Here are my top five takeaways from my first quarter at Stanford: 1. There are many different flavors of “smart” Coming into Stanford, I knew it was diverse; however, I was still expecting similar “flavors” of smart — the tangy, sweet and extremely nerdy kind — to dominate the school. But the intellectual diversity of…

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As I write this, I am seated at a bench between the back of Main Quad and the front of Green Library. To give myself time to think, I decided to walk to class, and to further clear my mind, I took a seat on this bench in the sunny Stanford weather. I was intending…

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Stanford University is less like a school than you would imagine.

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Can you tell if it's night or day?

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It’s 12:59 p.m., and I’m hopelessly rushing up the stairs of Tresidder. Why? I’m supposed to be viewing my admissions file in exactly one minute. Whoops. Looks like I’ll be late, which is ironic because the last time I tried to view my file, I was too early. You see, over the summer, my overly…

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