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What’s your favorite place on campus? Why?

  • Keven Tell '09 in Stimson House
    I like Stimson House the most...since it is the intercultural center on campus, I'll usually come across one of my friends there. I have a lot of fond memories of living there last year, and having a wonderful time talking, watching bad TV, and YouTubing with friends.
  • Liz Evison '10
    My favorite place on Carleton's campus is the linguistics lab in Goodsell Observatory. I could keep working on linguistics there in that beautiful old building indefinitely. It has a good couch to nap on and a blackboard that's great for hashing out a syntactic tree of a sentence in an obscure language.
  • Margaret Taylor '10
    There's this place in the Arb where you're up on a little cliff, and there's a stream running along below you. In May there are violets there. Violets that come in not just purple but white and yellow. Violets that grow like weeds.
  • Toff
    The CMC (for a mouse for “elevenses”), Chaney House (for a nap in a sock drawer), Parish House (for TV and a rub).
  • Julia Busiek '09
    Fall: the Hill of Three Oaks. Summer: Middle of the Cannon River. Spring: Mai Fete island, anywhere in the Arb, and West Gym Fields at Frisbee practice. Winter: the Libe
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  • Collin Hazlett '12 in Goodsell Observatory
    It's a three-way tie between Goodsell Observatory, the Chapel, and Scoville. I don't have any classes in Scoville, but it looks like a castle and it smells so nice inside (Scoville Scent is another of the incredible smells of Carleton, right up there with Chocolate Malt O' Meal).
  • Brian Kilgour '11
    I love my room this year in Stadium, but Sayles-Hill is a pretty great place to meet people and eat and study. The Japanese Garden is the perfect place to relax and read philosophy.
  • Caroline Giese '11 in the LDC
    I love the Cowling dance studio because it is where I am able to express myself through movement almost every day.
  • Chase Kimball '10
    There are two comfortable chairs in the hall next to the Great Hall. They're backed up against large windows with great light, and I love to read there. It's nice because sometimes a friend will walk by and if they want they can plop onto the chair next to me and we can catch up for a little while and then they'll walk on again and I'll continue reading until some other friend walks by. It's one of my favorite spots: productive, social, beautiful. If you come to Carleton, you better not take my spot until I graduate.
  • Claire Weinberg '12 in the Gould Library Athenaeum
    I love the Bald Spot, especially lying in the grass at night and looking at the stars. I’ve done this quite a bit and it never gets old (where I’m from, there’s too much light pollution to see any stars). I’m also fond of the LDC (Language and Dining Center), because it’s where I get to see my friends at the end of the day, and sit around for way too long drinking tea and laughing (hopefully not at the same time).
  • Avantika Jalan '10
    I love the Goodsell building. I have a fascination for telescopes.