College Overview: Grinnell

Grinnell: Dr. Educationalbliss, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Corn
Grinnell is not for everybody. You need to be OK with not living in a city, or even a place where you could get all the amenities of most places. Grinnell (the town) has fewer than 10,000 people, so you need to be fine with living almost all of your life on-campus. That being said, life on campus is wonderful. While the college is small, with only about 1600 students (another thing you need to be OK with), it's not like you know everyone, or everything about everyone. Also, I cannot imagine goin...

Grinnell: Grinnell College
great professors, small class size, it's really great school if you want to have your college life in peaceful environment with kind professors and friends, it's your school. But as it is in RURAL, it might be boring to some students.

Grinnell: Grinnell: Tales from a Cornfield
First thing about Grinnell, it is small. Campus is approximately two blocks by four blocks, and nothing takes more than about five minutes to walk to. Classes are small, the dorms are small, and you see the same people over and over. I personally love how close you can get to people here, but don't come expecting to be one of thousands of students, or to be able to hide in the back of a class to avoid participating. And, like it or not, Grinnell is in the middle of Iowa, with cornfields ...