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Sceth
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 Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject: Stanford [Social] Environment |
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Firstly, whether or not you can answer the following questions, be sure to say whether you're at Stanford or if you'll be there from September.
I'm a non-US Stanford admit, and I will not even be able to visit the place before I enrol if I so choose. If you've been there for some months or if you know someone who has been there and has spoken much of being there, please post some of your knowledge.
One of my major concerns is roommates, and how they respond to aspy traits.
Another concern is mental demography. It is usually said that people with similarities find each other, but how true is this at Stanford? And how easy is it to associate intimately with diverse members of the population? [I tend to be very involved in the community.]
In particular, I'd like to know if the following fantasy can be realized at Stanford. [It is not critical to my university decisions but knowing beforehand will help me to gauge my expectations.]
I like the ambience that I get when I'm working in an office building surrounded by computers and stationery but only a few, if any, people, who are scantily distributed. My fantasy is to regularly get this kind of ambience in the night. I am usually extremely busy, but access to this kind of environment once a month is better than onanism. I've only experienced it late at school and other offices, but I like it. Supreme details would involve strong airconditioning from Saturday night to Sunday morning. Not realistic, but just wondering. |
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Sceth
Tufted Titmouse
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| Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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Note that I've read many of the other threads; there is no reason to repeat information established on this very site.
Thanking you in advance for specific responses. |
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wolphin
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| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:08 am Post subject: |
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I don't go to stanford so you'll have to keep that in mind. I did visit stanford once though, when traveling through california.
Ok, so "scantily distributed" seems to really describe stanford. There's a reason they call it the farm - it's a very large and spread out campus. But really no matter where you go things might be relatively crowded in the dorms, there's not much getting around that.
But still, I don't think you'd have any trouble "getting away" from people. My school is much more crowded and compact and there's nearly always some place you can go to chill and be almost alone 24/7.
My guess is that your roommate concern would be just as valid at any other US school as stanford, and actually stanford might be a bit better if you think about smarter people going there and maybe being more accepting.
As for mental demographics, well, it depends on what you mean. Obviously stanford's going to have a lot of people who were at the top of their classes and so finding "intellectual peers" shouldn't be any problem at all. If you're thinking in terms of people who want to be involved in community activities, I would imagine that there would be a significant fraction of the population who's into that as well.
I don't know about air conditioning at stanford, but when I stayed in the stanford area (a couple days in late spring) the weather was so pleasant that there was no need for air conditioning, just opening the windows wide made it very comfortable. The general consensus among everyone I asked was that except for some weeks in winter and summer, the weather was nice enough to not need strong air conditioning or heating. California weather rocks and a lot of people go to school in california for the weather.
I'm sure you'll make the right choice, obviously you're really smart cause you got into stanford and frankly almost everyone gets rejected, even some I know with absurdly high grades. So congrats  |
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Sceth
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| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:50 am Post subject: |
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Thank you.
Graces. |
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