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Clear filtersMay 23, 2011
The tenth annual Big Parade: an afternoon of relaxation, ingenuity, and stilts.
May 16, 2011
A highlight: the dessert contest, with categories such as hottest dessert, coldest dessert, and most fractal (largest surface area to volume ratio) dessert.
April 30, 2011
A guest blog by my roommate David Fegley, covering things on Oberlin's campus that my knowledge simply doesn't cover.
April 19, 2011
Pizza cooking, folk music, contra dancing and farm working: this is your weekend on Oberlin.
April 10, 2011
There was an impressively multilingual pool of students, faculty, and visitors in King 106 last Thursday, for those who missed the amazing translation symposium. And if you did, come next year!
February 27, 2011
Excitingly enough, this year we purchased a second lion, so this year we were able to do really cool things like have the lions jump over one another. Plus, if you have more lions, everything just looks cooler.
January 26, 2011
Oberlin seems to be positioning itself as a destination city--a place people come to for dining, entertainment, and recreation.
December 27, 2010
A mini-stroll down this fall's art walk, a showcase of student artworks from the span of studio art classes. With many many photos!
December 26, 2010
Detailing the wide array of events that can happen on Oberlin's campus - within a single semester!
December 3, 2010
The fourth and final part of my four-part series on visiting Oberlin.
November 23, 2010
It's the same at Oberlin: you'll want to try, visit, attend, be a part of, witness as many different programs and events as possible. But some events are one-shot deals.
November 8, 2010
I was also prone to saying things like, "No, you have to tell me exactly where my feet and hands go in the turn, I can't just turn ."