Lilah Drafts-Johnson ’18

Why commit hours of your precious time in college to practice a sport?

My reflections on completing an honors thesis and thoughts about the celebration of undergraduate research at this year’s Senior Symposium.

With less than one hundred days until I graduate, my mind as a second-semester senior is fixated on getting everything I can out of the remainder of my time at Oberlin.

The best piece of advice I received in high school, and how I've applied it to my life at Oberlin.

Helpful tips and tricks for making the most of your Winter Term.

“Think one person can change the world?”

Reflections on spring semester junior year and fall semester senior year.

A fall break trip to a big university in Colorado helps me reflect on my small-school experience.

On-campus jobs and more!

Student-athlete, North-South, and other intersections of identity.

My Oberlin waitlist experience.

All-American Awards, history making performances, and sushi.

I take on an Oberlin semester without my sidekick and roommate.

If my Winter Term is an indication of how the semester will go, it will be a crazy but fulfilling semester.

As I settle back into a community I will be with for the next 1.5 years, I want to pay homage to the places and people who have hosted me this past year.

For the student-athlete considering going abroad -- I say go for it.

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

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

Study abroad has made me think a lot about the word "home."