MEARS - Already eight minutes late for a meeting with English professor Alicia Morrow that was scheduled for 10:30 last Thursday morning, second-year student Cameron Taylor rushed up the stairs of Mears Cottage, entered Morrow’s third-floor office, and proceeded to deliver over five minutes of unsolicited prefatory comments to the individual meeting that had been planned.

Thus far, throughout Simpson’s two and a half years at Grinnell, he has not taken a single class for a real letter grade. He has merely had to not fail the course in order to receive credit for it.

HARRIS - As part of its endless parade of study breaks, Grinnell recently played host to a mush study break.

Following your dreams is great and all, but in the real world, doing what you love just doesn’t pay the bills. Maybe you should’ve majored in something more marketable like I so kindly suggest every time it comes up.

Unlike high school, I think most Grinnellians would agree with me that our work is too different day in and day out to have one homework routine, like we might have had four years ago.

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BUCKSBAUM - Faculty members in the Liquor department have recently expressed concern that a number of its students have shown repeated interest in excessive amounts of theater, gathering in small groups to discuss various playwrights and impressive theater locations.

NOYCE - On Wednesday morning, Justin Mills ’12 attended his 9 AM Intro to Physics class in spite of the visible fact that he lacked the requisite sleep to present himself as a functional human being.

BURLING - Samir Khan ’12 recently turned in his final project for studio art, which Khan says was originally inspired by the wall of the Burling Library third floor bathroom.

ARH - Considering a variety of intriguing arguments, second-year Nina Purefoy injected her own critical voice into a contemporary discussion of a hotly debated issue, and according to students in her Intro to Political Science class, even went as far as to suggest that she would like to take issue with the previous assertion recently articulated.

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