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There are the rich kids from Chicago who use their parents' money to drink themselves stupid at the bars every night of the week. There are the honors students who take school seriously and are involved in tons of activities. There are the foreign kids who are studying at the library constantly. There are the grad students who are aspiring writers, med students and law students who you'll find hanging out in all the coffee shops (and you wish they would leave so you can find somewhere to sit).

I'll give you a combination of my own stereotypes of Iowa and ones that came up when I Google searched "Iowa Stereotypes". For some reason, when everyone thinks of Iowa, they think of a giant, flat field of corn where everyone drives their tractors to school. or horses. Oh, and apparently we're drunk. All the time. Because of Football. And we don't do anything except watch our flat fields of corn grow. It's also a stereotype that all of the people that didn't get in at University of Illinois comes to University of Iowa. And for some reason, despite the supposed perpetual drunken state we're all in, The UI community is thought to be extremely conservative.

Many people have the preconceived notion that there is nothing to do in Iowa - that all of the students sit around in a corn field and watch grass grow.

That Iowa is only a party school.

That it is a complete party school and bar scene and hard to get work done and do good in class.

Drinking school. Friendly Iowans.

We party a lot, lots of bars, most people drink

They're all drunks.

Well, The major ones are that everybody is from Illinois, and it does seem that way sometimes. Another is that people from Iowa wear jean shorts, or as we call them, "Jorts." The worst one, by far, is that Iowa is a school that takes University of Illinois rejects