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Clear filtersFebruary 21, 2014
A Winter Term recap of the Practicum in Museum Education course at Oberlin's Allen Memorial Art Museum.
December 13, 2013
As if you needed an excuse to listen to the new Beyoncé album, anyway.
June 19, 2013
Do you have the pre-orientation jitters? Are you at all anxious to leave home and come live in a place you've probably never spent a formidable amount of time at before? Do not fear! I am here to try and alleviate some of that anxiety.
April 11, 2013
A tour of my top (mostly food) destinations. Hope you're hungry.
March 18, 2013
The past few weeks at Oberlin have been very hard, but they have reminded me why I care so much about this place and the work that we all do, on a variety of levels, on this campus.
March 5, 2013
So yesterday was a pretty big deal. After a few weeks of increased anonymous racism and homophobia on our campus,...
January 6, 2013
The reading part of the course served as an introduction to American social support systems, while volunteering at Oberlin Community Services gave me an idea of what it might be like to be in a social services profession.
November 17, 2012
"Family" at Oberlin is a fluid term... it can mean the people who are related to you to as well as the people who are not.
October 17, 2012
There are kittens. Kittens that you can touch. A FIVE MINUTE WALK AWAY FROM CAMPUS. How awesome is that? Upon learning this past summer that there were kittens right near campus that were being taken...