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Clear filtersJanuary 6, 2013
The reading part of the course served as an introduction to American social support systems, while volunteering at Oberlin Community Services gave me an idea of what it might be like to be in a social services profession.
December 13, 2012
Booksbooksbooksbooksbooksbooks, or how I learned to stop worrying and do some good old-fashioned reading.
November 27, 2012
I arrived as this terrible realization: I'm going about college the absolute wrong way. I have failed as a freshman.
November 22, 2012
My first semester here, I wrote/drew a blog post about Thanksgiving. I'm building on that for my final semester.
November 19, 2012
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.
November 13, 2012
The Interfaith Day of Service is this Friday, 3:30 - 5:30. "Interfaith," in this case, means both among people of different religions and between people who are religious and those who aren't--an important factor to consider when dealing with Oberlin students.
November 7, 2012
Or, what #SoMeXco is all about and how our project is going to legit rock the world this weekend.
October 17, 2012
Did you know that in Urdu, there are at least two different ways of pronouncing 'th'? That English speakers are almost physically incapable of deepening their d's?
October 17, 2012
I tell you the story of how I came to be a student at Oberlin. And I want to hear yours too!
October 5, 2012
This year's alumni council weekend was kicked up about 10 notches, because it was the kickoff of Oberlin Illuminate, our seven-year comprehensive campaign to focus on the future of Oberlin.
September 29, 2012
My summer left me wanting a word that spans millennia. I need to talk about my brothers and sisters who populate the biosphere, who live lives beyond human knowing and become sediment when they die.
August 22, 2012
Broaching that scary subject of co-ed living. Fact: it was the greatest thing to ever happen to me.