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Clear filtersFinals week in a nutshell.
December 17, 2011
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
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
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.
The GREs Are: A) Stupid and Dumb, B) Dumb and Stupid, or C) All of the Above
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.
Word of the day: ipsilateral
September 28, 2011
One of teaching's satisfactions is learning new things from students.
Countdown to Commencement?
September 8, 2011
And then, all of a sudden, I was a fifth-year. Here we go again!
Secondary music lessons
August 14, 2011
To those of you non-Conservatory students who love music—secondary lessons beckon you!
FYS136: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Knowing
July 24, 2011
A great big lesson in Hi My Name Is College Now Stop Slacking. Alternatively, a great big welcome to Oberlin.
Holy FYSP!
June 26, 2011
It feels like just yesterday I was choosing a First Year Seminar of my very own.
Is College Hard?
June 6, 2011
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.
On 20th-Century Oberlin History - Musically Speaking
May 21, 2011
Any questions you may have had about the musical studies major, the history of jazz at Oberlin, or original research can and will be answered in this post by the incomparable Anna Ernst '10!
No Sweat
May 15, 2011
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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