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Chris Gollmar '10 | Why live off campus?
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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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Will Mason '10 | Yard sales, integrating into the Oberlin community, and the hunt for the perfect antique desk.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | I mentioned before that the first few weeks of college equals '50s housewife meets college student: shopping for classes, ironing out schedules, and cleaning and unpacking all belongings, and if the weather doesn't take the temperature dip it did a few days ago, flowery dresses and sunglasses.
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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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Joe Dawson '12 | There is no required reading for freshmen at Oberlin, but a quick flip through
Lord of the Flies could be real helpful.
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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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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | Luck, however, was with us, in the form of a front loader.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | You may or may not have heard that the bathrooms are gender-neutral at Oberlin. This may or may not concern you, your parents, or someone else whom you hold dear.
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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 | Remember how I mentioned there are all these distractions during reading period and finals? Ah, yes, there is another one I failed to mention earlier, and that is PACKING.
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Yitka Winn '09 | There's something cool about occupying spaces that have so much history in them, so many Obies who've lived there in the past...
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | I got a little overzealous and started quizzing people on their "action items," which I think only confused the issue.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | I got into Harkness co-op the summer before my freshman year and have stayed loyal to the Harkness flag ever since. This year, I think I am the oldest and most experienced veteran Harkness resident. Just call me Auntie Harkness.
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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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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | It must have looked pretty odd--all those mini lanterns hanging from tree limbs and about five of us with cans of spray paint looking like members of a graffiti ExCo, but you get my point.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | Things I didn't expect from college: Moving in with the boyfriend.
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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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Chris Gollmar '10 | Last Sunday I moved into my house for this semester. Now I officially live off campus.
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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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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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Alice Ollstein '10 | Off-campus status is both a blessing and a curse...but mostly a blessing.
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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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Will Mason '10 | The worst part of college is getting there.
