Oberlin Blogs

After only just discovering dance, I dived right in this summer and attended ADF, one of the largest summer dance intensives in the country. What resulted was one of the most empowering, exhausting and transformative experiences of my life.

I'm telling everyone I know lately: this is the hardest group of classes I've ever taken at Oberlin. And I LOVE them.

Two years ago I took my Spanish 101 final -- now I'm studying for finals at a Chilean university.

I just put in the last puzzle piece, and I feel complete.

With a busy class schedule, study away paperwork, and some new jobs, I've managed to keep myself very busy this semester! As I get ready for my study away program next semester, I try to recap my study away application experiences.

A blog post in which my linguistic anthropology class served as first class therapy.

What have we been up to in the classroom this semester? We hope we know.

Whenever I tell someone outside of Oberlin that I'm a Comparative American Studies major, they have no idea what it is. I like to describe it as the study of how one's experience in the United States differs based on the many facets of their identity.

Well, here we are. It's already year two of my Oberlin adventure! In all honesty, sophomore year has been a little weird so far.

Most semesters I've told y'all about my course schedule so you can go back and see all the different classes I've been in. This one is special because it's the very last one of my undergraduate career. So let's dig in!

In the very beginning of the semester, I barely raised my elbow off the table when I had something to say, and when I realized my professors weren't calling on me probably because they couldn't see my hand, I adopted a new philosophy for class participation.

How random tidbits form the foundation of a good education.