By Shabana Gupta
guptasha@grinnell.edu
Grinnell College’s commencement ceremony will occur in person and outdoors on the Rosenbloom Football Field this year on May 28. Fourth years will be able to bring two guests with them, and all attendees will be required to be socially distanced. The ceremony will be
livestreamed for fourth years not attending the ceremony in person and the general Grinnell community.
Students expressed excitement for the ceremony as well as apprehension for being around so many people at once for the first time in over a year.
Linnet Adams `21 said that she expects commencement to feel spaced out with less of an excited atmosphere compared to previous years. “Even though there’s a lot of seniors on campus I still think it’s going to be not as populated as we want it to be,” she said. Adams said she was apprehensive about each student having two guests when the decision was first announced, but now she plans to embrace it by inviting both of her