Why Do You Love Grinnell?

Dairy_State_K8
Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:29:29 +0000

Don’t interpret the lack of responses here as anything negative–it’s just that M’s Mom really hit the nail on the head. We looked at eleven LACs including Kenyon, Carleton, Macalester, Denison, St Olaf & Lawrence, in addition to state schools. We have found everything M’s Mom says to be true (except we don’t have first hand experience with the sports teams).

And the activities the college provides are amazing-- son got to MEET world-renowned trumpeter Wynton Marsalis when he was at Grinnell this month for a free concert.

I have read comments about Grinnell being in the middle of a cornfield. Well, yes, it’s Iowa and there is a lot of corn surrounding the town of Grinnell. But the campus and the surrounding neighborhoods have big, old, beautiful trees. So what if there’s corn a mile away? It’s not like you can see it from the campus!