Report: Students Can't Wait To Go Home, Miss Grinnell
An intense workload has left Grinnell College students craving a break in which they can quickly reminisce about the very place that plays host to their intense workload.
“Man, I'm going to miss Grinnell,” said Naomi Tapenga '12, who will return to her home in Cleveland, OH for five weeks before returning to Grinnell. “This place just grows on you. I won't be able to forget the memories I just had here.”
Though some students may vacation or travel to a friend's house, a PioneerWeb survey assessing students' projected attitudes over Winter Break revealed that approximately 55% of students would begin missing Grinnell by New Year's. Overwhelmingly, students selected the answer, “This is kinda fun, but I'd rather be at Harris.” The next highest answer related to sleep, as 18% of students said they, “Will have no defined attitude since the majority of the day will be spent sleeping or recovering from recently being asleep.”
In a related story, the Center for Off-Campus Study estimates that two-thirds of the students studying abroad next semester can't wait to live in a new culture that isn't as fun as Grinnell.
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