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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | Or, I'm taking a dance class and I can't help but parallel lessons learned on the dance floor to my learning in the bigger world.
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Paris Achenbach '13 | Includes lots and lots of photos. Get ready.
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Margaret Saunders '16 | I do a little bit of boasting on behalf of the Fencing ExCo. Or is it FenceCo? FenxCo? FedEx?
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | Or, what #SoMeXco is all about and how our project is going to legit rock the world this weekend.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | For those of you who got here by googling "Oberlin Super Smash major" you're at the right place. Read on.
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Paul Buser '15 | Through my own personal failings, it is my wish that you will become enriched with wisdom.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | This just in: I really love to teach excited photographers. Especially when it comes to playing with light.
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Alanna Bennett '13 | November means many things for Oberlin: the typical college leaf piles, a strange flip-flopping in the weather from early-fall-crispness into Winter Is Coming ominousness.
It also means that ExCo applications are due.
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Joe Dawson '12 | One needs laser sights attached to their clown wigs. Am I trying to do too much?
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Karl Orozco '13 | A blog on my Adobe Illustrator ExCo.
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Joe Dawson '12 | First off, we became an unofficial SexCo...
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Ida Hoequist '14 | The ExCo that taught me how to do it right.
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Joe Dawson '12 | Things got a little hairier at this point, if I remember right, and I found new uses for my simple tools. The flat head screwdriver could be easily used as a pry bar, I found, pulling up pieces of the tape player whose screws wouldn't yield to my five year-old hands.
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Tess Yanisch '13 | Oberlin is an active, interesting place. For students, it is a great boon and a great tragedy: among all the wonderful opportunities we have, we must confront and accept the fact that we will never be able to explore them all.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | In which the tables are turned on my previous ExCo fair experiences: this time, I was sitting on the other side of the chaos.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | Luckily, Oberlin gives us the opportunity to be on the other side of the podium, too: I'm teaching an ExCo this spring!
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Christine Chang '13 | Why to pay attention to M.M. Bakhtin readings (turns out he has quite a following in several classes), and why to take Korean ExCo (for sheer awesomeness).
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Karl Orozco '13 | Pokémon! And ExCos! Specifically, ExCos about Pokémon!
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | With this Oberlin story (with penguins!) in my possession, I had to share it with everyone. I put out an all-call on Twitter and Facebook whenever I was sitting in the library working and knew that people needed a distraction.
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Joe Dawson '12 | I started out this semester with the idea that I would declare Biology or Engineering as my major and get cracking on the classes I needed to fulfill the major requirements. This was to be my buckling down semester, full of sciences and maths of various shapes and flavors.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | If you've heard the song "We Will All Go Together When We Go," by Tom Lehrer, it encapsulates the joyful fatalism of finals. This is why we have gender-bending, gravity-smashing swing dances.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | Our final for this ExCo was to make our own picture book, the four of us creating a fabulous story. Picture book enclosed for your reading pleasure!
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Tess Yanisch '13 | I love the idea of ExCos--it's part of the reason I came here. I signed up for a bunch of them but only one really worked out with my schedule. (One of my sophomore friends told me that it's funny how first-years try to do everything, but the truth is, there's so much interesting stuff going on, it's impossible
not to at least try it.)
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Alice Ollstein '10 | Dan stood in front of the bulldozers and blocked the construction for hours before they hauled him away. Why weren't there hundreds of people with him? Thousands?
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | I went into the first lesson armed with ten years of violin lessons, one year of music theory, and a textbook.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | And one more interesting thing. This is my thirteenth post here. I figured publishing it tomorrow would be a little much.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | During Add/Drop, we overcommit. This is inevitable.
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Emily Robinson '12 | Since I first sat back down at my desk last Saturday, I had this whole blog perfectly planned out.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | I had cancelled most of my plans for the weekend to write my script for cinema, and was currently completely outlined but not written. And I needed inspiration. A room full of creative souls seemed like a good place to be for two hours of my precious Sunday time.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | The Storytelling Exco has been the pillar of my college experience -- performance on the outside and therapy on the inside.
