A Day in the Life of...
8 a.m. Alarm goes off.
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Followed to Grinnell
Students normally think of college as a time to leave home and break away from their families. This isn’t the case for Nick ‘04 and Amy ‘06 Malinowski, originally from Dodgeville, Wis. Their family, which started the moving process to Grinnell when Nick and his dad moved here in the summer of 2000, completed the process last summer. Along with her mom, Amy joined Nick and her dad in Grinnell after she graduated from high school in June.
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Who are we losing?
Profiles of a few of the Grinnellians graduating at end of this semester
Unfinished business
More Grinnellians know Nick Wagner than Nick Wagner knows Grinnellians. Or at least they think they do.
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‘Yay, Twins!’
During one of the accepted students’ weekends last April, the admissions office read a list of achievements of the class of 2006. Among the items announced to about 100 students and their parents was that two more sets of twins would be entering Grinnell’s student body.
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After school, more school
Travel has always been a big part of Melissa Andrykowski’s life, so she was disappointed when, due in part to the events of Sep. 11 and her father’s illness, she had to scrap her plans to study abroad last year. “I had enough credits to graduate early,” she said. “I decided I wanted to do something different and travel in that semester.”
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Graduating after graduation
Susan Hughes graduated last semester. She’ll graduate again this semester. Though she earned a degree in Chinese last year, she decided to stick around and earn her degree in math as well. “It’s only another three or four months,” she said. “For another major, it’s totally worth it. I wouldn’t be able to go back and do this later in life.”
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Sticking around town
When Barbi Rodriguez decided to graduate in seven semesters, it wasn’t because she wanted to skip town early. She plans to stay Grinnell next semester. “I’m not so much in a hurry to leave as I am to stop school for the time being,” she said. “I like it here. I have an apartment. I want to see my friends.”
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Changed perspective
On Brandon Zicha’s first day at Grinnell, he wore a pair of cargo shorts, a T-shirt that said, “ORGANIZE,” suspenders and a derby hat. The founder of the Grinnell Socialists admits that, at the time, he was “a fairly convinced Marxist.”
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New challanges abroad
Like most college kids, Julie Dona has spent her life as a student in the traditional sense, learning through school and classes.
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Sweaters and boys
“This is my famous, ridiculous post-graduation plan,” grinned Shira Fagan. “I applied for a Wilson Grant to start a business that sells sweaters that smell like boys.” Inspired by the song “The Sweater” by Meryn Cadell and her own fondness of sweaters and boys, Fagan determined that “if I get the right combination of smells together and market it the right way, I can make a killing off of 13-year-old girls.”
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