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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.

Postcards from Italy

August 31, 2011

Eli Goldberg

or, What I Did Over My Summer Vacation: archaeological fieldwork and an experiment in transatlantic blogging!

Hawaiian lasers smell like pineapple

June 23, 2011

Sophia Chen

I'm currently getting paid to spend my summer doing atmospheric physics research in Hawaii. That's right, I'm living life through pineapple-scented nose-filters. They're better than rose-colored glasses.

It is an honor!

May 17, 2011

Patrick Doherty

"This thesis...will explore debates concerning modernity [in the fin de siècle] through the reactions of the British and the French press to the 1900 Exposition Universelle."

Undergraduate Research in Science

March 25, 2011

Sophia Chen

Here's my attempt at making an FAQ about undergraduate research. Doing research as an undergraduate has been a big part of my education at Oberlin. I've never been completely sure if I want to pursue science as a career, so doing research has made the idea of a "career in science" less of an abstraction, and I know more about what I like and don't like about the scientific process.

Snow, Prop 8, and Chemistry

December 9, 2010

Zoe McLaughlin

It's a little-reported fact, but organic chemistry in general is actually composed mainly of working up your product. Doing the actual reactions takes very little time. It's all in the purification.

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