Oberlin Blogs

To be fair to my parents, they did tell me most of this, but it was easy to dismiss their experiences as being far removed from my own. As your peer, I hope that this will be useful to you and will help you to put yourself in the right frame of mind for what you should expect come September, without feeling overwhelmed.

In Oberlin, I think professors are kinda like celebrities. And these are the ones I go goo-goo eyed over.

The class of 2015 made us such awesome videos demonstrating their enthusiasm for Oberlin. Watch them!

My summer in Oberlin: a wonderland of busy.

It feels like just yesterday I was choosing a First Year Seminar of my very own.

I'm currently getting paid to spend my summer doing atmospheric physics research in Hawaii. That's right, I'm living life through pineapple-scented nose-filters. They're better than rose-colored glasses.

Oberlin has a lot of cooperatives, also known as co-ops. People pool their resources and help one another. Until about midway through my second semester, though, I hadn't really appreciated just how...

My other life.

My final farewell...

Yes, college is expensive, but you have some control over how expensive.

Actually I'm crazy busy, but whatever! It's summertime!

This summer, I'm not just odd-jobbing: I'm also nannying, spinning poi, watching my brother play baseball, reading . . . And other people are doing other things!