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From Yarn to Garment X

March 24, 2011

Ida Hoequist

A decidedly DIY guest post – if I combined my sheep-to-yarn skills with her yarn-to-clothes skills, we'd be unstoppable.

The Beginning of the End

February 13, 2011

Helena Thompson

I am still here. Though I entered Oberlin with an expected graduation date of May 2016, my taking a semester off has delayed that until this upcoming semester. This reality took me a long time to accept and I have a lot of feelings about what "not graduating on time" means for me.

Recapitulation

February 2, 2011

Christine Chang

Looking back on a winter filled with books and histories, I think the award for creepiest anecdote goes to Charles de Lint, and his story of a creature who lived in refrigerators and sucked the yolk out of eggs. If the human in residence then refused to buy any more eggs, the creature would move out of the fridge and on to the vitreous fluid in said human's eyeballs. Good times.

Teaching English

January 31, 2011

Zoe McLaughlin

There was also a bonus piece to the puzzle that they could collect if they found Bigfoot and told him some facts about himself.

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