Oberlin Blogs

What's a typical day at Oberlin, you ask? There's no such thing! Here's a day in my life - Wednesday, April 12, 2017, to be exact.

*of the ones I've taken and think would also be fun for non-psychology majors.

Hint: It's two credits. Hint: It's in the Conservatory. Confession: It's not easy at all.

If you're still following my train of logic here, which I can imagine some of you aren't, then you are probably thinking to yourself: okay, I get that. Hardly anyone has the genetic background from only one race, and I've seen people who change their sexual orientation. Fine. But gender? Can't you only really be one or the other?

Including scientific studies on the effects of coffee; smart Obies; and my top seven coffee shops in the world.

It turns out that 140 characters isn't enough to say everything that I want to say about learning a foreign language. Whoda thunk it?

I arrived as this terrible realization: I'm going about college the absolute wrong way. I have failed as a freshman.

And by woes I mean mostly wins.

It helps to arm yourself with information that both supports what you already know and also challenges what you believe.

Pretty much the whole student body cares about community service, and we got good stuff done. We still need a deeper discussion about "interfaith," but that's next on the list . . . Many Oberlin students have a tendency to be dismissive of religion or openly religious classmates. I think they're responding more to the political end of religion (as we know it) than to any actual beliefs.

"Family" at Oberlin is a fluid term... it can mean the people who are related to you to as well as the people who are not.

I was surprised at the level of detail that goes into every inch of the piano. You can see why a good piano costs as much as a car - we spent a few classes repainting the dampers, aligning and glueing new felt to each damper (the shape of the felt changes through different registers of the piano), putting them back into the piano, and fitting them until they perfectly silenced the strings.