This weekend, I went on a trip to Ohio to look at colleges. Friday was spent at Kenyon College, and Saturday I went to Oberlin. When I got to Oberlin, I felt as if I were right at home. I was amazed that there was a college devoted to the environment. While eating lunch on campus, I saw a pick up truck filled with compost drive by. I decided that a school’s contribution to the environment is essential for me, and I don’t want to go somewhere that doesn’t care about being sustainable. A sustainable college is where I want to go, and right now, Oberlin is at the top of my list.
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You have made an excellent choice. Your college selection criteria demonstrates maturity and insight into the most urgent issues of our time. If you are fortunate enough to attend Oberlin, you will surely thrive within it’s highly intellectual atmosphere and progressive ethos. Moreover, if your experience is anything like mine was, you will find additional, more personal vindication of your choice virtually every day you are there. SG.
Comment by Steve Garlington, OC '76 November 12, 2007 @ 1:00 pmYay for Oberlin! I graduated from there a few years ago, and I can’t think of a better place to go to school. It’s a place full of talented musicians and artists, passionate activists, and delicious cooks (the student-run co-ops feed one out of every 6 students). When I went in I was a clean cut tennis player with aspirations of medical school, but it turned me into the long-haired, vegetarian, fiddle-playing, world-saver that I am today.
Judging from your blog, I think you’d be very happy there. Good luck!
Comment by Rafe Rosen November 12, 2007 @ 5:57 pm