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In general Ames is a college...
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  • By Burgfresh on October 5, 2002
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    In general Ames is a college town. The university is what brought me to Ames and will bring me back if I ever graduate.

    My first semester at ISU was a great time, I was finally on my own.(pic. is of one of the towers that I lived in my freshman year)

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  • By jpaustin on October 5, 2002
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  • You must:
    1. Visit the university.
    2. Have a beer at the Lost and Found Lounge and/or Whiskey River.
    3. Eat at Cafe Northwest.
    4. Visit the public library--apparently, it's one of the best in the country.
    5. Go to the art gallery.
    6. Visit Big Table Books on Main St.--great selection of writers teaching at ISU and University of Iowa.

    Well, Ames will always be the site of my renewal: before I got here, I'd spent most of a year waiting tables and generally doubting myself on several fronts. Getting into ISU's English graduate program and moving here from Ohio signaled the end of my career as a server and the beginning of my (hopeful) career as a writer and professor.

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    VEISHEA. Sometimes there are...
  • By OrdWhite on October 5, 2002
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  • VEISHEA. Sometimes there are riots, once there was a murder, some years it's just too cold to go outside. But you should try it anyway. Nothing like Central Iowa in April...

    Seven drunken roomates, a wolf, and a blind, deaf, and retarded puppy. What do you think happened? Hint: The puppy is still alive.

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  • By kim83_50158 on May 3, 2003
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  • Campanile - Ames
    Campanile
    by kim83_50158
    This is where like thousands of alumni and their families, not to mention the entire student body and some of their families, and the faculty, etc come out for a great weekend of fun...
    There's a parade and everything and then open houses, and like everything else.....

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