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April 4, 2011
I tried on the chocolatier's life for size over break, and decided the scholar's life suited me better. Not that it wasn't fun.
Days 1-4
April 1, 2011
We have been staying up late, eating mostly home-cooked food, drinking a little, and seeing a terrific amount of improv in the last four days, and our trip is only about halfway over.
A Word to the Waitlisted
April 1, 2011
Two years ago, I wrote a detailed post about why we have a wait list that answered a number of questions you might have if you recently received a wait list letter from Oberlin, but I also wanted to comment specifically on this year's wait list.
Oberlin Fool
April 1, 2011
In which entomology and creativity meet for a three-part manifesto on foolish things.
Midterm Report, Part One
April 1, 2011
In which I gush profusely about how my morning classes are going this semester.
And After Graduation...
March 31, 2011
Grad school was an obvious possibility, as was finding a job and working for a year, getting more lab experience. But I wasn't sure if I wanted to remain so heavily married to the sciences, at least in the immediate future.
Letters away!
March 29, 2011
Yesterday afternoon I was privileged enough to witness the fourth annual "waving goodbye to the truck" day in the Admissions office. Let me tell you, it was quite the celebration.
Improv
March 28, 2011
I get up off of Matt's lap, there's guilt and often a little weird silence, and someone will say "Jesus, what was that?"
Oberlin Comics: Silliness and Sickness
March 27, 2011
Having a sense of humor helps a lot when you're sick. So do cartoons and silly puzzle-solving video games.
An open letter about College Orchestra
March 27, 2011
Dear Anna and Jeffrey 1 , First of all, sorry that I haven't kept in better touch. As you probably understand all too well, when something only has a due date of 'at some point,' it's easy to keep...
In Which I Wished for Oberlin to be Hogwarts
March 26, 2011
While I think of Oberlin as an alternate universe Hogwarts much of the time, we don't have owls delivering letters, though that would totally be the coolest.
Mo-zhe lee da o-sta-nuh da spuh too-ka?
March 26, 2011
Travels in Bulgaria, coming home to London. Things I relied on: my phrase book, the kindness of strangers, and painkillers.
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