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...confusing time. Coming back to Oberlin, I realized that I was not comfortable there either. For the first time I had no home, only people I loved scattered around the country. After all, home is not a location, a set of four walls covered by a shingled roof. Home is a feeling, a magnetic attraction to what makes one feel safe. I found myself flying twice a month to Providence to slide into the arms of my girlfriend; it was there alone that life felt right. Oberlin never got better, and I was ecstatic when Harvard offered me a spring...
...freshman experience was an 11-hour drive away from Cambridge, at Oberlin College in Ohio. I am a junior, yet Harvard has been my home for just under a year. I don’t use the word “home” lightly—it’s a tricky thing. During my first winter break back at my first home, in San Diego, I returned to find my former bedroom converted to a sterile guestroom. Stripped of my pictures, the walls begged for personality. My bed had new sheets, charcoal gray, and the bookshelves were empty...
Mack received his undergraduate degree from Oberlin College in 1951. He served in the U.S. Air Force between...
Another keynote speaker, David Orr, who chairs the Environmental Studies program at Oberlin, drew laughter and applause when he snuck into his slide-show a political cartoon of Vice President Cheney strumming a banjo against the backdrop of oil rigs, singing “this land is oiled land, this land is mined land...
...cited the example of an Oberlin graduate that established an environmentalist group in Ohio and a group of Oberlin students who bought out a city block to forestall the establishment of a Walmart...