Griff Radulski ’14

In the vast dark sea: a few bright fish.

“Biology? What are you going to do with that?” Here’s what I'm doing so far.

A highly opinionated tour of Oberlin's main drag. With lovely pictures by Ma'ayan!

Advice for you young whippersnappers, with some sentiment on the side.

For the procrastinators, from a procrastinator, with love for Oberlin and all you future Obies.

I'm taking steps to ensure that I will bounce.

I hope you were ready. My animals were!

My new friends have paws, hooves, horns, and attitude. I wish you could meet them, but pictures will just have to do.

For real this time. Here's why I'm leaving, and why I'm coming back.

The belated first post in a series about a uniquely Oberlin alchemy.

My summer left me wanting a word that spans millennia. I need to talk about my brothers and sisters who populate the biosphere, who live lives beyond human knowing and become sediment when they die.

I've been thinking a lot about seasons lately. My own year is really just beginning, as my time in Connecticut draws to a close and I prepare to move back to Ohio. It begins with a twice-annual ritual: packing cardboard boxes.

I'm leaving Oberlin for a semester, if not a year, and it's got me thinking again about what it means to be home. Over Winter Term I found a home in Monteverde, temporary, but a home nonetheless; and before I get all maudlin about leaving Oberlin, I wanted to share some snapshots of a beautiful month.

A run was built, some straw was bought, and the department officially had a flock of chickens.

Sometimes I feel cloistered here - safe and spiritually grounded, but disengaged from the problems of the world. How to fit the real world into Oberlin? Well, for starters ...

Orientating as a second-year, including pizza socials and all the classes. Well, all of mine, anyway. Apply to write about yours yourself!

Alumni - you'll remember, fondly, friends like these. Prospies, I guarantee that you will make some.

Pizza cooking, folk music, contra dancing and farm working: this is your weekend on Oberlin.

Oberlin is famous as a stop on the Underground Railroad, and was well-known for the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue. And despite Oberlin's reputation for godless liberalism (joking!), there are several vibrant communities on campus for students of faith. There's also a great multifaith service event coming up on Sunday.

Tales of head cooking in Keep Co-op's kitchen, plus the answers to all the questions you never thought to ask. What does a CLEC do? How many parades has the Keep Parade Master led? And just what is that cutout of Captain Picard doing in the walk-in?

One famous Oberlin grad came to study neuroscience and left with a degree in American history through folk music. Can you imagine his add/drop period woes?

The idea is simple. I have to make one thing every day - anything from a wolf hat with headphones sewn into the brim to the slightly ambiguous "important arrangements."