oberlin: apologies if this has been asked before.

yitka (

atspesnonfracta) wrote in

oberlin,
@ 2005-10-23 01:35:00

apologies if this has been asked before...but to all you upperclassmen: what have you done for winter term in the past?
and to anyone: what are you considering doing for this year?

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kezinge
2005-10-23 05:59 am UTC (link)

I spent my first Winter Term at Twin Oaks, a commune/intentional community in Virginia, which was amazing. Last Winter Term I took the intensive introductory Latin course here, the quality of which I think depends largely on who is teaching it. I found it a bit too difficult, but I'm not good at learning languages generally. This Winter Term I'll probably spend trying to cowrite a paper on the contrasting uses of the concept of design in the arts and evolutionary biology.

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	(Anonymous) 2005-10-25 07:00 pm UTC (link)
	Was the Twin Oaks thing sponsored by Oberlin? Is there usually an intentional community program available? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	kezinge 2005-10-25 09:35 pm UTC (link)
	I suppose it was sponsored by Oberlin in the sense that all Winter Term projects are: a professor endorsed it as valid. I just did the standard Twin Oaks visitor program, though. The only other connection to Oberlin was that there happened to be four Obies in the visitor group. (Reply to this) (Parent)

freesiayourmind
2005-10-23 06:15 am UTC (link)

I want to go abroad, since the breaks aren't long enough to do that and I usually work during summers. I applied for the Classics dpt. trip to Greece, and am still waiting to hear on that...and if I don't get into that I'll apply for the Biology (?) dpt trip to India. But I'm less likely to get into that. So otherwise I'll probably just stay on campus and do something theater-y. Might apply for a few internships, though.

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	princedisciple 2005-10-23 07:22 am UTC (link)
	Interning with Drawn and Quarterly (A graphic novel publisher in Montreal). This is all assuming I can find a place to live in Montreal for a month. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	datclaiborne 2005-10-24 02:06 am UTC (link)
	That sounds absolutely amazing! I'm a huge fan of graphic novels and Drawn and Quarerly in particular. May I ask how you got that internship? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	princedisciple 2005-10-24 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	I emailed them, but they didn't respond so I called their office. They pretty much said, "Sure," right there on the phone, since then I've just been emailing them and trying to find lodging. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	faeriez 2005-10-24 08:00 pm UTC (link)
	swoons That's fantastic. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2005-10-25 08:49 am UTC (link)
	Good old Quart and Drawnerly. You are in danger of being awesome. (Reply to this) (Parent)

inkyoctopus
2005-10-23 07:22 am UTC (link)

first year: capoeira workshop
second year: belly dance workshop
third year: resed fucked me over and i couldn't get on campus for my spoken word winter term
fourth year: worked as a stage manager for "Triumph in Terezin", a play with musical selections about the Terezin concentration camp.
this year: who knows?! probably something off campus. i really want to go to el salvador to travel and bullshit some project.

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	dynamint 2005-10-23 01:38 pm UTC (link)
	Last year I did an independant study of Chinese so I could take the second semester despite having no previous background in Chinese. This year I'm thinking of the Korean language winter term, assuming it happens, or some other group project, and keeping an eye on internships. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	micahblitz 2005-10-23 09:45 pm UTC (link)
	could you keep me updated on a Korean language winter term? I would LOVE to be involved in that. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jon9986 2005-10-23 02:03 pm UTC (link)
	Going on tour. (Reply to this)

	khiaroscuro 2005-10-23 02:09 pm UTC (link)
	I spent last winter term writing a song. Sitting in my room with hot cocoa and music software for a month. It was amazing. You can get away with just about anything. Freshman year my roomie did a study of lucid dreaming and slept all month. (Reply to this)

	procris 2005-10-23 03:17 pm UTC (link)
	First year: Poetry Workshop Second year: Two weeks in London, Bath, Cambridge and Oxford, entitled "Classical Art in Britain, or, What the British Stole" Third year: Taught myself Japanese and coptic bookbinding. Fourth (this) year: uh... Honors project. and Portfolio for grad school (Reply to this)

chanzi
2005-10-23 03:31 pm UTC (link)

First year: drawing class on-campus
Second year: 2 half-credit projects, doing research with a con professor and taking Limon dance classes
Third year: I had just finished a semester abroad in Spain, my mom and I spent Christmas in Italy, I got winter term credit for doing more traveling around Italy, France, and Spain.
Fourth year: No formal project, but I was at Oberlin doing honors stuff.

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ece_drihten
2005-10-23 03:38 pm UTC (link)

My first year I was in that poetry workshop with procris.
The second WT I spent starting a novel, and not finishing it.
Last year, I read through the better part of the Harvard Classics.
This year I'll be writing my honors thesis. As with chanzi's (hey chanzi! Where did you go? Are you going to come back and watch Michael and me graduate??) honors stuff, my honors thesis will not count as a formal project; after all, you need to do but three.

I spent all three previous and most likely this impending WT on campus and I strongly reccomend that you do WT at Oberlin at least one time. It's a great way to chill out--chances are your time on campus, what with classes and all, is really stressfull--and you get to bond with your friends in a big way. Cooking together really does a lot for that, and the much slower pace of things also makes a big difference. The town is presented to you in a different way, as well, just by virtue of the lack of classes and the need to decend upon it for groceries etc.

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	divine_aphasia 2005-10-23 04:53 pm UTC (link)
	i wanna go to thailand, but we'll see if that pulls through. (i'd be living with people i know there, not going on a program) (Reply to this)

	dj_polysemy 2005-10-23 05:28 pm UTC (link)
	first year-- bowling III with tom reid (i would highly recommend it if you like bowling) second year-- i wrote a research paper on Dykes to Watch Out For, a comic strip. third year-- i think i'm volunteering through willing workers on organic farms (WWOOF) in hawaii or california. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2005-10-25 11:18 pm UTC (link)
	Marne can I read that sometime (or hear a synopsis of it, or your thoughts in general or whatevs)? I've read all the books you leftr at Baldwin and now I'm really excited that you did that winter term! Kyla (Reply to this) (Parent)

makoelf
2005-10-23 05:31 pm UTC (link)

first year: intensive german as a brush-up
second year: i was the translator for the buenos aires opera group
third year: didn't do anything
this year: i'm not sure... depends on whether or not i get accepted to shansi or not. otherwise i'm looking into doing a type of intensive japanese through a tutor at home if i get funding from the winter term department. if that doesn't work out, i'll probably just come up with some goofy project like underwater basketweaving. hahaha. =Þ best of luck!
♥ ale

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	greenbeetle 2005-10-23 05:33 pm UTC (link)
	last year i did an independent study of intro latin. this year i'm working on planning a trip to germany with a couple of friends. the plan's to travel around and see as much as possible as cheaply as possible. (Reply to this)

	infidel 2005-10-23 07:01 pm UTC (link)
	I'm gonna try to learn some Swahili (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bbykbubbles 2005-10-23 08:31 pm UTC (link)
	oo! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	beatniksquirrel 2005-10-23 07:37 pm UTC (link)
	Yitka, let's be sexy together and try and ignite Lorain County with our smoldering good looks. I would consider it to be a "life experience." And can you tell that I've been stranded in various airports for 12 hours with no sleep and too much saturated fat? My mind's going, Y. W.! (Reply to this)

	tgeller 2005-10-23 09:26 pm UTC (link)
	The one year I was there, I wrote 10 sonnets a day for 21 days. (Reply to this)

	nyiragango 2005-10-23 10:23 pm UTC (link)
	Last year, I did a feminist reading of Genesis 1-3 and wrote a brief paper on it. (Reply to this)

	quarkflavor 2005-10-23 11:42 pm UTC (link)
	first year: I was an assistant stage manager for above-mentioned buenos aires opera group, and was in a medieval liturgical drama. (Both should have been full credit projects, but I pretended they were half so I could do them both. Lesson I learned: don't do that.) second year: Another medieval music drama. this year: ? (Reply to this)

	datclaiborne 2005-10-24 02:07 am UTC (link)
	Just a quick related question: What is the Oberlin website for information on winter term? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	greenbeetle 2005-10-24 03:51 am UTC (link)
	http://www.oberlin.edu/wintertm/ (Reply to this) (Parent)

	getpeached 2005-10-24 05:18 pm UTC (link)
	I interned at Planned Parenthood of Western PA and wrote a paper about what I did. It was amazingly awesome. (Reply to this)

	bardilicious 2005-10-25 12:28 am UTC (link)
	Last year I read the complete works of Shakespeare (minus the sonnets.) Thirty seven plays in one month, sitting on my couch at home. Worst idea EVER (Reply to this)

flordecatalunia
2005-10-25 05:24 am UTC (link)

First year: Spent a month in Barcelona doing a project on manifestations of Catalan nationalism. Read: I walked around and enjoyed myself, then wrote a diary-esque paper (which developed into second year winter term project and current private reading).

Second year: I read lots of Spanish & Catalan drama post 1975 (Franco's death) and write a paper in Spanish about how Franco's death may have influenced the cultural revitalization in Catalonia.

This year: I'm thinking of doing a sort of educational psychology project, juxtaposing my experiences as a piano student and my experiences as a mock trial coach.

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	magicmethyl 2005-10-25 05:36 am UTC (link)
	For science majors, WT is a really great time to get research experience if you can't commit to a semester of research. (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2005-10-27 02:09 am UTC (link)
	I composed some music for my first one, taught basic reading to some adults and ESL students my second year, and went to Hawai'i and transcribed a lot of yummy Hawaiian music for my last Winter Term. (Reply to this)

sunsetscreamer
2005-10-27 10:16 pm UTC (link)

1st year: Poetry and Prose workshop, run by senior creative writing majors... pretty fun, and great for putting together an application portfolio for the REAL CRWR 201
2nd year: teaching internship at St. Anthony school of padua in St. Louis MO, staying with Oberlin Alumns. Best idea ever. Got this through office of career services
3rd year: the above-mentioned triumph in Terezin project
this year: I will be studying Arabic at the winter term language institute of American University Cairo in Egypt.

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	thecraftybitch 2005-10-29 01:30 am UTC (link)
	this. (Reply to this)

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