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Northfield’s motto is displayed on the welcome signs from the Minnesota highways: "Cows, Colleges, and Contentment." Indeed, one could extrapolate a lot from this motto. For one, there are colleges here! But it also gives a good indication of the kind of life Northfield citizens live. It’s an extremely quiet town, with a quaint main street and a few scattered stores and restaurants. And, like the rest of Minnesota, Northfield is pretty cold in the winter. Students appreciate Northfield’s proximity to Minneapolis, a city Carleton students almost uniformly enjoy and often frequent on weekends or during the summers when they offer a number of internship opportunities. Goodbye Blue Mondays is the prototypical college town coffee shop, filled with kooky art and a good mix of students, professors, and people from town. Blue Mondays really is the place to be off-campus, and during the late afternoon and evening it can be a tough task to find a seat. None of the three local bars that Carleton students visit are legitimately great, but each has its positives. The Rueb ‘N Stein is basically a redneck bar: a lot of wood paneling, pool tables, an interesting clientele, as well as a happy hour with free buffalo wings. Until the recent statewide ban, the Rueb was one of the last places in town to allow smoking indoors. The Contented Cow is the most upscale of the town bars, and is meant to be a British-style pub. They serve good, expensive beer, so it’s the sort of place you go to chat with friends or have a beer with a professor. The Tavern is notable mostly for its half-price wine night, which brings basically every senior to the bar and features countless messy re-tellings of stories from back in the day. Northfield’s park is a place for innocent escape. On any given spring day, there are students tossing Frisbees, swinging on the swing set, sliding down slides, or perhaps just picnicking on the grass. Sure, Carleton has a lot of green space, but it’s nice to be a part of the greater community sometimes.

In 1867, Charles Goodsell and Charles Augustus Wheaton donated two ten-acre properties to erect Carleton College’s campus. The Cowling Arboretum was created sixty years later and is now the environmental heart of Carelton’s campus. It encompasses 880 acres of forest, field, and floodplain, and the trails go on for miles and miles. The arboretum was conceptualized by the artist Christopher Williams. It’s often said that the library serves as Carleton’s de facto student center, and only part of that is because Carleton students like to study. The truth is that the library is a great spot to hang out. The boisterous top floor, filled with collaborative work areas and comfortable couches, is the place to see and be seen, with descending floors becoming less and less social. In the evenings, people wander from table to table to chat, which prevents the completion of homework but provides a stellar outlet for gossip. Carleton’s student center isn’t flashy, but it is a major hub for students. The mailboxes, snack bar, bookstore, newspaper, and radio station are all based here, as are some recreational options like pool, ping-pong, and outdated video games. Day or night, you’ll see students shooting the breeze, eating unhealthy fried food, petitioning for certain causes or student organizations, filming movies, playing piano, and on Fridays, buying flowers for friends. Carleton owns 800 acres of prairie adjacent to the campus and takes very good care of every one of them. There are jogging and biking trails, restored prairie plants, swimming holes, fire pits...really everything you’d need to enjoy the great outdoors. In the warmer months, there’s nothing quite so sublime as a bonfire deep in the Arb. Surrounded by friends and towering trees, one feels nothing so much as a profound communion with nature. The arboretum is arguably Carleton’s finest resource – it’s used by everybody, from biology classes to itinerant student fishermen – and one of the best spots for hanging out. Carleton’s main quadrangle is called The Bald Spot. Unlike other colleges, this isn’t a fenced-off, untouched patch of grass. In the winter, the college floods the whole thing with water, creating two excellent rinks for skating and broomball. Come spring, the Bald Spot is the site for tossing a Frisbee, skimming over homework, and half-hearted attempts at tanning. The Watson Japanese Garden is regarded as one of the best gardens of its kind in America. It’s a beautiful showpiece, expertly maintained by doting gardeners and respected by all who see it. It’s really that awesome. The location – tucked behind Watson Hall in a quiet corner of campus – keeps the crowds away, and ensures that the garden remains a place of tranquility and peace. The Watson Japanese Garden has a reputation as a kind of stoner’s haven, which is only partially justified and does a disservice to what is probably Carleton’s most impressive piece of campus art.

Goodhue Hall is the dorm farthest away from the main attractions of campus. It’s not beautiful, and it’s not convenient – unless you exercise a lot, in which case this is where you want to be, right next to the Recreation Center and the Arboretum. Even still, Goodhue is filled with freshmen and seems like a fun place to be (if you live there and are a freshman). Maybe you’re in Myers Hall or Musser Hall, two nearly identical attempts at Modernism occupying similar positions on the east and west sides of campus. Both have small rooms, sterile design, and convenient access to dining halls and classrooms. What if you’re one of the lucky freshmen who gets to live in an older, more picturesque dormitory? Nourse Hall, for example, is a stunning building with many two-room doubles. Many freshmen also live in “the Complex,” three connected dormitories (Davis, Burton, and Severance Halls) also connecting to a dining hall and the campus center. These beautiful buildings, designed at the turn of the twentieth century and executed by master builders (probably), have a good mix of all the class years except sophomores, who generally have the worst luck in the housing lottery and have to live in places like Goodhue and Myers. There are two dorms that freshmen don’t live in, though. Severance, with its suite-style living, has been judged inappropriate for freshmen by the authorities, and Evans Hall – a Gothic beauty and easily the most visually arresting dormitory on campus – has a baffling arrangement whereby the halls are arranged vertically rather than horizontally. Students get to their rooms by taking one of five staircases, each about 20 feet from another, and once in their rooms cannot move horizontally across the building; they must descend and then walk across the ground floor hallway to another staircase. The confusing layout and decent-sized suites, however, make Evans a great place to party.

Carleton is a Division III school with 19 varsity teams, 23 club teams, and a host of intramural options. Cross-country, swimming, and diving are generally the best regarded athletic programs at Carleton, and these teams are regularly some of the best in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. In 2006, the men’s basketball team tied for first place in the MIA Conference, and in 2005, women’s volleyball was the conference title runner-up. Club sports, as at other liberal arts schools, are often as popular (if not more so) for students and fans as the varsity sports. Rugby and ultimate Frisbee both field big teams and big turnouts for their games. The ultimate Frisbee team has been a national contender for the title on consecutive occasions. There are two popular sports at Carleton: Frisbee and basketball. However, Frisbee dominates every sport in its path. Most students at Carleton College have competed in an intramural Frisbee match at some point during their Carleton educations. Moreover, the Carleton Ultimate Team (men’s team), Gods of Plastic (men’s team), and Syzygy (women’s team) are always competitive at the National Championships. At a distant second, basketball is popular sport at Carleton College. At the height of basketball season, many Carleton students paint their chests, bringing D’s and fences to cheer on their defense, and they often chant throughout the entire game.