Aries Indenbaum ’09

My name is Aries Indenbaum, and I was born in Point Reyes, California, though I did most of my growing up in New Rochelle, NewYork. After graduating this past May, I found an awesome job in Oberlin working for the Office of Communications as a Web Fellow. My job concerns building and managing social media platforms as well as writing for various campus publications. Or, as my parents put it, “She does stuff on the internet.”

Outside of work, my life as a staff member is not so different from my life as a student. I’m teaching the Storytelling Exco to a group of wonderful people. Over the last semester, I’ve become much more involved with swing dance on campus, taking the Continuing Swing Exco and going to as many dances, workshops, and lessons as I can. In my spare time, I write speculative fiction: prose that describes the future to discuss the present.

In my time at Oberlin, I’ve been involved in a vast spectrum of activities: from choirs to improvised comedy, volunteering at a local farm to co-producing a noir radio show. My biggest commitment was OCircus, Oberlin’s circus, involving about a hundred jugglers, hula-hoopers, composers, acrobats, dancers and musicians. As a first-year student, I started as a clown; the next year, I was a House Manager; as a senior, I was the Ringleader.

Since my freshman year, I’ve been a tour guide for Oberlin Admissions. My last year, I worked as a Senior Intern, conducting interviews, exchanging emails with prospective students, and learning how Admissions works. I also worked as a Creative Writing Intern, giving information sessions for prospective majors, and an Academic Ambassador, a mentor for first-years who helped with class scheduling, registrations and adjusting to college.

I love running, candy, student bands, the Arboretum, ideas, my friends’ lives, music, different ways of learning and sharing, trees, robots, comics, stars, and politics.

I also love to make new friends. Like you.