Osler's Razor

I like Northfield, too . . . have three students who go to Carleton and like it . .

My story about Northfield is: during my first year as a college-counselor at an international school in India, I was flown to the US to visit several colleges, and Carleton was one of them. The other counselors and I were housed in a historic, 1880s-era hotel on the main street in Northfield.

I had been in my new job in India about six weeks at that point . . . first overseas job. So we were staying at this hotel that looked like it was off the set of "Gunsmoke. To my surprise, our first big dinner event with the group was at an Indian restaurant, right next door to this Old West hotel in Northfield. They were very proud that they had an Indian restaurant in Northfield.

I had been doing a lot of adjusting to India up to that point . . . but I still enjoyed my dinner at the Indian restaurant in Northfield.
 

Three reasons Northfield is better than Waco:
1. It has an Indian restaurant.
2. "The Great Northfield Raid" is a better movie than either "Across the Brazos to Waco" or any of the TV-quickie movies based on the Branch Davidian raid.
3. Summer

Two reasons Waco is better than Northfield:
1. It has several great Mexican restaurants.
2. Winter

RFDIII
 

Grinnell, Iowa was another college town I visited on that trip--also a real TOWN, not a city or suburb, and pretty too.
 

enjoy your time there! definitely check out blue monday's for coffee, if you haven't yet, and the new "waffle bar" is actually not bad...
 

SG,

My Mom went to Grinnell and loved it!
 

IPLG, I liked it --Grinnell--when I visited . . . they took us to the observatory there, and we actually went to faculty homes for dinner . . . they went all out for us.

It's a place that's hard to get non-US kids interested in, though, unless they get big scholarships: small-town Midwest. But I think it'd be great.
 

I went to Beloit College and everything there smelled like Nacho Cheese. Seriously because of the Beatrice Foods plant across the river that made Doritos. They called it the Cheese Breeze.
 

On a good day in Williamsburg, you could smell the Anheuser Busch brewery. On a bad day you could smell the paper mill in West Point, Va.
 

I went to Gustavus, the Hogwarts for Swedes. I was a minority Norwegian student there--great scholarship.
 

I can't believe that you forgot 3 of Northfield's greatest qualities.

1) All the bookstores are independent (take that, Borders!)

b) The townspeople of Northfield, Minnesota defeated Jesse James when many police efforts failed.

3) I live there.