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  1. Rawson/Gates Tower

    Choosing Grinnell

     

    I remember coming home from school one February afternoon and rushing to the mailbox to check on college admission letters. When I found a big red envelope that read “Congratulations!” my…

  2. The Lovable, Loquacious Residents of Lazier Fourth

    Jan 04, 2013

    Until I came to Grinnell, I had lived with my parents in Kansas City. Living in a dorm in the middle of rural Iowa has been quite a change for me. College was the first time I had to share a room…

  3. Burling Library

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    In high school, I was always one to come home after sports practice and go study in my quiet room — I concentrate more easily when it’s quiet. Before coming to Grinnell, I was nervous…

  4. Tutorial: A Laughing Matter

    Jan 04, 2013

    Author: Ross Preston '10

    Thinking back to the summer before I came to Grinnell, I recall an inordinate amount of anticipation for everything Grinnell…

  5. Alternative Break and Our Dream Man

    Jan 04, 2013

    Issue:  Spring 2009

    When my fellow Alt Breakers and I started to give each other nicknames, I knew all barriers between us had vanished. It surprised me — after less than a week together on…

  6. Lindy Hopping Around the World

    Jan 04, 2013

    “So what kind of dancing do you do?” my grandmother asked me when I visited her for lunch one day this past summer. “Swing,” I tell her again and then try to explain a little better. “Like Lindy…

  7. It’s All in the Palate

    Jan 04, 2013
    It has been almost one year since I was in South India, and the memory that still elicits an intense visceral reaction is the food. Show me a…
  8. Two Grinnellians use theit laptops in the Grill on bright yellow and red chairs

    Art We Won’t Forget

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    Directly in front of me as I sit in The Spencer Grill, four banners hang from the second- floor balcony. Eighteen feet tall and four feet wide, the banners are covered in pictures,…

  9. Professor Tyler Roberts gives lectures to a religious studies class in Steiner

    Religion at Grinnell

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    Religious? Me? Absolutely not. As far as I was concerned, religion was at the center of many of the world’s problems. In general, I held a particular dislike toward religion — too many…

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