Word: stanfords
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Still, being stranded on "the Farm" may not be as bad as it sounds. Most students would agree that campus life at Stanford is simply amazing. You will have incredible opportunities to meet students, staff and faculty, alike. Dorms regularly schedule dinners with faculty members; dorm patriotism (complete with dorm battle cries and chants) is a way of life...
...love lives, busy Stanford students really don't go on dates in the traditional sense of the word. People tend to hang out in groups, which sometimes leads to romance. Someone once commented that "having a significant other is like a five-until class." Evidently, he didn't get out much...
...when the parties are over, Stanford students settle down to work hard. For those who rely on lulls in the curriculum to handle their work, the quarter system at Stanford will be difficult to handle. It's a running joke that professors originally from Harvard and Yale--both run on semester systems--try to cram everything into the quarter anyway...
This may mean that you'll have less time to participate in extracurricular activities, or it may mean--as is the case with most Stanford first-years--that you'll just have to clean up your act. Unfortunately, one of the diagnostic signs of a Stanford students is that we're overloaded and over-committed...
...widely known that many of Stanford's departments, both in the science and engineering fields as well as the social sciences, are second to none. Faculty, past and present, include Linus Pauling, Richard Zare, Robert Sapolsky, Eric Roberts, Steven Chu, John Taylor, Richard Zimbardo, Condoleeza Rice. If you know anything about their respective fields, you'll know who we're talking about...