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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | Right before I left for summer vacation, my Facebook status read, 'Zoë goes to the coolest church ever.'
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Alicia Smith '10 | Shishta-who? Shishta-where? Shishta-how? Shishta-wouk! (And many other tasty things.)
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Eli Goldberg '12 | Obie weather...
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Alice Ollstein '10 | The drugs, plus several more days of going to bed at grandma hours, eventually cured me.
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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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John West '10 | In this post: two apologies, meta-blogging, Rust Belt aesthetics, an Oberlin vignette, pacts with readers, and overwrought prose.
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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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Aries Indenbaum '09 | Until this summer, I'd never spent a full day in Cleveland. It was time to change that. It was time to get to know Cleveland, to see if I wanted to deepen our relationship.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | There's a flower shop on S. Main that writes a different name on their sign every day, and if you are blessed with that particular name, you get a free flower. I had never seen my own name until this past Commencement.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | Under the new management, the Apollo now has two-dollar matinees, is screening a few different movies a week, and they're starting up a great new-old tradition: the midnight movie.
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Yitka Winn '09 | Lorain County has an amazing set of metro parks all over the county, full of hiking/running paths, lakes, reservoirs, rivers, creeks, waterfalls, natural wetlands, tons of wildlife - and all linked by a bikeable set of country highways that make up the Back Roads and Beaches route.
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Yitka Winn '09 | Our president Marvin Krislov presented Dr. Morrison with several gifts, one of which included a note from her 91-year-old first grade teacher from Lorain, Ohio - a phenomenal moment to consider that this powerful, Nobel-Peace-Prize-winning, larger-than-life inspiration to me was once upon a time, merely a first grader.
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Yitka Winn '09 | Picture three of us lying on our backs with our heads on each other's stomachs, listening to the birds waking up, and talking about life after college.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | I could spend the rest of this post muttering to myself about the eight books I read over break. However, I don't think that's what you're here for.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | For three weeks of the year, the walls of the Bent corridor (which I totally thought was just a descriptor, not the name of two illustrious alumni, up until last week) are graced with beautiful local artwork from students from the 9th Congressional District. I was ever so lucky to be there photographing it.
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Yitka Winn '09 | I'm not even a huge history buff, but there's something stirring to the soul about stumbling across an old, crumbling stone and barely being able to make out the engraved letters:
Born a slave, died free.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | Working for a paper is exciting at times. Going without sleep comes with the territory.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | When I got the note, I started dancing in the library and letting out some jubilant obscenities. I hadn't expected to win, especially for a story I hadn't workshopped, in a style I was new at.
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Yitka Winn '09 | I've already got crazy nostalgia for the long, lazy summer days spent lounging in the hammock on our porch, the nights of impromptu jam sessions with my more musically inclined friends, the smell of freshly baked bread rising up from our kitchen.
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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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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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Prof. Steve Volk | When I was at college, back in the Pleistocene era, I always wondered what happened to my small college town outside of Boston when I wasn't there.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | I'm keeping the coat, of course. There's a lot of life there.
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Yitka Winn '09 | One truly fantastic aspect of Oberlin and the surrounding area is that, small as it may be, there are always new corners of it to explore.
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Yitka Winn '09 | On those runs, I reflected a lot on the love that's developed in me over the last three years for the town of Oberlin, and I began working out ideas in my head about how to connect more with the local community.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | When it's so quiet, I enjoy my hard-won free time. I take up my whims.
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Charles Grim, Admissions | Last night I visited the United World College in Costa Rica and had the pleasure of speaking with a prospective student from Spain. Xiana is a native speaker, not of Spanish, but of Galacian. This got me thinking about differences in language diversity within countries.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | I received a request to elaborate on my experience going from a big, urban California environment to Oberlin, Ohio...so here goes!
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Prof. David Walker '72 | For some reason, people seem obsessed by the image of cornfields. Yes, it's true that in the countryside of Lorain County there are lots of small farms, but there are no cornfields visible from the campus, no cows grazing on Tappan Square.
