An aerial shot of Alumni Recitation Hall on the campus of Grinnell College

 

Courtesy of Grinnell College
Issue Date: 
July 25, 2009

Just like Sarah Woolery's article, you can learn about learning in this issue of Ins & Outs.  Read about learning how a 2nd grader sees the word through theatre, learning whether one student really likes math or not, learning what kind of music you like (ABBA? John Zorn?), and learning the fate of the Powesheik skipper.

Edited by Molly Rideout '10.

  • Finally Feeling Fit
    Sunanda Vaidheesh '12
    As spring set in, my friends insisted on tree-climbing at every opportunity, though the first tree I’d ever set foot in was on East Campus only six months ago.
  • Humanities Majors Can Like Science Too
    Molly Rideout '10
    But then I had an epiphany, an epiphany that had absolutely nothing to do with challenges of double majoring or balancing schedules. The epiphany was very simple and concrete: for me, math sucked. Like really really boring sucked…
  • Act Your Shoe Size
    Kat Atcheson '12
    I was worried when I left for college that I would have to leave my childhood behind forever and completely embrace adulthood…Here at Grinnell, Little Kat is welcome, and that sense of playfulness and childhood is one of my favorite things about the College.
  • Bringing Imagination to Life
    Mitch Avitt '10
    I started with Neverland my first year at college, after my friend Barbara forced me to audition with her. It was perhaps the best thing I could have done.
  • The Beauty of Prairie Butterflies
    Paige Greenley '09
    Due to loss of habitat, the Poweshiek skipper hasn’t been spotted in Poweshiek County for many years, and Grinnell’s Center for Prairie Studies decided to investigate.
  • ABBA Fans Unite
    Rachel Fields '09
    It’s happened to me a few times at Grinnell, most markedly, when my former professor, Tim Arner, turned to me in the campus pub and said, “People who don’t like ABBA are bad people.”
  • Learning about Learning
    Sara Woolery ’11
    Suddenly, my education took on a whole new level of personal meaning…I knew how to think not just about the subject at hand, but also how to think about how I was thinking about it.
  • Options at the Dining Hall
    Gayatri Jayal ’11
    I often go to the dining hall even if I’m not very hungry, because it offers more than just food — it offers friends and acquaintances and all round, a really Grinnellian atmosphere.
  • Random Acts of Music
    Matthew Imber '11
    For me, the highlight of the organ’s Rededication Weekend was a concert by Kevin Bowyer, an organist from Scotland who specializes in “impossible music” — music previously considered impossible for a human to perform.
  • Serving the Community via Dorm Life
    Aki Shibuya '11
    I’ve thrown all kinds of study breaks, from a kindergarten theme study break — where we made goop and had juice boxes and goldfish crackers — to a candy sushi study break.
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Summer 2009 Ins & Outs