Did I come to Oxford out of a desire to reinvent myself? This is a question that kept sliding through my head when I arrived in Britain in time for Freshers’ Week, the Oxford version of NSO. It was as if I’d entered freshman year all over again, marveling at stone buildings, towering spires and a world that seemed fresh and new…
Once upon a time, I was convinced I was bad at small talk. I remember being on the tennis team during freshman and sophomore years of high school, feeling horribly dysfunctional. I couldn’t understand why it was so difficult for me to flow with the other girls’ conversations. It was the most basic thing…
New Student Orientation (NSO) came to a close Sunday evening with the annual Three Books program featuring authors Anne Fadiman, Tracy Kidder and Joyce Carol Oates.
More than 1,500 bright-eyed freshmen arrive on campus today to join their international classmates, who moved in Sunday, for New Student Orientation (NSO).
Sophomore College begins… Andrew Luck fronts New York Times sports section… Harbaugh cancels team meetings for movie night… Dalai Lama tix go on sale… Clifford Nass research on sweet-talking computers… Fall course guide… Stanford news from around the Web for Monday, Aug. 30, 2010.
Chad La Tourette ’12 swims fast … Stanford farms internet startups … Travis Kiefer ’11 runs a lot … Victor Wooten returns … Stanford news from around the web for Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010.