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May 9, 2018
My reflections on completing an honors thesis and thoughts about the celebration of undergraduate research at this year’s Senior Symposium.
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This will probably be a first post of many discussing the most terrifying word in an Oberlin student/young alum's vocabulary: networking.
January 22, 2012
Brought to you by a card-carrying member of the cool committee.
January 16, 2012
I wondered what literally burying my head in the sand would get me.
November 27, 2011
I cheer, you cheer, we all cheer for future!
October 31, 2011
Oberlin has been the small, tight-knit and stimulating community I have needed for the past several years. But I am on the brink of exploring life and discovering my specific place in the world — a both exciting and terrifying prospect.
October 6, 2011
In this post: rollin' like a G; how to succeed as Editor-in-Chief of an independent news organization without really trying; being elected to a board of directors when you just wanted to sit in on a meeting for the sole purpose of making witty side comments; thinking about things like an adult (even though it's terrifying).
October 5, 2011
If you have not woken up at 6:00 a.m. to take a standardized test in an industrial suburb of Cleveland before, I do not recommend doing so. It's like waking up at 6:00 a.m. to take a standardized test in an industrial suburb of Cleveland.
August 4, 2011
A rather existential blog post about internships. Have I scared you away from reading this yet?
July 17, 2011
WARNING: contains metaphorical language you may not yet be prepared to handle.
June 1, 2011
That, I suppose, is as fitting a metaphor as any for the end of my college time. We, in some small way, touch a place, it touches us, and then we move on.
March 31, 2011
Grad school was an obvious possibility, as was finding a job and working for a year, getting more lab experience. But I wasn't sure if I wanted to remain so heavily married to the sciences, at least in the immediate future.