In Greece they say “Η περιέργεια είναι η αρχή της σοφίας”, curiosity is the beginning of knowledge. I sat inside the elementary building with Ardelle drawing a diagram of the pistils and stamens in a flower. Our teacher quietly called the two of us to the door and hurriedly told us to follow. As we neared the woods, a small rat was lifelessly sprawled across the path. Looking back, the dissection of a deceased, and probably diseased, rodent was decidedly not the best idea to present two...

Please share with us how you first learned about Grinnell College: In 1969, my 11-year-old father left Anthiro, a secluded village in the Greek Pindus Mountains where radios were still foreign, the cafe held the communal phone, and a singular truck arrived biweekly to deliver goods. He was put onto a bus headed to Thessaloniki, Greece where he tested into Anatolia College and the plethora of opportunities which it presented. Anatolia was originally founded in Turkey by American Congregationalists but in...