Issue Date: 
November 20, 2008

Grinnell College is just one part of Grinnell, Iowa.  Read about students coming from abroad to Iowa, seeing all of Iowa on the RAGBRAI bike tour, exploring the city of Grinnell, and Squirrels! Squirrels! Squirrels!

Edited by Molly Rideout '10.

  • Molly Rideout '10
    But let me share with you a little secret…: academia gives you permission to write papers about some of the coolest things in existence, some things you’d never even been able to mention to a teacher in 11th or 12th grade
  • Gretchen Aikens '12
    At 2 a.m., we confront the morning breeze and walk downtown. The synchronized stoplights serve as a guide to Main Street and finally to the Danish Maid Bakery
  • Glenda Lopez '12
    As I later found out, 59 other students from 33 countries around the world had also arrived in Grinnell on the same day.
  • Hugh Redford '10
    Nowhere else would you be able to find so many friendly people statewide willing to put up with thousands of sweaty, dirty cyclists.
  • Sandra Torres '11
    My bubble journey began by running into a sea of bubble wrap extending from one end of the hall to the other.
  • Jacob Gjesdahl '10
    My summer had lots of great memories, from wrangling goats to the goat that always yelled if we didn’t give her corn, to more peaceful moments examining the impact on vegetation.
  • Ross Preston '10
    What was it about Grinnell that everyone said was so different and progressive? For me, the answer was the school has a fake newspaper.
  • Debora Berk '12
    There is so much more to the town of Grinnell than a college.
  • Aki Shibuya '11
    Our squirrels help enhance the Grinnell College experience (they’re like members of our student body, only with a bushy tail).
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