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Fresh Experiences

October 11, 2009

Marsha Lynn Bragg

Each day in Oberlin offers a fresh experience that is not colored by memories of time or place. I hope to be able to share some of these fresh experiences.

Food and Friends

October 9, 2009

Sam Jewler

I promise I won't spend the rest of the year blogging about beer and circular logic, but it seemed like a good place to start.

Hot Cross Buns

October 8, 2009

John West

In this post: notes on being double-degree, funny looks, historical performance, me on a soapbox (figuratively), rants on authorial intent, more apocryphal stories, why I play the recorder, musical temperament, A440 Hz, the varieties of recorders, a picture, clips of my junior recital, and Tom DeLay dancing with the stars.

Why Creative Writing?

October 6, 2009

Aries Indenbaum

The truth behind one of the best reputations in the country. Featuring: fangirling over professors, cursing, fear, what a workshop is, and Writing versus English.

Enviro-mentality

October 5, 2009

Joe Dawson

The class, and the Environmental Studies department, is not Environmental Science, which is the big mistake in assumption that I made going into it. I'm glad I did.

Cleveland, or And then I ate food

September 29, 2009

Zoe McLaughlin

Did you know there's more than one type of bok choy? There's Taiwanese bok choy and baby bok choy and all these other leafy green vegetables that look like bok choy but aren't called bok choy.

The Road Not Taken

September 27, 2009

John West

In this post: the Montreal International Recorder Competition, recorders that look like plumbing, apocryphal stories, adorable taxi drivers, the death of punk, and Glenn Beck killing a frog.

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