“We don’t get to choose…”

From the cover of Oberlin College’s Spring/Summer 2020 Alumnae Magazine, written in white on black background:

_{“We don’t get to choose}

_{when we were born.}

_{We don’t choose what}

_{natural disasters,}

_{epidemiological emergencies,}

_{stock market crashes,}

_{tyrannical regimes, or}

_{wars our generations}

_{face.  We only get to}

_{choose how we react.”}

Oberlin Professor Wendy Beth Hyman in a message

To her (suddenly departing) students on March 11, 2020