Oberlin Blogs

My decision to spend my undergraduate years at Oberlin wasn't quite the storybook tale, but it did end with a happily ever after.

The environment and community I've found here in Oberlin is one I wouldn't trade for a nine-foot Steinway.

Travel stories from Oberlin and Kunming.

How Admissions handles Travel Season: pranks.

Every time I encounter a prospective student visiting campus I am asked the inevitable question, "What is your least favorite thing about Oberlin?" Here's a post about how I think through that question.

My first thought when I opened the email saying that my show had been picked for the fall program was "Oh my god, I'm going to play the Jurassic Park theme song so many times."

Exploring the big ole country of Argentina.

Multiple airplanes, bus rides, subway adventures, and train trips made for an awesome fall break.

It's normal to be anxious about leaving home for college. It's also normal to be excited. I see leaving home as an opportunity.

After years of trying to fit music into my schedule, music is my schedule. How about that?

In a weird way, my first brush with Oberlin was like my birth: I was late (although not by 10 days) and my body was propelled through the air until I landed somewhere, and maybe that's why I loved it immediately.

The summer of 2015, the Oberlin Brass Quintet went on a four week long tour of China during the months of July and August.