Oberlin Blogs

Thousands of miles from Oberlin, it's still all around me.

As someone who knows what it's like to trudge through a protracted winter, let me assure you that Oberlin's climate is a piece of cake.

I received a request to elaborate on my experience going from a big, urban California environment to Oberlin, Ohio...so here goes!

We Oberlin students are a lucky bunch. The campus provides an impossible number of lectures, exhibits, readings, and performances, and we are burdened with the enviable luxury of bouncing around from event to event, gorging ourselves on art and music and culture until exhaustion necessitates a break.