Oberlin Blogs

As a veteran of several of their programs I am still completely obsessed with the Center's summer camps, but I'm a bit too old to be at WKU every summer. Instead, I've graduated to camp counselor, and this time to a roving group of creative teens at a film and media camp right here in Oberlin.

And I make bad jokes.

The fairy godmothers are actually hillbillies, the prince is something of a dud, and the mice are a lot more concerned about where they're going to get their next meal than about anything that's going on with Cinderella.

Inside: Karl's summer internship at the Bread & Butter Collective, a silkscreen studio run by Oberlin alums, and all things related.

What do you do when you're broke and working an unpaid internship? Hint: begging your parents for money is only step one.

What I learned at Oberlin and how, four years later, it relates to my job.

Famous Oberlin Alums to make your parents go "Ooh!"

With commencement looming, have I already entered the "abyss"?

What be the ferocious and intangible 3-2 Engineering Program, you ask? Aye, for one as young as you, it is a thing most mysterious and, again, intangible. Sit down, children, and I'll tell you a story that would burn the hair right off your chest to hear.

See Alice network with alums. See Alice shamelessly beg for a job. See Alice hobnob with reporters from Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and National Geographic.

A wordy and rambling entry rife with thoughts. There's also a picture thrown in to break things up.

My last day interning at TIME magazine was also my best day. One lesson learned: not all US senators are larger than life.