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Posted on Sep 27, 2014

Capable Communities

During orientation, I checked to make sure that our newest Obies are doing us Oberlin alumni proud. Spoiler alert: they are.

by maayanplaut

Community Contributor

Every year, 800 new students join our new Oberlin family. On the eighth anniversary of the class of 2010's arrival to campus, I set out to meet our newest cousins during move-in day.

...and there were some spectacular answers within those categories, too, including:

What I loved the most from this exercise was very simple: we choose Oberlin in part because of all the things we will learn, experience, and absorb here, and this will set us up to be the best version of ourselves we can be in order to make the world a better place.

That's fresh and exciting, but it's also easy to forget in these new situations — as new students, as new graduates, as new friends, employees, roommates, partners, all kinds of new and exciting things — that we bring so much to the table as well. Everything we care about and are capable of makes the Oberlin community (actually, every community we're a part of) that much more special, spectacular, and awesome.