<p>119a There are a decent proportion of Sleople who’ve considered engineering.(One of those took Japanese all year, each time in addition to at least one another class.) With regard to whether SLE is “ideal,” there appears to be a perception that you need to plan ahead to get the prereqs underway. Conspicuously, SLE BioE prospects seem to have a good idea about when they’re going to do those prereqs. All the better for them. But like I said, its schedule is more favorable than IHUM/PWR because it tends not to conflict with most classes. Overall it’s 3 units more than IHUM/PWR, which may not matter if 16/17 is the average frosh courseload. Don’t decide on SLE by virtue of your prospective major. If you like to read and argue, do it.</p>
<p>119b I know a more than one CS prospect in SLE.</p>
<p>118a I’m not particularly fond of quantitative analysis. Those who are aren’t anomalies.</p>
<p>118b Kimball, the Arts-and-Performing-Arts - themed dorm. I’m going to miss being right next to everything.</p>
<p>^^I guess I got a quanty sense from your math and chem choices to round out SLE. (We’re kind of Renaissance Quants in our family–we enjoy developing our literacy and numeracy in roughly equal measure, with lots of arts in the mix as well.)</p>
<p>Sleople: that’s a keeper and I’m stealing it!</p>
<p>Thanks again for your time and insights. Kimball looks like a cool place to live.</p>
<p>I want to do SLE, and heard that I need to write a supplemental essay about why I’m interested. Do I submit this essay along with the housing application? I can’t find a space for it on the app when I log on, even though I’ve indicated SLE as my top “IHUM” and housing choices. Thanks!</p>
<p>@Caligari- Wow, they’ve added a new supplementary essay portion for SLE? They didn’t have that before. It was my understanding that it was only FroSoCo that required an essay…</p>
<p>Also, any input on which of these IHUMs are good or bad?</p>
<p>The Art of Living, Beyond Survival, Humans and Machines, Journeys, The Poet Re-making the World, Sustainability and Collapse, Technological Visions of Utopia, Word and Image
(not sure if all these were there in the past…)</p>
<p>Try courserank.stanford.edu and ratemyprofessor.com to get reviews on professors and IHUM courses (and ask here if you’d like, just giving you more options). From what I can tell, Sustainability and Collapse and Word and Image are completely new.</p>
<p>Tech visions of Utopia is awesome! Eric Roberts is in the CS department but is absolutely amazing. Plus, you get to read a lot of sci-fi for IHUM ^_^</p>
<p>See my comment on the housing thread about single sex vs coed floors…</p>
<p>@college.curious–I live in a coed all frosh floor right now and LOVE IT… I’m not entirely sure bc my dorm is all coed (those that do have single sex floors also have a coed floor… no dorm is entirely single sex) but I can say that it is incredibly social and a lot of fun. As long as you’re cool with people of the opposite gender walking around in a towel, I’d say go coed. Note that the bathrooms are still separated by gender.</p>
<p>As far as IHUMs, The Poet Re-making the World, Sustainability and Collapse, and Word and Image are new, and Technological Visions of Utopia is an old one they’re bringing back (I’ve heard its really good). I took Humans and Machines and HATED IT. It’s not that much work at all (2 papers and a final project, no test. Plus most of the ‘readings’ are movies like Pinocchio and my fair lady) but soooooooo boring. I wanted to stab myself. Basically just look at the list of readings and choose what sounds the most bearable to talk about for ten weeks.</p>
<p>Which ones are the most popular?
Also, what is grade distribution like? What are TF’s? Which courses require more work? Which ones would you say are most rewarding? </p>
<p>I love the Humans & Machines description, but have heard nothing but negative reviews about it! </p>
<p>Also, I’m thinking about majoring in religious studies, so would it make sense for me to choose Journeys? I don’t want to concentrate it so that my IHUM course is the same as a class I would choose for my major, too. Thoughts? Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>hello, my question is about chem 31x versus 31a/b. </p>
<p>i took AP Chem my sophomore year and did relatively well in the class because our teacher curved/re-scaled the tests (made the highest grade 100%).</p>
<p>is there a difference between taking chem 31x and chem 31a/31b for med school…as in, do med schools find it more impressive that i took 31x rather than 31a/b? </p>
<p>i really don’t care about social life and how hard classes would deprive myself of free time, i’m basically an introverted nerd haha! i’m willing to do everything for my future. i’m a very hard worker and study a lot with great time management. if it’s more beneficial to take 31x, i will study chem over the summer to do well on the placement test. and if 31x is the best way to go, i would study endlessly during the year to ensure that i understand everything thoroughly. </p>
<p>all advice is welcome, thank you so much in advance for your kind words :)</p>
<p>ocgirl92–It’s hard to say which ones are the most popular… very few people say they like their IHUM. The grade distribution is very narrow–everyone gets a B (in fact it is known as B-hum). People who do all the reading (there’s a lot) get a B+ and people who do no reading and dont go to lecture (me) get a B-. TF’s are Teaching Fellows–very similar to a TA for any other class except that they already have their PhD. They run the discussion sections. Most work vs. rewarding? Again, hard to say. The two that I’ve had (Humans & Machines and Performing Religion) weren’t very much work but they were also really boring. Then again I’m a techie so I don’t like the humanities much in general.</p>
<p>I would say that you’re expecting too much out of IHUM… don’t expect to learn much. Basically just go with whatever readings (look at these much closer than the course description) seem the most interesting/engaging/bearable.</p>
<p>So I took 31X and I didn’t think it was that bad (compared to the people taking A at the time, it actually seemed like I was doing less work). I think the difference is that A/B assumes little to no chem experience while X is for people who have taken/passed the AP. Depending on what you got on the AP (if you got a 5) you can go straight into 33, which is kind of a big leap but from what I hear very doable. </p>
<p>I warn against accepting too quickly that you will stay in your room all day to study. Yes, there are people that do that, but Stanford is about much more than classes. You will be living with some of the most amazing people in the world, both intellectually and otherwise, and you would be missing out on a significant part of the Stanford experience if you gave up on that. Also, Stanford knows how to have fun. We still party (parents that are reading this–don’t worry, we’re not THAT bad) we still relax in the California sunshine, and we still have fun. Don’t commit yourself to 20 units every quarter or label yourself now as an introvert. </p>
<p>colingray–depends on the class/prof… some let you bring notes in addition/instead. Also I’ve heard of a few IHUMs that have oral finals</p>
One person’s answer won’t do that question justice. Sufficiently many answers will overtake this eclectic thread. I’ll entertain you, but please make another thread – strong but imperfect transcript, no sports, strong choir commitment, fickle community service, competitive mathletics, reputation for excess effort (ergo good recommendations), no student government. </p>
One person’s answer won’t do that question justice. Sufficiently many answers will overtake this eclectic thread. I’ll entertain you, but please make another thread – strong but imperfect transcript, no sports, strong choir commitment, fickle community service, competitive mathletics, reputation for excess effort (ergo good recommendations), no student government. </p>