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Charlotte Ahlin '15 | Entirely belated musings on the end of winter term and the death of a famous explorer by beach-stabbing. I know that it's Alexandre, not Alexander, but I feel like he'd be cool with it.
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Emily Wilkerson '15 | When I was in my end-of-semester-only-able-to-think-in-wordplay stage, National Story Translating Month (a nod to NaNoWriMo) was the title I almost gave my winter term project, which was translating a German short story into English. Luckily, a friend intervened and I ended up calling it "Winter Term German Translation Intensive." Alas, sometimes professionalism has to win out over cleverness.
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Ruby Turok-Squire '16 | This is the primary view that I was afforded of the man behind the voice of the Harry Potter audiobooks, one night during Winter Term.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | The unofficial winter term project name is The Need to Feed. The unofficial unofficial project name is OMG WTF (Wow, That Food!) WINTER TERM.
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Griff Radulski '14 | My new friends have paws, hooves, horns, and attitude. I wish you could meet them, but pictures will just have to do.
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Dara Lehrer '16 | We may be fearless, but we're certainly not sleepless.
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Paris Achenbach '13 | In my last post, I talked a lot about the freedom of Winter Term, and how fun and fulfilling it can be. But I wholeheartedly believe that on the flip side of any freedom is discipline.
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Ida Hoequist '14 | Did I promise I was going to talk more about linguistics? Yes. Would I be doing this even if I hadn't promised? You couldn't stop me with a heavy blunt object, my friend.
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Dale Rothenberg '13 | After three years in the cold Northeast, I needed a change.
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Paris Achenbach '13 | In which I express my bountiful appreciation for this little thing called Winter Term.
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Dara Lehrer '16 | ...and the tricky business of knowing when they exist and when they don't.
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Simbarashe Runyowa '15 | I didn't grab no shoes or nothin' Jesus. I rayan for my life. (All the way to New York.)
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Charlotte Ahlin '15 | This year, I resolve to come up with punchier excerpts. Please oh please, click to make gigantic.
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Griff Radulski '14 | I'm leaving Oberlin for a semester, if not a year, and it's got me thinking again about what it means to be home. Over Winter Term I found a home in Monteverde, temporary, but a home nonetheless; and before I get all maudlin about leaving Oberlin, I wanted to share some snapshots of a beautiful month.
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Sophia Chen '12 | One of my physics videos is now on the YouTube!
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Eli Goldberg '12 | Some thoughts on teaching intensive ancient Greek.
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Emily Wilkerson '15 | ...I wanna write you a (winter term) blog post. That's how the song goes, right?
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Ruby Turok-Squire '16 | Good wolfy, don't chase the elk...
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Ruby Turok-Squire '16 | Huskies and cucumber rolls!! Mainly huskies.
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Ruby Turok-Squire '16 | The Deer Whisperer
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Ida Hoequist '14 | As our Director of Athletics, William Roth, puts it: "'Learning and Labor' is just a rephrasing of 'sound mind, sound body.'"
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Ida Hoequist '14 | I just spent a month training at a circus school. And if you think that sounds foolish or lazy, I invite you to read this post.
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Tess Yanisch '13 | My winter term project this year is reading
Les Miserables,
Moby Dick, and
Bleak House. I didn't think I was being ambitious, I swear.
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Chinwe Okona '13 | True Life: I'm in the Bay Area for Winter Term.
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Tess Yanisch '13 | Sci-Fi Hall decided to blow off some finals stress by dressing up as post-apocalyptic bikers, smearing fake blood on our faces, and raiding another theme hall. This happens from time to time.
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Jacob Lamoureux '12 | ~ what my last post was supposed to be ~
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Paul Buser '15 | kinda hard to explain via txt - call?
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Emily Wilkerson '15 | Winter Term is a time for one for-credit project and as many sub-goals as you can handle, right?
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Alanna Bennett '13 | Designing your own winter term project is an exciting thing. You get a kind of freedom of form and topic in these projects that traditional semesters don't often offer.
It can also be, in execution, a bit terrifying.
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Sophia Chen '12 | The gun show is sold out for now. While you wait for the next time we tour, please enjoy a description of my Winter Term/honors project. Since you're so accommodating, let me also offer you two tickets to the potassium show.
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Marsha Lynn Bragg | I'm kinda envious, especially since many students pursue their winter-term project in another country, perhaps some city with a warmer clime than northeast Ohio in January.
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Ida Hoequist '14 | A decidedly DIY guest post - if I combined my sheep-to-yarn skills with her yarn-to-clothes skills, we'd be unstoppable.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | A pictorial essay of winter term in Oberlin (and a load of theater reviews)!
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Ruby Saha '14 | My Winter Term in (mostly) sunny Singapore learning Arabic and piano, and eating my mother's cooking.
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Helena Thompson '11.5 | Songs for a New World opens this Wednesday. GET READY, OBERLIN!
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Ida Hoequist '14 | A Winter Term learning independence among sheep, chickens, and seven year olds.
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Karl Orozco '13 | Where I was, what I did, what I ate, and who I was with during my Winter Term in the Philippines.
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Tess Yanisch '13 | Purple potatoes, more cinnamon rolls, and why D&D is a conceptual model.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | It's possible to teach English, completely in English, to people who speak no English.
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Christine Chang '13 | Looking back on a winter filled with books and histories, I think the award for creepiest anecdote goes to Charles de Lint, and his story of a creature who lived in refrigerators and sucked the yolk out of eggs. If the human in residence then refused to buy any more eggs, the creature would move out of the fridge and on to the vitreous fluid in said human's eyeballs. Good times.
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Joe Dawson '12 | Although not a Winter Term on the West Coast, unfortunately.
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Eli Goldberg '12 | For three and a half weeks, we've slipped into an archaic apprenticeship system and become printer's devils. When else could I do something like this, if not during Winter Term?
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | There was also a bonus piece to the puzzle that they could collect if they found Bigfoot and told him some facts about himself.
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Helena Thompson '11.5 | Rue made cookies. We decorated them. Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Griff Radulski '14 | The idea is simple. I have to make one thing every day - anything from a wolf hat with headphones sewn into the brim to the slightly ambiguous "important arrangements."
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Tess Yanisch '13 | Winter Term co-ops and cinnamon rolls! Includes lots and lots of process pictures, a la Ma'ayan.
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Chinwe Okona '13 | That's right, Florida is the best place to spend Winter Term.
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Sophia Chen '12 | I'm on campus working on making pedagogical-but-not-pedantic, extremely low-budget videos on various physics demonstrations with physics professor Aaron Santos. It bridges the gap nicely between humanities and science.
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Prof. Sebastiaan Faber | Winter Term still has the delightful feel of space and possibility that I am sure it was designed to have by the brilliant, counter-cultural minds that came up with it some time in the 1970s.
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Patrick Doherty '11 | Four Winter Terms, three projects, an incredible internship, a Broadway debut, and much, much more.
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Tess Yanisch '13 | I'm going to be modeling the spread of information through social networks. Other people in the class are modeling swarms of locusts, a zombie infestation, and deformation of the magnetosphere by solar wind.
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Christine Chang '13 | 新年快樂！ [Happy New Year!]
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | "I want to do it!" I said. "I love pit orchestras!"
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Karl Orozco '13 | ...specifically my cultural and artistic worlds. And yes, that is the motto for Oberlin Shansi. Am I hinting at something?
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | In order to get an idea of the scope of Winter Term projects, we asked students to submit photos. We received shots from the top of Kilimanjaro to the Mad River Valley in Vermont; Prague to Washington, DC; Seattle to Oberlin. Then we made an album.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | The most amazing, delicious, creative, fantastic and new things to do for the month of January.
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Joe Dawson '12 | A wordy and rambling entry rife with thoughts. There's also a picture thrown in to break things up.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | I finished off my Winter Term with a foodie flourish and a fashion show... lots of photos included!
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Alice Ollstein '10 | I've transitioned very quickly from seeing suffering and resilience to silliness and pleasure, and it's been difficult to rationalize and connect these two parts of my life.
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John West '10 | In this post: the pseudo-triumphant return of John blogging, how freshmen walk, atrophied vocal chords, dinner parties, what I've been doing, what other people have been doing, shameless self-promotion, and much, much more.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | One good thing about being back at Oberlin: The weather is better.
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Karl Orozco '13 | ...just not when they're made out of clay. Have I mentioned that I'm spending my Winter Term making a claymation movie? Oh yeah, I have. Multiple times. Well, here it is.
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Sam Jewler '10 | My last day interning at TIME magazine was also my best day. One lesson learned: not all US senators are larger than life.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | I did my best deer in the headlights impression, at which point the guy I was assisting said not to worry, he'd help me with some of the talking.
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Tess Yanisch '13 | More about latrinalia, Winter Term, statistical analysis (and not doing it), and a whimsical, completely unrelated movie review for variety. Pictures included, of course.
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Helena Thompson '11.5 | I am exhausted. Worn out. Sore from my fingertips to my toes. But it's definitely worth it.
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Alicia Smith '10 | A brief overview of my Winter Term experiences as a "real world" newspaper reporter.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | Usually our conversations involved me trying to express myself with improperly conjugated verbs and him good naturedly pretending that he understood what I was saying.
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Megan Emberton '12 | A month to yourself. A WHOLE MONTH.
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Tess Yanisch '13 | How to study bathroom graffiti seriously, with theories, transcriptions, and *photos*! LOTS of photos!
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Eli Goldberg '12 | If I've learned one thing this Winter Term, it's to
always look under the roof!
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Karl Orozco '13 | In between breaks of being consumed by clay fruits, Karl looks for excitement to break the monotony.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | There were volcanoes. Volcanoes are awesome.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | Warning: please protect your keyboard before you read this. Very delicious photos within.
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Eli Goldberg '12 | Roman roof tile, Radio Free Association!, the Ladies' Home Journal, and more affairs of Winter Term living
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Joe Dawson '12 | (I know I've mentioned my difficulty with titles before.)
Who knows that this won't be incredibly valuable later in life? Or that it won't be, and I'll just be thankful I did it anyway? Or that I'll regret it and it will serve as motivation for me to get going and choose a major, since time for me to do so is rapidly running out?
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | I am taking this month of no assigned obligation to get lots and lots of work done on my senior cinema project, which is making a stop motion animation of a variety of soup recipes.
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Tess Yanisch '13 | My (many) little projects are intended to turn me into a well-rounded dilettante--while maintaining my priorities, of course. Unrelated but pretty pictures included.
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Karl Orozco '13 | This blog's purpose: to motivate Karl off of this computer chair and start working on his Winter Term project.
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Alicia Smith '10 | If I accomplish this whole list, I deserve a cookie. Or two.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | Keeping vegetarian in Oberlin is easy. In rural Nicaragua? Not so much.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | It's not the traditional research position that biochem majors normally pursue, but then again, I'm not a typical biochem major.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | Going back through the many pages I scribbled two years ago has been extremely helpful, and alternately depressing and entertaining.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | I've been listening to a lot of Jesus Christ Superstar in Spanish.
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Joe Dawson '12 | Interest piqued? The title is an anagram for something pretty awesome at Oberlin.
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Helena Thompson '11.5 | Snow + Connies from the South + a month of free time = ?
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Daniel Tam-Claiborne '09 | In high school, due surely to a lack of adequate allowance, I sold cans of soda that I bought in bulk from Costco and kept stored in a portable cooler to students just coming out of gym class. It would follow that a lifetime's worth of amateur experience culminated in my participation in the Entrepreneurship Scholars program.
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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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Prof. Sebastiaan Faber | I've always thought that leaving the country is one of the best ways to spend January.
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Joe Dawson '12 | I got my grades for my first ever semester in college back a few weeks ago, and I'm...pretty pleased, actually....
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | Since my semester hasn't really started yet, I present you a summary of my Winter Term, instead of a description of my new classes.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | A final week with the Pirates... a wayfaring seafaring voyage that will take me to the ends of the world...err... New York.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | He proceeded to talk about a hotel that once existed, the spirit that haunted it, and the
bomoh they hired to appease it.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | We were getting bedraggled, after countless handstands, cartwheels, and rope climbs. Yet as the weeks wound down, we got closer and closer as a group.
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Megan Emberton '12 | German, food, and friends. Good times, free time, and endless hectares of vocabulary to learn. Co-oping, the present perfect, and the biting cold.
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Emily Robinson '12 | I thought I'd share with you 10 things I have learned during my time at home, and despite their narrow margin of relevance, maybe they'll come in handy someday.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | This mix of people leads me to a very important topic: food. Malaysia, and particularly Penang, where my grandparents live, is well-known on those travel cooking shows for having amazing food. Those shows aren't lying.
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Will Mason '10 | Bartok and Techno, but not at the same time.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | "I've never been to Seattle," I said, imagining gray skies, coffee, comic books and indie bands.
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John West '10 | In this post: the inadequacy of my wit, avoidance of bad ad copy, books I
should read, and Nick Hornby.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | The party-goers are riveted, seeing their words transformed into a play in front of their eyes. The skits are performed with wacky costumes, wigs, and glasses, much in the style that children would play dress-up and make up stories.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | At 2.15pm, the lights went down and the excitement went up. All the writers were introduced, taking bows to waves of applause. The Story Pirates theme song was performed, and the show was on!
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | Though they all speak English, I've come to realize that what my uncle once said is very true: the conversation will start out in English, move on to a mixture of Chinese and English, and finally settle completely into Chinese.
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Joe Dawson '12 | So visualize this: I'm in my basement this morning, working on my bamboo bicycle, joining the steel remnants of a child-sized bike frame to my bamboo tubes.
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Will Mason '10 | On spending too much time in my practice room, reading lists, and "Twilight."
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | Right now, I'm in Seattle, studying at SANCA, the School for Acrobatics and New Circus Arts. To put it succinctly, this school is going to kick my ass.
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Prof. Sebastiaan Faber | January is supposed to be a quiet month, but as usual I've got too many things going at the same 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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John West '10 | In this post: countercyclical economics, Main Street v. the Big Box, student migratory patterns, the Evangelical Vatican, yoga, and a poor ending.
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Megan Emberton '12 | I am here to take Intensive German in an effort to shove enough grammar and vocabulary into my head to take German 102 in the coming semester.
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Joe Dawson '12 | Aahhhhhh! (that's 'Ahhhhhh' like the sound you make after taking a satisfying drink of Coke Zero™, not like 'Ahhhhhh please don't lock me in that iron mask for years because I look like my brother the king')
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Yitka Winn '09 | We also had an accidental four-hour stay in Bratislava, but hey, spontaneity and learning to roll with it is part of the adventure of traveling.
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Emily Robinson '12 | Winter term sounds cool, until you actually register for one. Then, it becomes amazing.
