Questions for current/past Grinnellians

_Silence
Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:04:14 +0000

1.) It depends on your income I’d say. In general the Finaid office works with you and they are really generous. I’ve heard some upper middle-class students complain about the finaid but I can’t really say anything about that.

2.) You should be fine doing this. I can’t guarantee you that there won’t be someone who ostracizes you for being slightly conservative but a lot of students carry a whatever-attitude. I can’t speak for all, of course, but in my opinion most will accept conservative ideas if you accept their liberal viewpoints. But likely people will challenge your viewpoints. I know that I do it all the time. Really all I can say is that even for Grinnell I am very liberal but I do accept conservative as a point of view if a.) the person tolerates my views and b.) the person will not run away screaming if I start a heated debate about it; it’s just something I feel like doing every now and then. So really, you should be fine.

3.) They do what they do at other colleges: They party, they go out for food, they go see movies or sometimes a play, they just hang out…