“Three years at Grinnell and I finally learned that Iowa nice is when you’re really polite but you still vote for/endorse Chuck Grassley.”
Quote Board
“An incredible three days with these grinnell college women in tech — this is what a grinnell computer scientist looks like.”
- Sarah Trop ’17, Twitter
“Every time you introduce yourself at Grinnell you say your pronouns and I have never been happier.”
- Annabel Higgin-Houser ’20, Twitter
"A liberal arts education doesn’t just throw a lot of knowledge at you, it actually teaches you how to seek knowledge and use it to your benefit."
- Michael Cosby, Grinnell College Liberal Arts in Prison Program participant quoted in “Who Deserves a Liberal Arts Degree? For Inmates, It’s a Way Out,” published Oct. 26, 2016, in YES! Magazine
“Pretty sure I just witnessed a meeting of the Grinnell Illuminati.”
- Susanne Bushman ’16, Twitter
"‘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