<p>How well attended are Cardinal sporting events, particularly men’s football and basketball? </p>
<p>And by ‘attended,’ I mean like how nuts do people go at the games? Let’s say on a scale of 1-10,
(1 being an Ivy league football game, with students reading books in the stands; 10 being Duke basketball’s Cameron Crazies/Notre Dame football’s student section)</p>
<p>branching off woowski777’s question, how much are tickets for students for sports events? do we get a reduced price on them?
also, what required courses/distribution requirements do you have to take/fulfill at Stanford?</p>
<p>soxfan: please say that you are a “White Sox” fan…</p>
<p>Men’s football and basketball are attended rather well, I know it’s not as crazy as Duke fans but way crazier than at the Ivies. I’d say a 7…pushing a 8 or 9 for the more critical games. The band also shows up to all football games and takes cheap shots at the opposing team. Quite fun actually. Everything is free except for Men’s Basketball and you can get men’s basketball tickets for a very reduced price. There’s something called the Sixth Man’s Club where you pay 60 dollars and get all the home tickets free as well as a free shirt and extra perks. A good deal really.</p>
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the worst part about Stanford imo. You have to take a 3 quarter sequence of “classes” called IHUM (yuck) and one class in each of the major disciplines (math, natural science, humanities, social sciences, and engineering) The second part is relatively easy to complete and is quite fair, IHUM is not. You also have to take PWR a two part writing seminar, one part in your freshman year and one part in your sophomore year. PWR and IHUM can be taken out by SLE which is a one year very intensive humanities class that is also a living situation as well (9 units/ quarter, all 3 quarters of your freshman year). Finally you have to take a world language, but many of you will pass out via AP credit. Finally there are some added distribution requirements that are sort of obscure, but not trying in the least.</p>
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<p>The easy part first, the spaced out campus doesn’t really affect social life. You just use a bike so you can get around campus very quickly. Especially with the new housing scheme for frosh next year (with 2/3 of the freshmen living in Wilbur or Stern-two pretty close dorms) this isn’t a problem at all. Most parties are shut down at 1 am, but they can linger to around 130 or 2 if you’re lucky.</p>
<p>Now the hard part, I can’t really say that Stanford>MIT and Penn but I can say besides for academics there are some things that really make Stanford stand out from the two. If you look at the undergraduate admission website you’ll see the slogan “Where pioneering spirit meets 21st century technology.”
[Undergraduate</a> Admission : Stanford University](<a href=“Page Not Found : Stanford University”>http://admission.stanford.edu/)
I think this slogan defines Stanford better than any other school in the nation, or even in the world. This is the spirit of Stanford-entrepreneurship and interdisciplinary studies. I’m not saying you won’t find that at MIT and Penn, but nowhere as much as at Stanford. Also, as I mentioned in my earlier post, we have the Stanford band, which you won’t find anywhere else. I can’t do it justice by just describing it here on a post, you’ll see for yourself at Admit Weekend. Finally, the great diversity found at Stanford can not be discounted. And I’m not just talking cultural or racial. Stanford’s diversity truly is one of its selling points-and it’s loads more diverse than MIT or Penn. You’ll have to see it for yourself though to decide if it’s the right place for you.</p>
<p>I second the Stanford Band! It’s one of the reasons I’ve already accepted my offer of admission. Wikipedia them to find out their best cheap shots!</p>
<p>Wait, there is an engineering requirement?! Ugh! I’m a very humanities-centered person, so can someone alleviate my fears that this course requirement won’t slaughter me?</p>
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<p>More like the humanities classes slaughter the engineering-centered here at Stanford. There are a plethora of easy “engineering” classes to take that satisfy the requirement and won’t make you break a sweat. CS 105 is one of those courses for example.</p>
<p>What is the exercise situation on campus? How nice are the gyms/pools? Are there places nearby to go hiking/jogging?</p>
<p>The gyms, especially at Arrillaga, are state of the art. The pools are world class (one of them Michael Phelps trained in for the Olympics-HOWEVER-the hours really suck/are inconvenient if you are not doing an aquatic sport). There are lots of places for jogging, and you can also go hiking on the dish. Exercise should be no problem sans swimming of course, here at Stanford.</p>
<p>^^I know (from looking over the viewbook) that they have hiking/jogging trails on campus.</p>
<p>lol I’m kinda mad…I was accepted but I’ve never gotten a viewbook from Stanford =[ lol its the only school that never sent me one.</p>
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<p>Not all of our best cheap shots are on Wikipedia; those are just the famous field shows that got us in trouble. We take some good shots from the stands, too… especially if you play volleyball for Texas and have a rather unfortunate name…
By the way, I’ll take any questions about the Band here, in the 2013 forum, or via PM.</p>
<p>Speaking of sports, I think a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10 for craziness is pushing it. Except for games against Cal and USC, football is at most a 5. In bad weather, it’s a 1 (see the WSU game last fall). Men’s basketball can vary from year to year; this year it was pretty bad, but in past years it was probably an 8 or 9. After those two, women’s basketball and volleyball are probably the most important sports. Most of those fans are alums, although they do have a few die-hard student fans (and the Band follows both religiously).</p>
<p>hi, the stanford band is one of the most interesting parts of why i’m thinking about going to stanford! i’ve played music since i was six years old, but i’m not the best at traditional marching instruments. could i still find a niche? i can manage on most percussion but am a quick learner and have played just about every string and keyboard instrument possible.</p>
<p>llpitch – Lol, I’m pretty sure that I requested one from the website, so don’t feel badly. Also, you can download a .pdf version if you’re really curious. I mainly like it because there’s a cute guy longboarding…;).</p>
<p>anissa, you’ll be fine. trust me. =)</p>
<p>How many clubs is a person usually in/what do most people do with their “extra” time?</p>
<p>dpattzlover, I think I know what cute guy you’re talking about. I loved that picture because I think the t-shirt he had on said something along the lines of “A Comparative Guide to World Religions” and I thought that the fact that a student would wear a shirt like that says a lot about the intellectual vigor of Stanford.</p>
<p>But that’s just my opinion… and yes he is cute! ;)</p>
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<p>About 2-3, but it really depends on how involved a person is, what they are majoring in, personality, etc. It’s a *really *open-ended question that probably can’t get any better than that, sorry. That being said, there’s pretty much a club for any legal thing you want to do on campus, and if there isn’t you can make one yourself =)</p>
<p>Lol, YES Olive Tree, that was the one!!! haha, he’s basically the reason I’m getting a longboard…haha, jk, but I actually found out that my friend is getting one, so it works out perfectly! </p>
<p>But, yeah, it was so idealistic. Cruising down the street, cell phone in hand (hope he didn’t hit anyone), wearing a sick “comparative guide” shirt…that was awesome.</p>
<p>What’s the marijuana policy at Stanford? :X</p>