Oberlin Blogs

Excerpts + thoughts about my senior recital

If you applied Early Decision for the class of 2015, here's a small distraction from the long, painful wait by the mailbox! And if you're working frenetically on your Regular Decision essays, hopefully this will serve as inspiration ... or maybe a model of what not to do ...

During finals, study breaks are most necessary. Sometimes they're planned, sometimes they're surprises, but they're always welcome.

In which I explain Oberlin birthdays and share a recipe for chocolate cake for a crowd.

I am beginning to think of Oberlin as a secret society, or a religion, some bizarre underground cult. Once you discover that it exists, you can't go anywhere without running into fellow initiates.

I am happy to say that this Thanksgiving I am thankful for my wonderful Oberlin friends and my Oberlin family. I don't know what I would do without them. Let Fiercegiving endure forever!

You should read this, especially if you don't like people.

A post and a toast to families away from families: Thanksgiving is what you make of it. Or make for it.

My first time in snow EVER! I think I'm entitled to be obnoxiously excited.

The fourth and final part of my four-part series on visiting Oberlin.

A sampling of Thanksgiving, in which my senses are assaulted, a friend's family welcomes, feeds, and houses some Obies, and I despise buses.

My friend Ali is having an art show... and I'm close enough to the process to inhale the paint fumes and clay dust.