Oberlin Blogs

For my first blog post, I wanted to share one of my special secret spaces: my Pocahontas Tree (also known as Beacon Arbor)!

It's so easy to fix up a little routine and then stick to it, and so easy to forget that there's always so much more to explore.

An account of my involvement in, as well as my thoughts on, the current student activism taking place at Oberlin College and Conservatory.

Including photos of snow and studious students, but alas, no spring.

Obies are continuing to have conversations about progress. But in order for these conversations to be productive we must all commit to open-mindedness. It will be difficult, but ultimately necessary.

So yesterday was a pretty big deal. After a few weeks of increased anonymous racism and homophobia on our campus,...

I promise this is the worst pun I will make. For now.

Orientation! It is so so soon. Also: look out for me! I'm going to be out and doing exciting things and you're definitely involved.

The time has come to welcome Spring! Oberlin's recent good weather has made the campus even more beautiful than usual. Green is on my mind in another way, too, as my ecopsychology research intersects with Ecolympics, Oberlin's resource-use reduction competition.

My friend Abbie + Oberlin + gorgeous weather = an amazing time

There's more to see than the architectural facades viewbooks usually show you, and I think that these back angles are, if not as aesthetically pleasing, more visually interesting than the fronts.

I made the choice to stay on campus this fall break, partly to decompress from midterms and gear up for the next half of the semester, and partly just to embrace that deceptive stillness.