Oberlin Blogs

Well, not really. But it might. (Finn's looking for scholarships, after all.)

Merit-based, need-based, and all those annoying things the guidance counselors are going on about, but simplified, using Glee.

For 2010, resolve to learn more about Oberlin, try things that are uniquely Oberlin, experience things that you can only do in Oberlin.

(I know I've mentioned my difficulty with titles before.) Who knows that this won't be incredibly valuable later in life? Or that it won't be, and I'll just be thankful I did it anyway? Or that I'll regret it and it will serve as motivation for me to get going and choose a major, since time for me to do so is rapidly running out?

I am taking this month of no assigned obligation to get lots and lots of work done on my senior cinema project, which is making a stop motion animation of a variety of soup recipes.

Regular decision deadline is next Friday! Here are answers to some questions common at this time of year.

My (many) little projects are intended to turn me into a well-rounded dilettante--while maintaining my priorities, of course. Unrelated but pretty pictures included.

This blog's purpose: to motivate Karl off of this computer chair and start working on his Winter Term project.

"My manager told me, Mitch, don't use alcohol as a crutch. I can't use alcohol as a crutch because a crutch is something that helps me walk. Alcohol severely f____ up the way I walk. It's more like the step I didn't see." --Mitch Hedberg

If I accomplish this whole list, I deserve a cookie. Or two.

Keeping vegetarian in Oberlin is easy. In rural Nicaragua? Not so much.

It's not the traditional research position that biochem majors normally pursue, but then again, I'm not a typical biochem major.