<p>Plainsman’s absolutely right. There’s no one Oberlin experience…or one [insert any college here] experience. You’re in control of your experience and you’ll skip past the aspects of Oberlin that don’t float your boat. And you’ll embrace the aspects of it that inspire you and lift you up. What you choose to experience is totally in your control and what Oberlin offers, more than most other colleges (including most other top colleges), is a breadth of opportunities. You may not go for some of those opportunities that are out there on the fringes, but they’re not there to the exclusion of things that you’ll more likely want to connect with. They’re there in addition to the things you find elsewhere…and you find attractive. Seek these things out and you’ll be fine.</p>