samaritans
What if good intentions and a strong desire to "make a difference" aren't enough?
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A Guest in My Own House
Living with a host family is a difficult adjustment after two and a half years in Oberlin's dorms.
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Vulnerability and Culpability
Drugs, thugs and racism: a smidgen of what I've learned so far on the border.
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Tucson isn't Oberlin, and other orientation lessons
Tomorrow marks both the end of the Border Studies program orientation and the end of Bush's reign. Now the real work begins.
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Obies in the Eternal City
I had the distinct pleasure of flying to Rome for fall break to see my S.O., who is studying Classics there, and I got to employ a lot of what I've learned in classrooms and the coops during my stay.
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Planning Your Visit
To my delight, a prospie e-mailed me last week and asked if she could spend some time with me during her visit to Oberlin. We had a good time, but here's how to have an even better stay.
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Special Topics in Environmental Frustration
When confronted with wastefulness and hostility, what's an Obie to do? It ain't easy being green...
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Sand to Snow: the West Coast to Midwest transition
I received a request to elaborate on my experience going from a big, urban California environment to Oberlin, Ohio...so here goes!
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Welcome to My Oberlin!
A bit about how I ever left L.A. sunshine for Ohio and why I'm so glad I did.
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Going Green
My packed day of activities this weekend was a perfect example of Oberlin's environmentalism, and I'm glad there were a ton of prospective students (aka prospies) here to see them.
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Dress in drag and do the hula
All about Drag Ball, arguably the biggest yearly event at Oberlin.