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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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Eli Goldberg '12 | For the curious, here's a taste of what makes dining halls and co-ops different. Consider it an anthropological study.
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Alicia Smith '10 | Shishta-who? Shishta-where? Shishta-how? Shishta-wouk! (And many other tasty things.)
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Will Mason '10 | Adventures in domesticated living.
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Karl Orozco '13 | This is the part where I introduce myself, right?
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Sam Jewler '10 | I promise I won't spend the rest of the year blogging about beer and circular logic, but it seemed like a good place to start.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | I'm always the first on campus to bust out my winter coat, scarf, boots, and hat. Am I ashamed? Not in the least.
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Megan Emberton '12 | Co-ops are wonderful, and the food is great. Do not worry, first years I've talked to who have expressed their doubts about this!
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | Way to rain on my Labor Day parade, Ohio. Even after four years, I still don't understand your weather patterns.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | A few changes around campus since my freshman year, for better and for worse.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | Keeping in the vein of keeping my blog Oberlin-centric, even if I'm a few thousand miles removed, I'm going to do a run down of local food things I like to play with, in Oberlin industrial kitchens and Hawaiian home kitchens. Kitchens are my playgrounds, but with infinitely more sharp objects and dangerous things the average kid shouldn't play with.
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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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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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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | I have just passed the two week point of being home for the summer. And since this is an Oberlin blog, this is about what's different at my summer home and my Oberlin home.
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Daniel Tam-Claiborne '09 | Thankfully, there were senior members who talked me through the best ways to peel garlic, fry potatoes, and make an omelet. Never would I have imagined that a group of students could be efficient and capable enough to orchestrate what functioned like a self-contained dining hall.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | There comes a weekend in April that you don't necessarily know how it exists. Namely, there is so much packed into a 72 hour period that you need something akin to a Time-Turner (from Harry Potter, lest you forget) to process everything.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | Inside, podcasts of
A Prairie Home Companion ushered Keepers and visitors into the dining room where we filled our plates and other eating receptacles with hamburger noodle hotdish, green bean casserole, wild rice, powdermilk biscuits, and jello with Swedish fish before heading outside to the sunshine.
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Megan Emberton '12 | I knew that college was supposed to be full of life-changing realizations, but I'm not sure I could have prepared myself for this.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | Once we landed at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, I woke up and raced for the bus stop. After waiting outside for 10 minutes, I huddled indoors and discovered I had missed the last bus by 15 minutes. Gahhh.
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Daniel Tam-Claiborne '09 | I learned that there is a certain art to pie-making, kneading from the center out, making sure that the middle isn't too thin, and being careful to leave a slightly raised border along the outside so there's some semblance of crust after it bakes.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | It looked delicious... but we were told we couldn't eat yet. It is an extremely sadistic thing to show us food and tell us we can't partake. I was ready to dive in. But there was a reason.
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Nicolee Kuester '10 | As a rule, I try to avoid soaking in sicky-sweet pools of sentimentality (diabetes does, after all, run in my family), but when I talk about Thanksgivings at Fairkid I can't help but get that soft-eyed, distant-smile expression that means I've departed for that Lisa Frank horror-land of happy candy clouds and rainbow koalas.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | As I write this (but not as I type this, because I'll be doing that later), I'm drinking egg nog left over from my dinner at Lord/Saunders. That's right, I ventured to south campus to eat dinner tonight.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | I had the distinct pleasure of flying to Rome for fall break to see my S.O., who is studying Classics there, and I got to employ a lot of what I've learned in classrooms and the coops during my stay.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | Bad idea: Working on a Friday night.
