But the devil will find work for idle hands to do: Reasons to Love Oberlin That are Not Squirrels or Chairs:
- We have a supercomputer. That undergraduate students can use.
- OSCA. A multimillion dollar student run organization with its own Wikipedia page.
- Our neuroscience department? Fucking amazing. I took Intro Neuro last year and basically every class there would be a name drop of an Oberlin grad who did something fantastically cool with brains.
- Here is the sadly lacking website for OCircus!, the second largest student run organization on campus. It’s a fucking circus need I say more.
- Remember how OSCA has it’s own Wikipedia page? So does our art museum. The building that contains the art museum is an architectural landmark.
- The Wright brothers willed a ton of their money to Oberlin when they died. Just sayin’.
- Oberlin is the reason aluminum is spelled “aluminum” in America and not “aluminium.” (Yes I know that source is OberWiki just bear with me I heard it on the History Channel too.)
- One of the leading vampire scholars teaches at Oberlin.
- So does Dan Fucking Chaon.
- We have so many different living communities for students. First Year Experience! Program Houses! Co-ops! And, my personal favorite, Theme Halls!
(This list paid for by the fact that yes, I know that Oberlin’s publicity focuses on things that are not squirrels and chairs but sometimes I think we need to be reminded to not fall into a trap of “What’s cool about Oberlin?” IDK, Squirrels? Chairs?” Yeah, I love them as much as everyone but I’d much rather go to a school with cool professors, programs, and an awesome student body than one with squirrels.)
Feel free to add your own.
woo rad
all of these things are awesome of course
oberlin really did prepare me well for the rest of my life
