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    Today’s the Day the College Kids Have their Picnic!

    Author:  Erin Sindewald ’08

    It is a clear blue day, the flowers are in bloom, and the birds are chirping songs of…

  2. Tilting with Windmills in Tutorial

    Jan 04, 2013

    I remember sitting at my computer, scrolling through the list of choices for my tutorial class. My eyes jumped across the screen, and my mind nearly exploded with excitement. There were so many…

  3. Check Out My New Crib

    Jan 04, 2013
  4. Self-Defining Self-Governance

    Jan 04, 2013

    Author:  Caitlin Carmody '08

    Two years ago I led a small group discussion about self-governance during New Student Orientation. I tried my best to explain the fairly nebulous…

  5. Rollicking Roomies

    Jan 04, 2013

    Author:  Mona Ghadiri '11

    Like every other eager Grinnellian, I had a countdown to the day I would get the chance to find out who my roommate would be…

  6. My Computer Outweighs Me

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    Two years ago when I was getting ready to head off to college, my parents told me I could have a laptop. Stoked beyond all reckoning, I surfed Dell’s website to decide what model I wanted …

  7. Studio Rats

    Jan 04, 2013

    When I was a little boy, I used to love to play and imagine what I was going to be when I grew up. I would take my plastic dinosaurs outside, bury them in my backyard, and then dig them up,…

  8. People Watching and Study Buddies

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    I’m a person who is very set in my habits. I get out of bed at the same time every single morning and try to go to bed at the same time every night. I go to the library pretty much every…

  9. A Pants-Optional Affair

    Jan 04, 2013

    I consider myself a pretty conservative dresser. My shorts are always mid-thigh or longer, my T-shirts cover my naughty parts in their entirety, and my swimsuit comes in only one piece. All in all…

  10. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Being a Student Adviser

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    Twelve first-years. Twelve! While staff training week taught me how to handle pretty much every conceivable conflict I might encounter as a student adviser, or S.A., it left out that…

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