Oberlin Blogs

By the time we signed the lease, the one thing that I really remembered about the house we were going to rent was that it had a huge bathroom.

Well, no. I'm not actually going to talk about sex. Not no never. I've always been a believer that sex is sort of like music. You don't talk about making it. If you're good at it you don't talk about it. If you talk about it, you're not good at it.

I've spent the last week preparing to leave Harkness, the co-op where I've lived since my freshman year. So - to alleviate my own nostalgia, as well as give some info to folks who are filling out their housing forms - here's a little bit about Harkness.

One can learn a lot about a person's home. Even MTV knows that.

I've been haunted in my sleep, you've been starring in my dreams, school I miss you...

Why live off campus?

Way to rain on my Labor Day parade, Ohio. Even after four years, I still don't understand your weather patterns.

There is no required reading for freshmen at Oberlin, but a quick flip through Lord of the Flies could be real helpful.

You may or may not have heard that the bathrooms are gender-neutral at Oberlin. This may or may not concern you, your parents, or someone else whom you hold dear.

Thankfully, there were senior members who talked me through the best ways to peel garlic, fry potatoes, and make an omelet. Never would I have imagined that a group of students could be efficient and capable enough to orchestrate what functioned like a self-contained dining hall.

Remember how I mentioned there are all these distractions during reading period and finals? Ah, yes, there is another one I failed to mention earlier, and that is PACKING.

There's something cool about occupying spaces that have so much history in them, so many Obies who've lived there in the past...