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“What comes next?” The Arduous Process of Applying for Graduate School
“What comes next?” I cringe every time someone asks me some version of this question.
Learning and Labor: A Busy Oberlin Semester
Sometimes I look around at all the activities and people and places and art in my life and smile. Though I’m busy, I wouldn’t have it any other way.
The Pre-Practice Process (A Morning in the Life of an Oberlin Football Player)
It is 5:30 in the morning on October 15, 2017.
Notes from the Opera Pit
My experience in the opera pit for Oberlin's The Marriage of Figaro.
Out with a Bang: Percussion at Oberlin
An overview of the classical percussion department at Oberlin.
College Journey: Chicago --> Oberlin
How does a young brother like myself get to Oberlin? More importantly, why?
We Are the Blogs: You Will Be Assimilated
If you had told a wee 16-year-old Ruth that she would be moving to a small town surrounded by a LOT of corn in just two short years, I would not have believed you, not even for a hot second.
Comparing Mountains and Molehills
A fall break trip to a big university in Colorado helps me reflect on my small-school experience.
Budapest.
For the past two months, I've been living my dream of studying abroad in Budapest. It's been everything that I hoped it would be, and nothing like I expected.
Orientation Feelings
I remember so clearly my mom driving away that first day. She gave me a big hug and got in the rental car. I leaned through the window to give her a kiss on the cheek. It was one of the clearest moments of change in my life, and I felt it in my chest the way you do when you're about to cry.
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