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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | In this post: 90s pop, teamwork, and things that make your stomach rumble.
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Farah Emeka '97, Admissions | And of course, what did I find at the top of Black Butte mountain?--well... crazy aggressive chipmunks and a fellow Obie.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | As it is this wonderful tradition to bring as much as possible of Oberlin to New York, I implemented a plan last fall to bring as much of OCircus! to New York as possible. In this post: Circus! Photos! Autumn!
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Will Mason '10 | On performing at CMJ over fall break
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Isaac Yoder '13 | Isaac reflects on his first impressions of Oberlin after flying back home for fall break--only to find that his real home is at Oberlin. Awww.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | ...but it wouldn't have mattered because I probably wouldn't have listened anyways.
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John West '10 | In this post: whining, zingers, too many words, neuroses, a moral, unplayable atonal blah blah blah, a payoff for those who wade through 900-odd words.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | As I mentioned before, I was back early as an academic ambassador, a friendly, name-tag-emblazoned helpful upperclassman to help the overwhelmed freshmen during their first academic duties. Other than the perk of arriving back on campus early, I got to meet a number of extraordinary new students.
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Prof. David Walker '72 | On theater, travel, and the Oberlin connection.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | Sure, there are a few bloodthirsty, ambitious climbers at Oberlin, and a few deadbeats content to coast on their parents' funds, but the majority have found a healthy middle path.
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Leslie Braat, Admissions | I headed to a small coffee shop and discovered that it really is an Obie world after all.
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Daniel Tam-Claiborne '09 | Think of it as essentially this blog (more long-form stories, anecdotes, photos), but with a slightly different focus. Now that I have graduated from my dear alma mater, I figured it was time to branch out a little on my own.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | No matter how far away you go from Oberlin, you're still going to crave it.
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Daniel Tam-Claiborne '09 | It turns out that for a pair of liberal college campuses, both boasting large feeder populations from elite(ist) NYC high schools, Cornell and Oberlin couldn't be more different.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | I've been working at the Decafe ever since, my hours fluctuating every semester, but I still keep signing up for hours because I truly love working there. I love playing with food, I love making people happy with their food, and I love being creative. And here is where the adjective sandwiches come in.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | Say "commencement" and I think of the iconic hats in the air, traditions, pomp and circumstance, formality... But Oberlin students don't really DO traditional.
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Yitka Winn '09 | Holding that cap in my hands again this weekend and reading that message made me feel like I was getting hugged by my 17-year-old self.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | If there is one thing I learned how to do better at Oberlin that wasn't advertised at first was that I am now very good at applause.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | Oberlin students have a certain spark. It's not snark or cynicism, it's more of a slightly pointed... silliness. Weird implies non-functionality; uniqueness is too bland. Eccentric? Zany? Jaunty? Quirky? .... Does anyone have a word for us?
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Joe Dawson '12 | Why is it a concession stand? What exactly are you conceding? Except common sense in what a slice of damn pizza should cost.
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Daniel Tam-Claiborne '09 | The experience served to strengthen my conviction as an omnivore and made me truly realize the importance of the hunter-gatherer culture that had been passed down by our forebears. It didn't hurt that the chicken was also some of the best I had ever eaten.
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Daniel Tam-Claiborne '09 | If someone told me six months ago that for spring break of my senior year I would be living on a farm in rural Kentucky for nine days with scarcely any internet or phone and sharing a room with eleven people I had never met before, I would have laughed in their face. All I can say is what a difference a week makes.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | You know that one, the one where you're scrambling to get things done and say goodbye to everyone, and y'know, pack? I like that day, but I don't.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | Spring break in Mammoth Cave! Featuring: flutes, food, camping, kodama, hiking and super-cool people.
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Joe Dawson '12 | I love warm weather. Everything feels better when you can walk out the front door and realize you're wearing
too many layers.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | Some people speak Spanish, French, Chinese. My friends speak Science. If I didn't speak at least some pidgin Science, I couldn't understand them at all.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | Personally, I was completely terrified of the concept of office hours my freshman year. The professors were amazing and awesome and being in the same room as them one-on-one just seemed like a god-given experience, something not worthy of a lowly freshman. So, baby steps.
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Max Strasser '09 | A rather esoteric blog post in which I discuss postmodernism, historiography, the Middle East, new professors, great professors, and the true beauty of a liberal arts education.
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Prof. Sebastiaan Faber | Why do so many Oberlin students double or triple major? I really want to know.
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Prof. Sebastiaan Faber | My colleagues and I looked at each other in astonishment. No, we mumbled almost apologetically, we're sorry, but that is not a problem we tend to have.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | Tomorrow will be my first opportunity to listen to my completed mix, The Long Road Home. That last leg that seems to last oh-so-long will be much quicker this time.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | So, when everyone started talking about their plans for winter term in that "I'm really trying to avoid my finals work so I'm going to talk to many people I haven't talked to much this semester" time in December, I had a great name to toss into conversation, even if I didn't really know what I'd be doing yet.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | I've been running this entire last year on pure adrenaline. I know why, though, and it's because the life of an artist is a long and penniless road.
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Daniel Tam-Claiborne '09 | I don't know what it is about giving a speech that makes it so affecting, its ability to connect with and instill hope and pride in the hearts of listeners. All I knew at the time was that it was something I had to experience doing.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | I know your parents don't want to hear this, but Oberlin students use a bunch of dirty language. One of our favorites is
work.
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Yitka Winn '09 | Once people get over the novelty of Dorothy jokes and tornado questions - inevitable, I've learned, when I'm outside of my home state and meeting new people - it's actually pretty cool to be from somewhere unusual. Especially when I get the opportunity to share my hometown and state with other Obies, many of whom have never even been so far west.
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Ben Jones '96 | I've been having fun reading about everyone else's paths to Oberlin, so I thought I'd throw my own story into the mix.
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John West '10 | I think a die a little bit every time someone uses the word
Obie to describe
a person who goes to Oberlin (as in:
We Obies love to hate things). I think
The Grape--one of Oberlin College's many publications--described the word as (and I'm paraphrasing here) "used only by
The Review and the Admissions Department."
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Chris Gollmar '10 | A couple days ago, I decided that I would take advantage of all of the free time I have on my hands and set out to Tigre, a city located in the delta of the Paraná River, a half-hour train ride from downtown Buenos Aires. I got lost exploring the island, but it was worth it.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | I took a few shots of the bells, of campus, of the students headed down the ladder. A different perspective. I live for this.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | Dear Obies: Yes We Did.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | During fall orientation, while moving all my belongings from storage to my room, I got a phone call inviting me to Thanksgiving. And due to the sheer wonderfulness of this family, and their foresight, I accepted. I knew that my Thanksgiving would feel like home with the Albrechts.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | It's been over a week since the final performance of the Johnson Family Circus. I'm in an extraordinary position to continue reliving the show for days, weeks, even months after.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | It smelled of summers, winters and places I thought of as home too, though she and I only had Oberlin in common.
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Joe Dawson '12 | We went back and forth for quite some time, coming up with quality lines for the ladies, and some lame ones as well.
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John West '10 | So, yes, I'm eschewing that obligatory
hello my name is John. I'm a blogger. I'm really cool. Here's some stuff about me post, at least for the time being. Bios are dreadfully difficult to write, and, though my fellow bloggers have been covering Oberlin's reaction to this latest election pretty
darn well, I figured I might as well add my two cents.
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Will Mason '10 | Like most people in America (I gather), I thought Obama was going to win but also was distrustful enough of my fellow citizens that I had to wait until it was announced on the news to believe it.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | When I tell my kids where I was when this part of history was made, I will say this: I was in Oberlin. The best place in the world.
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Max Strasser '09 | "Professors' Liberalism Contagious? Maybe not." -New York Times "Am I supposed to be surprised? No." -Me
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Alice Ollstein '10 | When confronted with wastefulness and hostility, what's an Obie to do? It ain't easy being green...
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Will Mason '10 | Find out more about the catch phrase sweeping campus.
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Max Strasser '09 | I somehow missed this in the Washington Post on Saturday, but it's exciting: Our own Marvin Krislov, Oberlin College's president, wrote an op-ed about voting rights for students.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | My packed day of activities this weekend was a perfect example of Oberlin's environmentalism, and I'm glad there were a ton of prospective students (aka prospies) here to see them.
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Will Mason '10 | I'd like to use this post as an opportunity to further introduce myself (past the perfunctory greeting and awkward head shot provided by my profile).
