Oberlin Blogs

Of Ohio weather, Candide, and the humor inherent in losing my voice.

A brief update. (read: I'm procrastinating and decided to write a blog post instead of my midterm paper.)

Title's pretty self-explanatory.

So, applicants to Oberlin will be notified of their acceptance in about a month, right? Gosh I'm glad I don't have to worry about that crap anymore.

Oberlin is more than living up to my expectations about both interdisciplinary material and extracurricular opportunities. However, I must say that I never expected the two to combine as they have in my life. That is to say, I'm finding that skills I've learned working on improv are helping me with my genre fiction writing.

Free New York Times, talented friends, and Oberlin's love of puzzles.

--Except, you know, without the whole lasting-twenty-years thing. And no ships or witches or gods. And an indoor swing. (The place we stayed was possibly the best part, which is not an insult to the Chicago College Improv Tournament--the place was just awesome.)

In my first week back I'm learning about the Supreme Court and revisiting the time I ate strange pig parts in Spain.

Sounds like the subject matter of a "You know you're an Oberlin student when..." joke, am I right?

This experience taught me that new and improved doesn't mean it's better. Faster is not always efficient. Cool is not always pertinent. Flashy can simply be annoying.

For 2010, resolve to learn more about Oberlin, try things that are uniquely Oberlin, experience things that you can only do in Oberlin.

"My manager told me, Mitch, don't use alcohol as a crutch. I can't use alcohol as a crutch because a crutch is something that helps me walk. Alcohol severely f____ up the way I walk. It's more like the step I didn't see." --Mitch Hedberg