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  1. Iowa Collegiate Math Competition

    The Iowa Collegiate Mathematics Competition was held in Grinnell on Saturday, March 13. It is a team competition lasting three hours, with each team having up to 3 people. Fourteen Grinnell College…

  2. Learning about Learning

    Jan 04, 2013

    Change often happens without notice. One day, I’m just a student, taking classes, thinking about ideas — and suddenly the school year is nearly over, and it hits me just how much I’ve learned,…

  3. Students happily converse as they listen to the band Millard Fillmore in the Pub

    Ye Newe Pub

    Jan 04, 2013
    The year is 1984. The legal drinking age in Iowa rises to 21. The state’s largest vendor of beer, according to legend, loses three-quarters of its customers. Two years later, the Grinnell College…

  4. Tales of a Transfer

    Jan 04, 2013

    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…

  5. Stargazing Amid the Cornfields

    Jan 04, 2013

    Do you know what’s really cool? Seeing the stripes on Jupiter. The craters on the moon. The Andromeda Galaxy, which is approximately 2 million light years away.

    I got to see all of them…

  6. A word about blogs

    Jan 04, 2013

    For all of you out there faithfully following my blog, you may have noticed that some older posts have just reappeared as new posts.  I am working with wonderful advisors back at Grinnell on…

  7. Grinnell well-represented in ITA men's tennis rankings

    Jan 04, 2013
    The Grinnell College men’s tennis team is well-represented in the latest NCAA Division III Central Region rankings released by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. As a team, the Pioneers are…

  8. How to Fall in Love in 30 Days

    Jan 04, 2013

     

    All it took was 30 days for me to be swept off my feet. Grinnell took my breath away from day one, and as I walked dazedly around campus, I felt a wave of relief wash over me. From the…

  9. Fall Semester: A Wednesday Abroad on the Grinnell-In- London Program

    Jan 04, 2013

    7:30 a.m.: Roommate’s alarm goes off. Some vague memories of her getting up, and then I’m unconscious.

    8:58 a.m.: Other roommate’s alarm…

  10. Student taking notes

    Write On

    Jan 04, 2013

    The Grinnell writer dropped her forehead onto her arms in abject despair. She lay there, limp and hopeless, like a corn doll abandoned in the rain. The husks of her notebooks lay about her,…

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