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100 Awesome Amazing Fantabulous Things
I'm celebrating my 100th blog post on the Oberlin blogs, which includes a FABULOUS CONTEST with a sweet prize.
This is the first year of the rest of your lives
Your parents aren't lying, college IS the bee's knees and all that. I'm just making sure you start it off right, okay!?FYS136: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Knowing
A great big lesson in Hi My Name Is College Now Stop Slacking. Alternatively, a great big welcome to Oberlin.Like riding a bike
I am proof that not all liberal arts college students get everywhere by bike. Now I am finally learning how to ride one.
Open Letter
To the Class of 2015: a list of minor and not-so-minor regrets I have that I hope you won't. (It's really not that bad, and you'll survive perfectly well even if you completely ignore this list.) Love, Christine.THE Professor List
In Oberlin, I think professors are kinda like celebrities. And these are the ones I go goo-goo eyed over.
Show Us Your Enthusiasm!
The class of 2015 made us such awesome videos demonstrating their enthusiasm for Oberlin. Watch them!
Holy FYSP!
It feels like just yesterday I was choosing a First Year Seminar of my very own.
Hawaiian lasers smell like pineapple
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.
On (the Bike) Co-op(s)
Oberlin has a lot of cooperatives, also known as co-ops. People pool their resources and help one another. Until about midway through my second semester, though, I hadn't really appreciated just how
How to Save Money in College
Yes, college is expensive, but you have some control over how expensive.