Oberlin Blogs

Let's talk about the weather - won't this be exciting?!

My family comes to Oberlin and my pug does not, I take my mom and brother to a co-op lunch and my brother to the 'Sco, and I visit Slow Train four times in a single weekend.

I looked back at my parents, checking in that it was ok to talk to strangers. They conceded with their eyes that as long as I was in Ohio it was also fine to get into windowless vans and take candy from old women in tall pointed hats.

A highly opinionated tour of Oberlin's main drag. With lovely pictures by Ma'ayan!

A Winter Term recap of the Practicum in Museum Education course at Oberlin's Allen Memorial Art Museum.

Do you have the pre-orientation jitters? Are you at all anxious to leave home and come live in a place you've probably never spent a formidable amount of time at before? Do not fear! I am here to try and alleviate some of that anxiety.

A tour of my top (mostly food) destinations. Hope you're hungry.

The past few weeks at Oberlin have been very hard, but they have reminded me why I care so much about this place and the work that we all do, on a variety of levels, on this campus.

So yesterday was a pretty big deal. After a few weeks of increased anonymous racism and homophobia on our campus,...

The reading part of the course served as an introduction to American social support systems, while volunteering at Oberlin Community Services gave me an idea of what it might be like to be in a social services profession.

"Family" at Oberlin is a fluid term... it can mean the people who are related to you to as well as the people who are not.

A virtual tour of my favorite places in Oberlin.