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Winter Turmoil

July 30, 2014

Peter D'Auria

Reflections on friendship, Canada, the Oberlin experience, and wearing socks on your hands.

Wild 'n Wiser

January 21, 2014

Alexandria Cunningham

What does it mean to find yourself (metaphorically that is)? Is it your wild intuition? Is it your carefree personality? What makes self-discovery useful for you?

NaStoTraMo

February 16, 2013

Emily Wilkerson

When I was in my end-of-semester-only-able-to-think-in-wordplay stage, National Story Translating Month (a nod to NaNoWriMo) was the title I almost gave my winter term project, which was translating a German short story into English. Luckily, a friend intervened and I ended up calling it "Winter Term German Translation Intensive." Alas, sometimes professionalism has to win out over cleverness.

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