First Days at Grinnell!!

Hello!  My name is Katie, I am a first year student at Grinnell College in Iowa.  As I went about the college application process my senior year, I found that information about first year experiences was not as readily available as I had hoped (at any school, not just Grinnell).  So what I decided to do, for my friends, family, and other prospective students looking at Grinnell, was to start a blog in the hopes that it provides interesting and fun information about Grinnell and also will help with the decision on where to attend college!  That being said, I am posting this at the end of the first full day of New Student Orientation (NSO).  I live in Rose Hall and I will post pictures at some point of my room and dorm!

A little about myself: I am from Boise, Idaho.  I am a runner but due to an injury I am not running cross country this year for Grinnell, but I did run for my high school.  I love pretty much every subject!  I took 3 years of Ceramics, 3 ½ years of science, 4 years of math and English, and 2 years of German.  As of right now I would like to attend medical school to become a practicing physician of some sort, but I do not know what I want to major in!

Anyways here is a brief overview of my first day and a half at Grinnell!

 

When I arrived on campus, my mom and I went to do lots of paperwork stuff, I got my Pioneer – One card (p-card) that is used at the dining hall, bookstore, to get into all the buildings etc., we turned in the last of my financial paperwork, and checked in with the Health Center to make sure I had everything in order. After all the not so fun stuff was over, I got to move into my room!  My roommate was already on Campus for a pre-orientation program so she helped me move in!  Again, I live in Rose Hall on the first floor so at least I didn’t have to haul my stuff up to the third floor.  East campus are the only dorms in air conditioning which is quite lovely right now as the humidity here is anywhere between 70%-100%.  My first night was rough, I didn’t sleep hardly at all but hopefully it will get better!  Today we had breakfast with our Tutorial professor.  My tutorial is on Failure and I’m really excited for it!  Then we had a class photo (all 438 of us stuffed onto one side of the gymnasium……it was not good.  As well as a welcome ceremony from many members of the Grinnell staff and students.  I had lunch with my families and then I had to say good bye to my mom and dad L After, they kept us super busy.  We had floor/dorm meetings and Community Values sessions on Harm Reduction and Self Governance (both interesting but I won’t bore you with the details!). Tonight we could attend a “Pub Night” to learn more about Harm Reduction and alcohol or a grocery bingo!  I went to Bingo with my roommate and a few other girls, I won an underbed shoe organizer which was really neat! 

 

So that was pretty much my day, I will try to post again near the end of NSO with more information about Grinnell! J