“Pretty sure I just witnessed a meeting of the Grinnell Illuminati.”
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"‘My daughter’s mother and my mother’s daughter.’ Is that chiasmus or antimetabole?" #DemsInPhilly #geektest
- Doug Hess ’91, assistant professor of political science, Twitter
"My fave Grinnellian is whoever wrote Mary Oliver’s poem ‘Wild Geese’ in the library basement bathroom stall. I think about that poem a lot."
- Stella Gatzke ’17, Twitter
Meeting with prof about their next tutorial and they’re like ‘I’m either going to teach about Calvin and Hobbes or bananas. The fruit.’
- Mollie Blahunka ’17
I wish people in the real world understood me like Grinnellians understand me.
- Kimmie Kasperitis '15
“Even the innocent claim of being apolitical is, in the end, a ‘political’ stance.”
- Jan Gross, Seth Richards Professor in Modern Languages (senior faculty status), in “Whose right to ‘be political’ — yours, mine, ours, or theirs?” in the Des Moines Register, Oct. 16, 2015
“As a writer, I am constantly collecting stories to use in my work, which I then return to these communities when I am doing public artwork. I feel like I, myself, am learning more about Iowa with each project I do.”
- Molly Rideout ’10 on Talk of Iowa, Iowa Public Radio, Oct. 14, 2015
"Is something still considered open to the public if a ticket costs more than $1,000 per person? #Journo questions."
- Silvia Foster-Frau ’15, Twitter
"Today in chem lab, we tested to check if our prof’s new ceramic mug had lead in the glaze. It did #applicationsofmymajor."
- Gargi Magar ’16, Twitter
"White Grinnell College van is sitting out front, bass thumping. It’s good to have the college students back in town."
- Bikes to You, Twitter