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Clear filtersOctober 26, 2010
My satisfaction with the person I'd be living with for the next year wasn't a lucky fluke, it was widespread - possibly even universal.
October 11, 2010
A healthful living environment contributes to the idea of community, and creates a type of neighborhood...
September 26, 2010
Most colleges give their students a choice between traditional housing and fraternities or sororities. Oberlin, being Oberlin, has a different--and much wider--array of choices. Case in point: Sci-Fi Hall, where I now live.
September 18, 2010
Please note the lovely framed Animorphs poster and the lovely Penang flag.
September 5, 2010
I thought I would have a pretty relaxing week, during which I could do things like unpack, hang up posters, and read all the YA novels that are still on my 'to read' list. That's not what's happened.
August 25, 2010
The transfer hall is this great jumping-off place. It's where new students that have attended another college can come get their bearings together and not feel like they are alone with their war-stories of places that didn't fit them.
July 31, 2010
By the time we signed the lease, the one thing that I really remembered about the house we were going to rent was that it had a huge bathroom.
July 21, 2010
Well, no. I'm not actually going to talk about sex. Not no never. I've always been a believer that sex is sort of like music. You don't talk about making it. If you're good at it you don't talk about it. If you talk about it, you're not good at it.
June 21, 2010
There's the thumbs, but there's also a crude representation of a llama (apparently) to make a proposal and knocking in the air to signal agreement with a statement.
June 5, 2010
I've spent the last week preparing to leave Harkness, the co-op where I've lived since my freshman year. So - to alleviate my own nostalgia, as well as give some info to folks who are filling out their housing forms - here's a little bit about Harkness.
June 3, 2010
Then, abruptly, the year ended. Everyone went home.
April 21, 2010
Housing registration, class registration, and how I (probably) picked my major.