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1. L ISTS FEEL PRODUCTIVE!We like being productive.

2. LISTS FEEL ORGANIZED AND PURPOSEFUL As if you know what you want and you know how to get it. We like that, too.

3. THERE’S ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVISATION No list is ever complete. Every life stretches the boundaries of any list.

4 . E VERY LIS T TELLS A S TORY The story we’re telling here is this: In a small city in the heart of the country, we do dazzling, unexpected, uncommonly productive work. We’re not simply an education; we’re an experience. And when you take that experience out into the so-called real world, you discover that it works for you. And for the people you’re working and living with.

5. LIS TS ADD UP TO SOMETHING Something valuable, and practical, and purposeful. They’re like generators of new ideas, new possibilities. We like that.

A SHORT LIST OF JUSTIFICATIONS FOR

PUTTING EVERYTHING IN LISTS

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THINGS YOU WILL FIND HERE AND NOWHERE

ELSE

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1 . A (FUNDED!) INVITATION TO PROVE ITWe give out more than $350,000 total each year to students for the pursuit of independent research or creative projects. The result is that nearly every senior graduates from Knox with tangible proof that they can effectively launch their own intellectual start-up.

2. THE WAY WE WORKNamely: We put our ideas to work. One example: Experiential learning is a required part of our curriculum. Students find a mentor, write a proposal, and spend at least 40 hours on an experiential learning project — an internship, a service program, independent or collaborative research. The requirement is just a start; most students do far more.

5. IMMERSIVE TERMS Intensive programs that last a full term and tend to be described as “life-changing.” Students in Clinical Psychology Term take an internship and two advanced courses that speak directly to their experience. Students in Japan Term take courses in Japanese language, history, and Buddhism, then spend two weeks in Japan, exploring its cities, meeting with Knox alumni and local leaders, and completing research or creative projects. Students in Open Studio assemble an exhibition in studio art, working exclusively on their own projects and consulting with faculty and peers. Students in Repertory Theatre Term research, design,

construct, rehearse, and perform two full-length plays — the most comprehensive undergraduate theatre experience in the country.

3. GREEN OAKSGreen Oaks is our biological field station. It’s the second-oldest prairie restoration site in the country, 20 miles from campus, on 700 acres of land that comprises multiple habitats: lakes and streams, tallgrass prairie and old-growth oaks. The Green Oaks immersive term features interdisciplin-ary coursework, hands-on research, and the art of building a community.

4 . K NOXCORPSThe next generation of civic engagement. Current students and recent graduates work with local nonprofits to develop new initiatives. Doing good, hard, sustained work for the people around you: It’s as simple — and as forward-looking — as that.

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TRADITIONS THAT PERFECTLY

CAPTURE THE SPIRIT

OF KNOX

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4 . FLUNK DAYA (secret!) day in spring on which classes are cancelled, bells are rung, and the campus turns into a giant festival of nuttiness. Organized and run by a small, anonymous group of students.

5. I-FAIRFormally known as the International Fair. Food, music, dancing, and singing

from around the world, courtesy of our many cultural groups and students from more than 50 countries. Proud, crowded, and happily chaotic. Sample menu: fried plantains (Ghana), bulgogi (Korea), arepas (Venezuela), mango lassi (India).

2. PUMPHANDLEOn the day before the first day of fall term, everyone at Knox stands in a long, twisty line on the south lawn of Old Main. And one by one, you go down the line and shake everyone’s hand. Some people wear costumes; some people get creative with their greetings; the spirit is, shall we say, giddy. And in the end you come to know everyone at Knox, face to face, hand to hand. Democratic, humanizing, time-consuming — and totally worth it.

3. THE PR AIRIE BURNAn annual controlled burn at our Green Oaks field station, which is set on one of the oldest prairie restoration sites in America. Conducted by a professor and students from all over the map, from every discipline. A smart, necessary ecological practice. And a communal approach to joining the local ecosystem. Namesake of our athletic teams, The Prairie Fire.

1. BRONZE TURK E YThe Knox-Monmouth football game is one of the oldest college rivalries in the country (first game: 1888). The winner receives a trophy that is, yes, bronze and turkey-shaped. And the trophy is the object of many high jinks; at one point it was buried under our running track. The point being: We’re serious about athletic competition. But we’re also serious about not taking ourselves too seriously.

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A FEW EXCELLENT

SUMMER VACATIONS

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1 . BECOMING A RE AL JOURNALIS T Chelsea Embree interned as a reporter at the St. Louis Beacon, a nonprofit online newspaper. She developed and published her own stories — and she covered President Obama’s speech at Knox. “That event made me feel like a real journalist. I realized I could do this.”

2. BECOMING A GLOBAL CITIZENMax Potthoff interned with ENVIRON, an environmental consulting firm in Shanghai, China. “I felt a new kind of independence. I had to deconstruct how I knew myself as an American, and how others viewed me through my national identity. I became more conscious of my role as a global citizen.”

3. MOVING A NATION FORWARDPrajwal Tuladhar interned at the United Nations Development Programme in Nepal. “I felt like I was part of the economic and political development of Nepal.”

4 . WALK ING WITH GIANTSJessica Robinson interned at Yosemite National Park. “I worked with my mentor on surveying the giant sequoias in the Merced Grove. I’m the kind of person who needs to get out and apply what I’ve learned.”

5. PERM ANENTLY ALTERING THE ME ANING OF “CL ASSROOM”Michael Belitz interned with the Sitka Conservation Society in Sitka, Alaska. “The only way to understand an ecosystem is to go out and experience it firsthand. Having the largest intact coastal temperate rainforest as my classroom was the experience of a lifetime.” Bonus: a seven-day sea kayak trip to the West Chichagof-Yakobi Wilderness area.

6. WORK ING ON THE CUT TING EDGEMike Supej was part of a team of students working with Assistant Professor Helen Hoyt on “green chemistry” research, aimed at reducing waste and toxic byproducts in chemical processes. “Organometallic chemistry is not something that you see very often in undergraduate programs. I got hands-on experience with professional laboratory techniques.”

“THAT EVENT MADE ME FEEL LIKE A REAL JOURNALIST. I REALIZED I COULD DO THIS.”

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PEOPLE WHO DID AMAZING

THINGS AFTER GRADUATING FROM KNOX

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5. THE HE ADLINERVir Das ’02: Headliner for one of the largest comedy festivals in India. Actor in film and television; founded his own band and production company. Majored in economics and theatre.

6. THE INVESTORDesmond Fortes ’00: Environmental and social specialist at FMO, the Dutch Development Bank, investing in projects in the developing world.

7. A FE W E ARLY TR AILBL A ZERSThomas Kurtz ’50 co-created BASIC, the foundational language of computing. Susan Deller Ross ’64 is a leading figure in women’s rights; she’s the director of the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic at Georgetown University. Ismat Kittani ’51 came to Knox from Iraq, helped establish our Honor Code, and went on to become president of the United Nations General Assembly. Samuel S. McClure, Class of 1882, started McClure’s, a groundbreaking magazine of investigative journalism, with friends from Knox. Hiram Revels, Class of 1857, was the first African American man elected to the U.S. Senate and a lifelong advocate for desegregation. History matters.

8. THE ADVISORJohn Podesta ’71: Advisor to President Obama, former Chief of Staff for President Clinton, Chair of the Center for American Progress.

1. THE CEOJohn Lawler ’88: Chairman and CEO of Ford Motor China. Majored in economics at Knox; got an MBA at the University of Iowa; worked in the U.S., Japan, and Germany.

2. THE ARTIS TCami Woodruff ’10: Illustrator for award-winning animated series Archer. Author and illustrator of web comic Doomsday, My Dear. MFA, Savannah College of Art and Design.

3. THE VISIONARYMatt Berg ’00: Director of information and communications technology for the Millennium Villages Project at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Developed ChildCount+, an open- source mobile health system. Created the Last Mile Initiative, which brings basic information and communication technologies to rural African villages. One of Time’s “most influential people in the world.”

4 . THE PIONEERLara Moritz ’90: Anchors the evening newscasts at KMBC in Kansas City. Investigated animal abuse. Won two Emmys and two Edward R. Murrow Awards. Won the Amelia Earhart Pioneering Achievement Award.

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WAYS TO THINK ABOUT OUR

EXACT LOCATION

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2. THE HOME OF THE INSIDE-OUT BROWNIEAt Q’s Café. The frosting goes inside the brownie.

3. A PL ACE THAT IS CONNECTED TO OTHER PL ACESLike Chicago, which is accessible by train or car, and which has deep connections to Knox. Galesburg has one of the country’s largest freight rail yards. There’s an Amtrak station a few blocks from campus. Quietly, modestly, we’re at the center of a national network.

4 . AN OPPORTUNIT YEveryone matters here. You come, you get involved — and suddenly you’re home.

5. A CIT Y OF 33,000 PEOPLE NE AR THE ILLINOIS – IOWA BORDER Which is just true. But which means something more: It means we’re deeply Midwestern, which means we value kindness, hard work, and community.

1. A PL ACE WITH ROOTSCarl Sandburg (a plainspoken, Pulitzer Prize – winning American poet) was born here. One of the Lincoln – Douglas Debates — the country’s benchmark for political argument — was held here (at Old Main!). Generations of immigrants have built lives here. If you know your past, you can build your future.

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SMALLISH GROUPS OF

PEOPLE WHO DO BIG THINGS

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1. ALLIED BL ACKS FOR LIBERT Y AND EQUALIT YFor more than 40 years, an advocate for diversity and a support network for students, a host of speakers and performers, and the geniuses responsible for the annual Cultural Bar-B-Q Jam.

2. CATCHThe oldest continuously published literary journal in the country. Winner of many national and international awards. One of a long list of student-run media outlets, in print (other examples: The Knox Student newspaper, Cellar Door literary magazine, and journals dedicated to visual arts and theology) and online (dedicated to comedic literature, literary criticism, children’s and young adult literature, and science fiction and fantasy).

3. K NOX COMMUNIT Y GARDENJust what it

sounds like: a club, open to all, that maintains a garden. Oh, and that often organizes a seasonal festival, featuring live music and food harvested and prepared by everyone who comes.

4 . SORORITIES/FR ATERNITIESFour sororities, five fraternities, no stereotypes. Our Greek organizations are proudly unclassifiable, engaged in service, and capable of organizing events where people tend to dance in unique ways.

“NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY; NEW AUDITIONS EVERY TERM” 5. TERPShort for the Terpsichore Dance Collective. No experience necessary; new auditions every term; constantly in danger of violating the fire code because they attract such huge crowds.

6. ULTIM ATE FRISBEEThey wear impractical costumes during matches, they choose self-consciously absurd names for the team, they throw a disc down a field. They are very popular.

7. UNION BOARDThey organize and run major and minor events on campus — concerts, comedians, game nights, and so on. Well-funded, highly visible, well-nigh unstoppable.

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PLACES WHERE YOU’LL FIND

RECENT SENIORS AFTER THEY GRADUATE

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3. GOING DEEPERCheng Cheng is pursuing a doctorate in biology at Washington University. Minah Rathore is pursuing a master’s in public policy and administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Andrei Papancea is pursuing a master’s in computer science at Columbia University. We have a history of sending an unusually high percentage of alumni to top graduate and professional schools. (An excellent thing.)

4 . OUT FRONTFaras Seqi is working with the American Arab Anti-Discriminatory Committee in Washington, D.C. Franzesca Mayer received a costume design fellowship at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Linda Le Phan is chief financial and marketing officer at JHP Community Center in Chicago. This is what happens when you come from a campus where everyone feels empow- ered to push themselves, to stand up for something, to lead. You can call it excellent. We call it Knox.

1. NE ARAlison Hardie Gaines is working at the Chicago Board of Trade. Nathaniel Beck is working with the Knox-Galesburg Symphony. Michael Schroeder is a chemist at Sigma-Aldrich in St. Louis. This is one of the excellent things that happens when you have a powerful local and regional network of alumni.

2. FARKelly Vlaskamp is the international volunteer coordinator at Bridges to Community, in Nicaragua. Qijiao Fan is pursuing a master’s in marketing research and consumer behavior at IE Business School, in Spain. Kyle Cruz is working in communications at World Vision, in Thailand and Cambodia. This is one of the excellent things that happens when you come from a global campus with a longtime commitment to international experience.

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THINGS THAT TEND TO

HAPPEN IN YOUR FIRST YEAR

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2. YOU BECOME A REGUL ARAt The Beanhive (coffee), or Baked (wood-fired pizza), or Cornucopia (natural foods). People around town know your name, you know theirs, you say hello and share a little news when you see each other.

3. YOU PAINT YOUR FACE AND Y ELL A LOT Because you’ve got a friend on one of our Division III athletic teams, or you’re on one of those teams, or you just like the thrill of competitive sports, or you just like . . . painting your face and yelling a lot.

4 . YOU TAK E A SM ALL CL ASS ABOUT BIG IDE AS Namely, our First-Year Preceptorial. You choose a theme (heroism, happiness, sustainability, leadership and social change, etc.), and together with a few students and a professor you talk about it, write about it, analyze it, explore it. You become, in other words, a working member of an intellectual community.

5. YOU GET INVOLVEDYou join maybe a few too many student- run organizations, then land on a couple that really speak to you. You find a project in Galesburg that matters to you. You become, to use the official term, a neighbor.

1. YOU LIVE WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE FABULOUSLY NOT YOUIn your first year, you live in a suite of about a dozen or so students — smart, unclassifiable people from around the world who think and act in new and (happily) surprising ways. Two of the many good things about this arrange- ment: You start your life here as part of a small community of friends. And your friends look a lot like the world.

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CLASSES THAT ARE NOT

HELD IN CLASSROOMS

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1. SOF T WARE DE VELOPMENT AND PROFESSIONAL PR ACTICEIn computer science. Students work in teams on a software development project for a local organization.

2. MUSEUMS, MONUMENTS, AND MEMORY In history. Students examine local sites and museums, talk with community members, then research, build, and present an exhibition on local history. Based on campus, rooted in the region.

4 . OP TICSIn physics. Like many of our science courses, involves regular use of professional-grade equipment and instrumentation. Will feel nothing like a typical “class” and everything like “what people do when they’re trying to advance their field.”

3. URBAN AGRICULTUREIn environmental science. Year-round experiments in planting, permaculture, local food systems, and more. Much time is spent in the course’s own garden.

6. THE NAVA JO RESERVATION In educational studies. Culminates in two weeks of historically aware, culturally engaged hands-on teaching at a Navajo reservation in the Southwest.

7. DRUMMING AND DANCE IN GHANAIn dance. An exploration of the history and culture of the country, built around an extended workshop with artists at the Dagbe Cultural Institute & Arts Centre, in the village of Kopeyia.

5. K NOX IN NE W YORKIn studio art. A course in the heart of the art world. Includes visits to major museums and galleries and talks with upcoming and established artists, many of whom happen to be alumni.

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FAVORITE PLACES ON

CAMPUS

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5. M AN Y PL ACES IN THE LIBR ARYLike, say, the Finley Map Room. Or the Red Room. Or among the stacks, near a window, in the spring.

2. THE GIZMOThe unofficial center of campus — the chaos, the calm, the deep-fried. Attached to Seymour Union. Chicken strips, pizza bagels, smoothies. Everyone meeting everyone else.

3. THE COMMON ROOM IN OLD M AINWarm, glowing, pine-panelled meeting room on the second floor. Everything you do in here feels special.

4 . THE S TEPS INSIDE OLD M AINLovingly worn down by generations of students. We keep our history close.

6. THE STUDIO THE ATREThe black box theatre in the Ford Center for the Fine Arts. One hundred seats, endless possibilities. All student-run.

1. THE BASEMENT OF THE OLD JAIL Home of the bike shop. Featuring bikes, and the people who love them.

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EVENTS DURING A FAIRLY TYPICAL

WEEK IN THE SPRING

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4 . E VENTS THAT DO NOT FIT NE ATLY INTO A CATEGORYSuch as: Less Meat Monday in the caf, including a meatless haiku competition. A board game study break in Seymour Library, featuring Uno Stacko, Candyland, and light refreshments. Trivia night at the Gizmo, hosted by the Union Board. Physics Club trip to Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.

5. E VENTS ABOUT THE FUTURESuch as: An information session for creative writers looking to study abroad. An information session for City Year Chicago. A discussion of “The Landscape of Law for Knox Students,” hosted by George Pearce ’76 and featuring Professor (and Supreme Court Fellow) Lane Sunderland. A Green Jobs Workshop featuring leaders in biofuels, entrepreneurship, and sustainability.

6. E VENTS THAT HAPPEN REGUL ARLYSuch as: The weekly Japanese language table, at lunch in the Oak Room. Diandra’s Balinese Dance class. Umoja Gospel rehearsal. The Bike Club weekly ride, 10 – 15 miles, coffee and snacks provided.

1. E VENTS WHERE MUCH IS LE ARNEDSuch as: Our Spring Equinox Lecture, by journalist Kelsey Timmerman — part of our sustainability program. “Mr. Sandburg and Mr. Lincoln,” a presentation by Penelope Niven, part of the Sandburg Days Festival. “Communicating in a Global World,” the Stellyes Distinguished Lecture in Global Affairs, featuring Margery Kraus ’67, CEO of APCO. “Music and Social Change,” a lecture by Professor Thomas Turino.

2. E VENTS AT WHICH SPIRITS ARE LIF TED Such as: The Knox Jazz Ensemble with The Aaron Diehl Quartet — part of our annual Knox-Rootabaga Jazz Festival. Two concerts by the Knox-Galesburg Symphony, at the Orpheum Theatre. Senior exhibits by Ryan Hansen (Transference) and Anthony Deibner Hanson (Purposefulness).

3. E VENTS AT WHICH PEOPLE SWE ATBaseball, golf, tennis, track and field, softball (senior day!), and more.

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LESSONS LEARNED IN PROFESSOR

MARY CRAWFORD’S PHYSICAL

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1. YOU CAN GO DEEPERShelly Bhanot: “I came into the class with a broad understanding of chemistry. Professor Crawford gave me the tools to go deeper. You’re working on a molecular level. And you’re trying to understand not just what the concepts are, but what they mean.”

2. THE E X AM IS NOT THE MOS T IMPORTANT THINGMary Crawford: “Physical chemistry is the underpinning of everything. Years from now, you won’t remember the answer to problem 1 on exam 2. But you’ll understand the concepts that are beneath all sorts of questions — and that will lead you to new answers.”

3. SCIENCE IS POWERShelly: “Concepts come to life when they’re applied. You can talk about them, you can read about them — but when you work with them in the lab, when you perform experiments and apply them on a broader scale, that’s when they become real. And that’s when you see the power of science.”

4 . THIS IS THE RE AL WORLDMary: “With any concept — but especially with the hardest concepts, like quantum mechanics — it’s crucial to conduct experiments, to talk about the relevance of the concept to the real world.”

Professor Mary Crawford investigates, for example, “the rate constants of reactions of the hydroxyl radical and the chlorine atom with various anthropogenic substances.” (Ask her!)

Shelly Bhanot is pursuing a major in chemistry and is minoring in gender and women’s studies. She’ll attend medical school at George Washington University.

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A FEW EXCEEDINGLY

AMBITIOUS PROJECTS

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1. TE ARING DOWN BORDERSMarcus McGee is writing a thesis called “Corporatism, Democracy and Neoliberalism: The Political Economy of the Mexican Drug Trade in the 21st Century.” He spent nearly two weeks in Mexico, conducting interviews. “I grew up in Chicago near the West Side, and I saw a lot of the paradoxes and tragedies of drug-related violence. I lived in a gentrified neighborhood, so I had the sense of being surrounded by borders that protect some people and leave others vulnerable. This project is a building block in my own personal project of resisting violence, tearing down borders, and loving people on the other side. I think the rigorous search for truth — however we may define it — and understanding are the first steps to doing this.”

2. GIVING HISTORY A VOICE Rebekah Lauer is working on a thesis about the political consciousness of female Knox students in the 1960s and early 1970s. She conducted dozens of interviews. “Oral history is extremely important as an academic exercise and a social tool. Many of the women I interviewed had never talked about how Knox impacted their identity. Now their stories can be heard.”

3. BRINGING SCIENCE INTO THE RE AL WORLD Drew Diaz is pursuing a research project funded by the National Science Foundation; he’s presenting his findings at the American Chemical Society’s national conference. The official title of his project is “Contextualization of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction.” The idea is to design lab exercises in physical chemistry that help students connect theory to real-world applications.

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4. WRITING THE NE X T GRE AT PL AYNicole Acton won two national playwriting competitions, one of which led to a fully staged production of her play Survival Strategy at the Blank Theater in Los Angeles. (She received funding from Knox to support her trip to L.A.) Her full-length play McComb 1964 was produced at our New Plays Festival.

5. FINDING NE W WAYS TO TRE AT ADDICTION Tim O’Neal completed a research internship at a lab in Brazil; he’s also been involved in two major projects about the neuroscience of addiction. Thesis title: “The Sigma-1 Receptor: A Unique Target for Treatment of Behavioral Changes during Methamphetamine Addiction and Withdrawal.”

6. CROSSING BOUNDARIESEmily Hastings presented two projects at Horizons, our annual celebration of student research and creative work: “The History and Construction of Elizabethan English Costume” and “Dragonfly Interconnect Topology” — a computer science project she conducted with Anda Xu. Because we’re cross-disciplinary and collaborative (and ambitious) like that.

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MOMENTS WHEN PEOPLE

REALIZED THEY HAD TO COME

TO KNOX

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2. THE VISIT TO THE CL ASSAt which everyone treated you like you had something to say, and wanted to hear it. After which the professor asked you about your interests, your plans, your experience.

3. THE TOUROn which you asked the tour guide if she thought you might be a good fit for Knox, and she thought about it, and then she said, kindly and openly and simply: “Well — are you a compelling human being?”

1. THE ME AL WITH A FEW S TUDENTSAt which your host was someone from the other side of the world, with a story very different from your story (and not, say, someone who was perfectly “matched” to you) — and you understood that this was a community where every story belongs, where you’re not expected to be like everyone else. You’re expected to be yourself.

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THINGS EVERYONE WANTS

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35% students of color12% international48 states51 countries 77% of students receive financial aid20 NCAA Division III teams

50%of students participate

in off-campus study

undergraduates

1,400

courses of study

60+

Top 14 small colleges and universities sending graduates

into the Peace Corps

$350,000dedicated to student research every year

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Student to faculty ratio: 12 to 1Average class size: 16

700 acres at Green Oaks Biological Field Station

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most diverse colleges

50Top

DIVISION III ATHLETIC TE AMSBaseball mBasketball m, wCross-Country m, wFootball mGolf m, wIndoor Track and Field m, wOutdoor Track and Field m, wSoccer m, wSoftball wSwimming and Diving m, wTennis m, wVolleyball w

PRE-PROFESSIONAL & OTHER PROGR AMS

BusinessEngineeringEnvironmental ManagementForestryLawMedicineNursingOccupational TherapyOptometry

College HonorsPeace Corps Preparatory ProgramSports Studies (courses)Teacher Certification

100+student-run clubs and organizations

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Top 4% of national liberal arts colleges producing

successful Ph.D. candidates

100%of students pursue

experiential learning

Computer ScienceCreative WritingDanceEarth ScienceEconomicsEducational Studies• Elementary• Policy Studies• Secondary• Social Sciences Education• Special Content AreasEnglish LiteratureEnvironmental StudiesFilm StudiesFinancial Mathematics

Africana StudiesAmerican StudiesAnthropology and SociologyArt• DesignArt HistoryAsian StudiesAstronomyBiochemistryBiologyBusiness and ManagementChemistryChineseClassics• Greek• Greek & Roman Culture• Latin

M A JORS & MINORSFrenchGender and Women’s StudiesGermanHistoryIntegrated International StudiesInternational RelationsJapaneseJournalismLatin American StudiesMathematics• StatisticsModern LanguagesMusicNeurosciencePhilosophy

PhysicsPolitical Science• American Politics• Comparative PoliticsPsychologyReligious StudiesSelf-Designed StudiesSocial ServiceSpanishTheatre• Design and Technology• Directing• Dramatic Literature and History• Performance• Playwriting

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LIST OF ITEMS LISTED

(BY LIST)

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AAcademics, 1, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13Advising presidents, 4Allied Blacks for Liberty and Equality, 6Alumni, 4, 7 Archer, illustrator for, 4Athletics, 2, 6, 15

BBalinese Dance class, 11Bike shop, 10 Bronze Turkey, 2

CCatch, 6Cellar Door, 6Chicago, 5, 7Clinical Psychology Term, 1“Communicating in a Global World,” 11Compelling human beings, 14Computer science about dragonflies, 13“Contextualization of the Belousov-

Zhabotinsky Reaction,” 13 “Corporatism, Democracy and

Neoliberalism,” 13Covering a presidential visit, 3Cultural Bar-B-Q Jam, 6

DDoomsday, My Dear, 4Dutch Development Bank, 4

EEmmy-winning broadcaster, 4Environmental consulting in Shanghai, 3Experiential learning, 1, 3, 13

FFirst-Year Preceptorial, 8Flunk Day (don’t tell!), 2Ford Center for the Fine Arts, 10Ford Motor China, Chairman

and CEO of, 4

GGalesburg, 5, 7, 9Ghana, drumming and dance in, 9Gizmo, 10, 11Graduate school, 7Greek life, 6Green chemistry, 3Green Oaks, 1, 2

HHonor Code, 4

II-Fair, 2Immersive terms, 1India, largest comedy festival in, 4Inside-out brownie, 5Internships, 1, 3

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JJapan Term, 1

KKayaking in Alaska, 3Knox Community Garden, 6KnoxCorps, 1Knox-Galesburg Symphony, 7, 11Knox in New York, 9Knox Jazz Ensemble, 11The Knox Student, 6

LLincoln – Douglas Debates, 5

MMajors, 15Mango lassi, 2Meatless haiku, 11Most diverse colleges, 15Most influential people in the world, 4

NNepal, 3Neuroscience of addiction, 13

OOld Main, 2, 5, 12Open Studio, 1

PPeople who are fabulously not you, 8Physical Chemistry, 12Physics Club, 11Prairie Burn, 2Pumphandle, 2

QQuantum mechanics, 12

RRepertory Theatre Term, 1Research, funded, 1, 13

SSummer vacations, excellent, 3Seymour Library, 10, 11Social life, 5, 8, 10, 11Software development, 9

TTerpsichore Dance Collective, 6Traditions, 2Trailblazers, 4

UUltimate Frisbee, 6Union Board, 6, 11United Nations Development

Programme, 3Urban Agriculture, 9

YYosemite National Park, surveying

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