Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Tag: Rose-Hulman

Traditional four-year university is increasingly a luxury product for the elite

I’m not sure four-year university makes sense anymore given how much it costs.

15 March 2023
Briefly back on the “radio”

I got to help relaunch WMHD, the (now online) radio station of my alma mater.

25 May 2020
How to make a bumper sticker in the 1980s

I found a couple old bumper stickers from my college radio days. I designed them myself, by hand, as we all had to in the 80s.

6 December 2019
The high cost of college today and why I’m disappointed in my alma mater

My alma mater, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, accepted our youngest son into their next Freshman class. But he’s not going, in part because he would leave there more than $200,000 in debt to do it. I’m deeply disappointed.

17 August 2018
Paul McCartney kind of saved my life once; he has no idea of course

A story of pushing through when I wasn’t sure I wanted to continue this life.

20 June 2018
single frame: Rose-Hulman Lamborghini

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31 May 2018
Knowing when to quit

I think our bodies and minds just know when it’s time to quit something we’re doing. But often it’s hard to honor that.

3 March 2017
The Electric Breakfast

I was the morning DJ on WMHD in the early 90s, and that experience was much like blogging is for me now.

17 February 2017
Captured: Rose-Hulman spring morning, 1988

Down the Road is on hiatus, returning Monday, 26 September. I’m rerunning old posts in the meantime. As a boy, summer was my favorite season, but as I grew up spring began to overtake it. I remember well the day that spring clinched the top spot. It was the day before I took this photograph,…

14 September 2016
Unlit bonfire Canon PowerShot S95 2015 The Rose-Hulman bonfire before being lit, illuminated by overhead fireworks.

24 September 2015
You know your bonfire is outrageous when the EPA gets involved

The EPA demands that an impact statement be filed before it is lit. The local airport routes landing airplanes around it. Its intense, radiating heat evaporates falling raindrops well before they hit the ground and repels all but the boldest spectators. It’s the homecoming bonfire at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and it’s massive. Stepping back, the fire…

23 September 2015
Rose-Hulman, Spring, 1986

What was I doing on the roof of my residence hall that spring day my freshman year of college? Nothing more nefarious than taking photographs. I’m sure the administration would not have approved of me being up there, but when an upperclass friend with an illicit building master key bade a few of us come, we went.…

18 February 2015