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Finals week in a nutshell.

December 17, 2011

Sophia Chen

boy you got my heartbeat runnin' away, beatin like a drum and it's comin your way, can't you hear that boom badoom boom boom badoom boom boom badoom boom bass, boom badoom boom boom badoom boom he got that super bass

When I'm Home, Everything Seems to Feel Right

December 15, 2011

Emily Wilkerson

In order to give myself a break from sitting at my computer, paralyzed by my probably needless anxiety, I will write about a simpler time, a time when finals were a distant specter and winter break was eons away - last week.

My last first semester

October 6, 2011

Sophia Chen

Why do I feel like a crazy person? I am a senior now. Oberlin, even with the all-nighters, the snowy Aprils, the death icicles looming on my roof, mouthfuls of saltless co-op lentils, has been nurturing me this whole time with arms wide open. Oberlin and I have been spooning for three and a half years, and I'm about to be kicked out of bed into a pair of knobbly hobbit-shoes.

Holy FYSP!

June 26, 2011

Chinwe Okona

It feels like just yesterday I was choosing a First Year Seminar of my very own.

Is College Hard?

June 6, 2011

Tess Yanisch

What is "hard"? The pace is faster in college than in high school, but it's mostly notable in comparison. For example, in the first three weeks of Research Methods, we covered at least half of the material in my year-long A.P. Statistics course.

No Sweat

May 15, 2011

Joe Dawson

Throw in stress for something that actually matters, like finals, and I'm toast. I'll be in bed at midnight, eyes open until 1:30, and awake when the sun comes up at 7.

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