Since arriving at Oberlin, I’ve noticed that I’ve spent much of these past three years attempting to define my home, and what it means to be home. I think often times, when people leave home, the place they grew up in, and go off to school, the distinction between your home at school, and your home where your family lives becomes blurred. Many of my friends from school felt that once they had completed their first year of school, the place where they had grown up no longer felt like home, or a place they particularly wanted to return to. For my first and second year of school the opposite had always been true for me, and I’d found that where I was born and raised continued to be a place of comfort and necessity. Although now I wouldn’t go so far as to say that Oberlin is my new home, it has begun to form into a place of reliability, if not only because of longevity. I think that home is transient and that’s what I have attempted to convey in my mapping project. One’s home can take on any form, shape or size.
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