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Ruby Turok-Squire ’16

I’m Ruby, a second-year student from England, doing a double degree in music composition and something in the college. I still have no clue what — and I seem to like changing my mind most days on that. I grew up in the town of bicycles and old buildings, a.k.a. Cambridge, and in South Africa — my dad’s from there, and my grandparents are MPs in the ANC. So, I’m not all that British. But I did once use the queen’s toilet when I was five (long story), so I guess I do have a royal connection...

And here I am, in a tiny town in rural Ohio. How did that happen? Anyway, I think I love it. Oberlin’s a little bubble of good things and good people. So far, it has been a massive rollercoaster. There’s so much to do and far too few hours in the day. I am very, very happy to be here, studying things that I love and having an incredible time.

Oberlin in Ghana

July 21, 2013

The Oberlin Creativity and Leadership Fund gave me a grant of $2000 to start a clean water project in Dodome Awuiasu.

The Back of Steven Fry's Head

February 9, 2013

This is the primary view that I was afforded of the man behind the voice of the Harry Potter audiobooks, one night during Winter Term.

Foodie Revelations

January 25, 2013

Gingerbread, ice cream, curry, yoghurt and sushi.

The Life of Eggboy

January 15, 2013

Cactus versus weed.

Ratsy's and Catsys

October 18, 2012

Much fluff.

My Oberlin Birthday!

October 11, 2012

Featuring a very cool rock!

Dogsdogsdogsdogsgods!

September 27, 2012

Does what it says on the tin.

First Year Nerves

August 21, 2012

And why you should forget them.

Second Year 'Nerves', or Life Without 9am

August 21, 2012

Random summer nonsense.

Obie Talk Shuts Down

May 14, 2012

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. Albert Camus, Defence of Freedom, 1960. This morning, I learned...

Obie Talk

April 28, 2012

Oberlin's dirty secret, and why it must be stopped.

The Mystery

March 30, 2012

Things I just do not understand.

I MET HERBIE HANCOCK!

March 14, 2012

dum, dum, dum, doo doo doo dum, dum, dum....

General Life Update

March 12, 2012

Birthdays and fossas!

I am not a morning person, but I am a Cheerio person.

February 23, 2012

First choice plain, second choice honey nut.

Banffragilisticexpialidociousushi (Banff Part 2)

January 31, 2012

Huskies and cucumber rolls!! Mainly huskies.

Professors Say the Funniest Things

December 17, 2011

Also, a seagull.

Thank you for the food!

December 9, 2011

And the music, of course.

Womberlin

October 31, 2011

The womb chair, taken on the macro-scale, is an analogy for the soft, supportive, wonderful, dreamy bubble of Oberlin.

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