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Alice Ollstein '10 | It suddenly hit me that I have only four days left at my internship at La Opinion, and only two weeks left in LA.
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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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Alice Ollstein '10 | In the life of an intern, just about anything can happen. Well, almost anything.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | At first I was annoyed at the little assignments Oberlin's making me do to get credit for my summer internship, but now I'm grateful.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | The job search is one of the most stressful experiences I've ever had. The only time I've ever felt so confused and overwhelmed was writing my college applications.
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Will Mason '10 | Notes from a month spent touring with an Oberlin rock band.
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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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Alice Ollstein '10 | My own computer, grammar errors, and what it's like to be the only Anglo at the country's biggest Spanish paper.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | College has been better than any other time in my life. When I think about who I was when I arrived here, and who I am now... I am a fundamentally different person. I grew up in Oberlin.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | Really, the only solution was to stay up until around 3:00 AM, listening to hit songs from the nineties, reading picture books, and learning the proper way to put on bangles.
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Joe Dawson '12 | My team T-Spain feat. Young Portugueezy, formerly Urethra Franklin, formerly Hurricane Kathleena and the Mansoon, really turned up the heat.
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Daniel Tam-Claiborne '09 | The challenge over the month came in donning both roles--as both a teacher and a student--all while being reassured along the way that we were likely to catch dengue fever, get taken hostage at a Jakarta airport, and be heaved out of a moving train on our way to Moscow.
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Yitka Winn '09 | Forget that there was no hot water in my bathroom and that the hotel gym cost an extra $18 a day to work out at; I was delighted with our 13th floor window overlooking Lake Michigan, and the opportunity to spend some time with Linda, whom I adore.
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Max Strasser '09 | Please excuse my first post waxing nostalgic about graduating. There will probably be more.
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Will Mason '10 | Four months of hard work and many sleepless nights have resulted in an album that is, from conception to production, entirely ours.
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Chris Gollmar '10 | Today I visited Career Services to get some quick advice on my résumé and on finding the right gradate program. It feels like I'm a junior in high school all over again.
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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 | It is fitting that even in my last semester here at Oberlin, I am fortunate enough to be taking advantage of one more opportunity that this school has offered--one that is wholly unique to graduates of Oberlin. For two years, I will be teaching English in the northern Chinese province of Taigu through the Oberlin Shansi two-year fellowship program.
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Yitka Winn '09 | Although we were all a little homesick that day, there is something really special about the evolving sense of family you develop with the people you meet in your life after leaving home.
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Prof. David Walker '72 | Imagine someone handing you a check for $28,000 to go anywhere in the world to do whatever you'd most like to do in the year after college graduation.
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Elizabeth Houston '06, Admissions | In which I chronicle my journey from prospie to student to admissions representative.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | With our independent magazine finally published, now we just have to get people to read it.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | Why everything is easier at Oberlin and harder out in the real world.
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Prof. David Walker '72 | If you're interested in a career in journalism, is it a mistake to choose a college that doesn't offer a journalism major? On the contrary!
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Max Strasser '09 | Sorry for my hiatus from the Obieblogosphere, but I'm in Jerusalem, working at an internship and enjoying the Middle East. But Oberlin is never too far from my mind. Here's a quick update.
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Prof. David Walker '72 | The overlapping events of commencement and reunion balance each other, since the inevitable melancholy of saying goodbye to the graduates is offset by the pleasure of reconnecting with old friends.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | I'm back home in Santa Monica with a real job at a real newspaper, and I'm realizing that my time at the Oberlin Review has been the perfect preparation for the journalism world.
