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February 11, 2011
The only academic part of my semester is honors. No classes, no ExCos, no nothin'. Theoretically, this should make my honors process much less stressful to endure.
Indecisiveness: An Oberlin Tradition
February 11, 2011
One famous Oberlin grad came to study neuroscience and left with a degree in American history through folk music. Can you imagine his add/drop period woes?
Tis the season to be reading (applications)
February 10, 2011
I'm reading roughly over 1,100 applications before mid March.
"I know the moon / And this is an alien city."
February 8, 2011
London, week one. It's sort of like Ohio except not at all. For instance, flowers are growing.
Foreign and familiar.
February 7, 2011
Where I was, what I did, what I ate, and who I was with during my Winter Term in the Philippines.
Smooth Move
February 6, 2011
My friend Tino and I debuted our 'Single Ladies' dance, and Twister didn't rehash awkward puberty memories, ending the party with my tears and cries of emotional pain, like it very easily could have.
SnOberlin
February 5, 2011
In which a Californian attempts to explain weather in Ohio to those people who live in a warm climate.
Winter Term Recap
February 5, 2011
Purple potatoes, more cinnamon rolls, and why D&D is a conceptual model.
My Winter Term in Lists (part 2)
February 4, 2011
It's possible to teach English, completely in English, to people who speak no English.
Recapitulation
February 2, 2011
Looking back on a winter filled with books and histories, I think the award for creepiest anecdote goes to Charles de Lint, and his story of a creature who lived in refrigerators and sucked the yolk out of eggs. If the human in residence then refused to buy any more eggs, the creature would move out of the fridge and on to the vitreous fluid in said human's eyeballs. Good times.
The Dissociated Press: An Antique Adventure
February 1, 2011
For three and a half weeks, we've slipped into an archaic apprenticeship system and become printer's devils. When else could I do something like this, if not during Winter Term?
West Coast/ Winter Term
February 1, 2011
Although not a Winter Term on the West Coast, unfortunately.
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