Oberlin Blogs

The Oberlin blogs are produced by a team of current students, faculty, and staff who offer a variety of unfiltered perspectives about the Oberlin experience. We encourage you to interact with us as we explore Oberlin and document our adventures.

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  • Cooperative Shenanigans

    Griff Radulski

    Tales of head cooking in Keep Co-op's kitchen, plus the answers to all the questions you never thought to ask. What does a CLEC do? How many parades has the Keep Parade Master led? And just what is that cutout of Captain Picard doing in the walk-in?
  • Smooth Move

    Joe Dawson

    My friend Tino and I debuted our 'Single Ladies' dance, and Twister didn't rehash awkward puberty memories, ending the party with my tears and cries of emotional pain, like it very easily could have.

  • Sci-Fi Hall!

    Tess Yanisch

    Most colleges give their students a choice between traditional housing and fraternities or sororities. Oberlin, being Oberlin, has a different--and much wider--array of choices. Case in point: Sci-Fi Hall, where I now live.

  • Getting a House

    Zoe McLaughlin

    By the time we signed the lease, the one thing that I really remembered about the house we were going to rent was that it had a huge bathroom.
  • Hey roomie

    Joe Dawson

    Well, no. I'm not actually going to talk about sex. Not no never. I've always been a believer that sex is sort of like music. You don't talk about making it. If you're good at it you don't talk about it. If you talk about it, you're not good at it.
  • Hark is where the heart is

    Eli Goldberg

    I've spent the last week preparing to leave Harkness, the co-op where I've lived since my freshman year. So - to alleviate my own nostalgia, as well as give some info to folks who are filling out their housing forms - here's a little bit about Harkness.

  • Cribs.

    Karl Orozco

    One can learn a lot about a person's home. Even MTV knows that.

  • Missin' You

    Joe Dawson

    I've been haunted in my sleep, you've been starring in my dreams, school I miss you...