<p>Thanks for the addition, lki.</p>
<p>By the way, you're in SLE, you're in Band... Are you one of the SLE bonz?</p>
<p>How hard is it to double major in college? I want to take it easy my first quarter, but can I afford that if I plan to double major in International Relations and Biology?</p>
<p>yeah, i have the same question as davidsango, except im thinking about double majoring in econ and EE. how does that work out?</p>
<p>Econ AND EE? Wow, that's going to be A LOT of work.</p>
<p>well as of right now im pretty set on econ (planning to go the finance/banking route) but that seems to be the goal of every econ student at every major university. econ being a popular major, im afraid competition will be so stiff in the workplace that im gonna be left behind in the jobhunt...
i dunno, i just feel like i need engineering to fall back on
then again, i still dont understand enough about the requirements for each major, so i might change my mind in the end...</p>
<p>um...any current students on the staff of the Stanford Daily? How much time does it take on a daily basis? Would it be suicide for a premed major to try to join the staff? <em>biting nails</em>
thanks, guys.</p>
<p>Sly Si,
No, the SLE bonz can actually play. I'm a SLE tenr (go tenrz!). Interestingly enough, we started off with three SLE tenrz this year, but then one joined a capella and the other one just sucks</p>
<p>In response to Purplerain666,
I don't personally write/work for the Daily, but I know people who do. There's <i>no</i> reason you couldn't. Don't misunderstand the nature of the college workload - it's hard, but definitely not impossible - and it is normal to have plenty of time for activities and fun.
And it's not like premeds that big a deal - a math course, some physics, some chem, some bio and baddabing, baddabum, get a philosophy degree and ship off to medschool.</p>
<p>are there lots of politically active liberals around? any prominent groups on campus that have rallies and sit-downs or anything? any politically famous professors?
also, is it really true that stanford's overall atmosphere is lacking in deep intellectual debate - read that somewhere in this forum. i don't really see how that's possible since we're the best people on earth in the best place on earth, but maybe...i dunno.
thankx</p>
<p>Atticus, if it's true, then you and I will have enough intense political debates to cover for all of the other lazy Trees.</p>
<p>Question for the current students - is the work-study program organized well? What kind of jobs are there, and how are they?</p>
<p>What happens if you fall ill? Is there a hospital or something?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>The student health insurance fully covers any expenses at the Stanford Hospital, one of the best anywhere. I had a $20,000 bill there once for which I only paid $10.</p>
<p>Awesome! I just got out of bed after 7 days with a 104 fever...so had to ask :)</p>
<p>i was wondering if some of the stanford students could post a brief summary of their daily schedules
i saw this on the college life forum a while ago, and i thot it'd be interesting to see it from a stanford perspective</p>
<p>legal Disclaimer: the following post is for entertainment purposes. the author does not claim it represents his actual schedule</p>
<p>This is a great procrastination break from the article i'm writing:
So here's my schedule this week
Monday:
9am: sleep through Pilates
10: Wake up, shower, eat, finish reading for afternoon class
11: Math lecture
11:34 fall asleep in lecture
11:37 wake up, feeling refreshed
12:00 Lunch
13:15 Literature seminar
14:45 get out of seminar, check mail, go home and procrastinate, do work
15:30 call person at Wash U to interview them
17:00-19:00 Dinner, reading, procrastination
19:00 Hofstadter gives presidential lecture
21:00 come home and do work
2:00am: finish reading, go to bed</p>
<p>Tuesday
8am: get up, eat, shower
845: interview person for article i'm writing
10am: skip math section to do reading for 11am philosophy seminar
11am-1230 philosophy class
1245-1315: lunch
1315-1515: SLE reading
1515-1630: SLE lecture
1630-1730: lecture by the Hungarian ambassador
1800: SLE lecture cancelled for the evening yay!
1800-2100 reading
2100 Band sectional
2200 get home, play foosball
2300 decide to prank neighboring dorm, remove all furniture from their dining hall
0045 move all furniture back
0200 go to sleep</p>
<p>Wednesday
9am wake up
11am go to math class
noon meeting for stanford review
1:15 hold literature class outside, eat pizza
3:00 get home
3:15 sle lecture, followed by discussion
5-6 dinner
6 sle lecture
7: start working on math homework
10: abandon math homework out of sense of desperation
10: house meeting
11: start writing article
1:30 get coffee
2am actually start writing article
345am take procrastination break to write this</p>
<p>also, life is actually more fun but i've forgotten the fun stuff. not very inspirng, i know.</p>
<p>ill continue the series as it happens</p>
<p>haha, thanks a lot lki
"10: abandon math homework out of sense of desperation"
im scared...</p>
<p>hehe, check out our math homework:</p>
<p>someone, don't try to scare these kids away!</p>
<p>i dont even understand the english behind the math, let alone the math itself</p>
<p>Yeah, that math problem set is definitely not normal. That's from the 50H series (the H stands for either "honors" or "hardcore"), which you only take if you really really love math. As a side note, if it makes you feel any better, it actually wasn't nearly as hard as it looks once you get over the initial reaction to it.</p>
<p>Following lki's lead, I'll put up my usual schedule for this quarter:</p>
<p>Monday/Wednesday
Morning: Sleep in, relax, and/or try to get work done
1:15: IHUM lecture
2:15: Math lecture
3:15: Chill out, go back to my room, try to get work done
4:15: IHUM discussion section
5:45: Dinner, relax
Evening: Band on Monday, Band sectional and dorm meeting on Wednesday, get work done (or in the case of this week, go to the Hofstadter lecture)</p>
<p>Tuesday/Thursday
9:00: Physics lecture
11:00: Back to dorm, have lunch, occasionally get work done
12:15: Seminar on the math behind the Rubik's Cube
1:15: Work on problem sets or go to office hours for math
2:15: Math lecture
3:15: Practice for my drum lesson
4:15: Wind Ensemble rehearsal
6:15: Dinner
Evening: Do problem sets (I have them due Wednesday and Friday)</p>
<p>haha thanks for the explanation sly si, i feel a lot better now</p>