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    Tales of a Transfer

    As my parents helped me unload the station wagon and carry my belongings up four flights of stairs on that hot afternoon in late August, the realization that this was the place where I would spend…

  2. One Enchanted Evening

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    I spent spring break of my third year in a car, driving across the country. Dan, a student at Williams College, and Sara, a theatre major at the University of Washington, met me in…

  3. The Joys of Jane Austen and 16th-Century Midwifery Manuals

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    Basically, I knew from the time I learned to read I needed to be an English major in college. I love to read and I love to talk about books — what major could suit me better? Unfortunately…

  4. My Mad Love for Photocopying

    Jan 04, 2013

    Most mornings, I work at Carnegie Hall, copying, smiling, and helping my work supervisors and professors with clerical work. I really appreciate the job because it has helped me to get to know a…

  5. Learning through Teaching

    Jan 04, 2013

    I didn’t come to Grinnell intending to become a teacher. I came to Grinnell to major in English, discuss James Joyce and Anna Nicole Smith (R.I.P.) with roommates until 3 a.m., and learn the ins…

  6. Having Due Fun with Fondue

    Jan 04, 2013

    Author:  Elizabeth Bologna ’08

    “There’s nothing to do!” It’s the mantra of young adults everywhere, the perennial complaint of high schoolers and college…

  7. Love in the Time of Dengue

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    Before going abroad, Grinnell students must attend an informational session about all the terrible things that can happen to you (but probably won’t) in order to prepare you to deal with…

  8. Once Upon a Time

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    As soon as I learned to read, I was never without a book. Often the characters were just as real to me as my siblings. When my father took me and my cousins out on forced-march hikes to…

  9. The Midnight Flight of the Mattress Riders

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    Beneath Grinnell’s academic veneer, there lies a secret world. In this world, shadowy figures converge by a signal known only to them, unleash weeks of pent-up glee, and vanish in the haze…

  10. At Home in a New World

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    I remember pulling up in the car to Lazier Hall on the first day of New Student Orientation. Lazier, the white-stone residence hall where I was going to live for my first year of…

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