Questions for current/past Grinnellians

_Silence
Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:54:32 +0000

The facilities are definitely good, you can take lessons in a lot of different instruments, and there are a couple of choirs and bands. I can’t comment too much on the practice rooms and such because I am not taking any lessons, but I know that if you take lessons you can borrow the instrument and the college itself has a collection of a lot of (rare) instruments that can be borrowed.
I know a couple of people who’ve started their own bands and play every now and then. A lot of people bring their instruments and just takes lessons.
Not sure if that matters to you, but the only thing that disappoints me about music at Grinnell, is the lack of good concerts. Although there are concerts almost every weekend in Gardener Lounge, most of them sound the same to me. Outside of Indie-Soft-Rock there is few variety and I’d like to see the occasional Hard-Rock or Metal concert.

The food is better than at other colleges I guess, although chances are you also came on a good day. You can’t really complain about the food, but it tends to get really repetitive after a semester. Also, somehow the Dining Hall fails to balance - meaning on some nights there is virtually nothing to eat while on others there are so many different things. There a couple of things that bug me with the D-hall, but only because I am vegetarian. I can’t really complain though.