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| 11.19.09 |
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My waking self was indecisive, but my subconscious knew.
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| 11.15.09 |
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Lessons from a (sometimes) grumpy senior with a touch of senioritis
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| 11.07.09 |
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Why it's much easier to join organizations than quit them, and why quitting is sometimes the right move.
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| 10.28.09 |
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I didn't win. But I was proud to remember both the 3 D's of apparition AND Ron's favorite Quidditch team.
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| 10.23.09 |
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How I accidentally minored in Politics and loved it.
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| 10.20.09 |
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The drugs, plus several more days of going to bed at grandma hours, eventually cured me.
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| 09.29.09 |
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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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| 09.10.09 |
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Finally, after almost 20 hours of waiting, I had original paintings by Goya and Toulouse Lautrec in my hands.
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| 08.27.09 |
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A few changes around campus since my freshman year, for better and for worse.
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| 08.20.09 |
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A few words of advice mixed with my nostalgic ramblings of yore.
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| 08.10.09 |
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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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| 08.03.09 |
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Sure, there are a few bloodthirsty, ambitious climbers at Oberlin, and a few deadbeats content to coast on their parents' funds, but the majority have found a healthy middle path.
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| 07.16.09 |
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In the life of an intern, just about anything can happen. Well, almost anything.
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| 07.13.09 |
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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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| 06.30.09 |
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Upon learning I attend Oberlin, many people ask if I go into Cleveland every weekend. Usually my facial expression is enough of an answer.
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| 06.09.09 |
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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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| 06.03.09 |
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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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| 05.14.09 |
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You can't do everything at Oberlin, but by god do we all try.
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| 05.07.09 |
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Dan stood in front of the bulldozers and blocked the construction for hours before they hauled him away. Why weren't there hundreds of people with him? Thousands?
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| 04.27.09 |
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As my time in Arizona draws to a close, my thoughts drift away from the mountains of work I have to do to how excited I am for senior year at Oberlin. Here are some of my top fantasies.
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| 04.19.09 |
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I can't decide if I'm excited to go back to a traditional academic setting--to actually read novels again and discuss theories in the safe confines of a classroom--or apprehensive that I'll be frustrated not to be learning by doing, not to be out on the frontlines of the issue that moves me the most.
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| 04.07.09 |
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Some seem to think I've strayed from the original purpose of the blog--giving prospies an unmediated account of Obie life--yet here are the ways my experiences here in Arizona have a great deal to do with far-off Oberlin.
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| 04.04.09 |
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"The people who come here illegally across the border are not educated people," Ms. Richardson said. "They don't have any culture or any respect for ours."
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| 04.02.09 |
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A few things I learned on yesterday's patrol with the Samaritans, a group that sends a group out to the desert every day looking for migrants in need of water, food, medicine or simply a friendly face.
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| 03.30.09 |
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Amnesty International just released a pretty horrifying report on immigrant detention in the U.S. calling the system "broken." What can we do about it?
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| 03.27.09 |
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After not blogging for my entire trip (thanks to spotty Internet access and barely any free time), I now find myself at a loss for words.
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| 02.09.09 |
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A handy glossary of border terms. More to come.
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| 02.07.09 |
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To learn the routes of migration, we did in a couple of easy hours what takes most migrants four excruciating days.
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| 02.03.09 |
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Today my program spent the afternoon in court. It's not what it sounds like.
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| 02.01.09 |
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What if good intentions and a strong desire to "make a difference" aren't enough?
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| 01.30.09 |
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Living with a host family is a difficult adjustment after two and a half years in Oberlin's dorms.
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| 01.28.09 |
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Drugs, thugs and racism: a smidgen of what I've learned so far on the border.
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| 01.20.09 |
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Tomorrow marks both the end of the Border Studies program orientation and the end of Bush's reign. Now the real work begins.
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| 01.19.09 |
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I crossed the border for the first time today, and witnessed firsthand the tragedies and ironies of our immigration system.
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| 01.16.09 |
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This ain't your momma's study abroad.
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| 12.17.08 |
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It took putting 3 ten-page papers, a five-page paper and two exams behind me to realize that I just might miss this ol' place after all.
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| 12.11.08 |
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Off-campus status is both a blessing and a curse...but mostly a blessing.
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| 12.03.08 |
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Dear Obies: Yes We Did.
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| 11.23.08 |
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It's important to look around.
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| 11.16.08 |
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It's a bummer to be sick at school, but not as bad as you might think.
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| 10.30.08 |
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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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| 10.11.08 |
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To my delight, a prospie e-mailed me last week and asked if she could spend some time with me during her visit to Oberlin. We had a good time, but here's how to have an even better stay.
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| 09.24.08 |
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The election results may come down to our little state, and the town and college of Oberlin is rising to the challenge.
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| 08.23.08 |
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Sustainability meets book buying.
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| 08.10.08 |
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With our independent magazine finally published, now we just have to get people to read it.
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| 07.18.08 |
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Why everything is easier at Oberlin and harder out in the real world.
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| 07.09.08 |
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When confronted with wastefulness and hostility, what's an Obie to do? It ain't easy being green...
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| 06.20.08 |
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Thousands of miles from Oberlin, it's still all around me.
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| 06.05.08 |
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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.
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| 05.20.08 |
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The end of sophomore year brought the stress of finals, but also the fun of commencement week and parties at professors' houses.
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| 05.05.08 |
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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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| 04.22.08 |
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A bit about how I ever left L.A. sunshine for Ohio and why I'm so glad I did.
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| 04.13.08 |
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My packed day of activities this weekend was a perfect example of Oberlin's environmentalism, and I'm glad there were a ton of prospective students (aka prospies) here to see them.
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| 04.07.08 |
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All about Drag Ball, arguably the biggest yearly event at Oberlin.
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