Road trips don’t always have to mean stolen cars, hookers and forties. Imagine a drive that starts on a fogless afternoon in SF’s Hayes Valley, then turns south toward Los Angeles and Orange County, where stops don’t mean getting pulled over by the Camaro cops in King City. The following San Francisco stops will reinforce [...]

With the release of the Nintendo DS and Sony’s PSP, there has been a revolution in the world of multiplayer gaming on the run. No longer do gamers require cumbersome connection cables or extra adapters to play against your buddies while you’re on the go. In fact, there are many times nowadays when you only [...]

A significant fraction of the summer is gone, and as a Stanford student, you have no doubt used this time to make gains on your path to success and fortune. Whether you have spent the summer selflessly reaching out to impoverished Micronesians, networking at a lucrative D.C. internship or establishing a recommendation-generating relationship with an [...]

A significant fraction of the summer is gone, and as a Stanford student, you have no doubt used this time to make gains on your path to success and fortune. Whether you have spent the summer selflessly reaching out to impoverished Micronesians, networking at a lucrative D.C. internship or establishing a recommendation-generating relationship with an [...]

Go see “Me and You and Everyone We Know.” It is an astoundingly intelligent and moving film (“back and forth” aside), and has won numerous first-rate awards (including some at Cannes and Sundance). Not convinced yet? Fine. Read on.
While it is at times an incredibly funny film, it’s hardly a comedy. The movie follows the [...]

Weekly columnist Andrea Runyan is right; most of us underestimate our ability to effect change in the world. Last week she endorsed a cynical attitude toward work and careers that further underestimates us.
First, she claimed the sciences and professional fields lend themselves to “the dark side.” Second, she declared that competitive careers such as medicine, [...]

There’s a difference between being untalented at something and being chronologically behind. If you’re worse than your peers at something, you might not have less of a capability for it — you might have had a late start. No matter what your subject or specialty, there are probably people your age at Stanford who have [...]

God hates me, which is pretty unreasonable of him or her, since (a) other than the odd coveting of my neighbor’s ass, I’m really not much of a sinner (despite my best efforts) and (b) I don’t even believe in him / her / it / whatever. And frankly, when an omnipotent being whose existence [...]

When second-seeded Venus Williams dispatched lucky loser, Sania Mirza, 6-3, 6-2, in front of a sold-out crowd at Taube Family Tennis Stadium on Wednesday, her carefully chosen words going into the match proved prophetic.
“I haven’t had a lot of time to prepare, I just want to go [...]

To most people, walking seems like the most natural and simple act possible. And yet, for a group of six Stanford graduate students in mechanical engineering, the basic act of putting one foot in front of the other became a mystery that consumed their energy for months. The fruit of their labors — a vibrating [...]