Oberlin Blogs

The ExCo that taught me how to do it right.

Quick, name Oberlin's school colors. If you said crimson and gold, you owe me $5.

That, I suppose, is as fitting a metaphor as any for the end of my college time. We, in some small way, touch a place, it touches us, and then we move on.

The proposal llama is one of several esoteric hand symbols used during co-op discussions at Oberlin. Here is the story of how it originated.

The tenth annual Big Parade: an afternoon of relaxation, ingenuity, and stilts.

I learned that storing freshly spray painted lanterns in your room is usually a bad idea and I learned how to eat chicken feet.

Any questions you may have had about the musical studies major, the history of jazz at Oberlin, or original research can and will be answered in this post by the incomparable Anna Ernst '10!

Alexandra Anemone is not a character from Finding Nemo. She's a badass.

Alumni - you'll remember, fondly, friends like these. Prospies, I guarantee that you will make some.

A highlight: the dessert contest, with categories such as hottest dessert, coldest dessert, and most fractal (largest surface area to volume ratio) dessert.

The Romans would offer bread and circuses to distract the public from real issues and keep them happy. Similarly, I am writing about pleasant things to avoid working on finals.

In which a professor wrestles with time, flirts with an existential crisis, and wins the lottery.