<p>Hi everybody!
When should we submit the student housing application by? Thank you!</p>
<p>We don’t have them yet. They’ll be in the mail on the 17th and we’ll receive them after that.</p>
<p>Will that include information on courses, and GER’s? I only received one regarding the Introductory Seminars… thanks!</p>
<p>I don’t think the new course catalog is released until August (and there is no print copy). You can do plenty of research online, though.</p>
<p>ual.stanford.edu
bulletin.stanford.edu
explorecourses.stanford.edu
courserank.stanford.edu</p>
<p>They have mailed out the Approaching Stanford Handbook, but you can attain an electronic copy here:
[UAL</a> - Welcome to the Freshman Page](<a href=“http://ual.stanford.edu/NBY/Freshman.html]UAL”>http://ual.stanford.edu/NBY/Freshman.html)</p>
<p>The links to the forms are also on the site. (:</p>
<p>Hey just wondering…what do you think are the pros and cons of Coed floors vs. Single-sex floors in an all-frosh dorm?</p>
<p>I haven’t spent much time in any buildings with single-sex floors, but it seems silly. I haven’t experienced any cons from living on a co-ed floor. Perhaps members of conservative gender-sensitive sects might notice a difference when walking to the bathrooms in their towels, but that is not a major point of interaction.</p>
<p>Single sex floors might be conducive to generating a heterosexual “current” of guys moving to the girls’ floor to hang out, or implicit gender norms, when people think certain activities might be more appropriate for certain floors. Those possibilities irk me rather unforgivably. In a certain floor-segregated dorm on campus, the guys sang for the girls on Valentine’s Day (my opinion withheld). I raised that in a discussion with friends and it precipitated plenty angry language.</p>
<p>Although I probably won’t stay in a single sex floor, I disagree with the above poster in that I don’t think they are silly. For me - as a woman - it is quite a luxury to walk down the hall in PJs or run to the bathroom without a bra, given that there are considerably fewer men around. I, for one, have never lived in a house with men and as a result might feel uncomfortable in such a situation. For some, it can be an issue of safety; for me, it’s just an issue of modesty; still others refer to comfort or atmosphere. There are pros and cons, but I don’t think it’s necessary to degrade one option or another. I certainly wouldn’t appreciate a fully co-ed bathroom, but I understand there are people who don’t mind. I think the opposite should stand true.</p>
<p>I lived in a dorm with single sex floors my freshmen year and it wasn’t all that nice since the floors were extremely segregated =( I will say, the number one reason I chose single sex floors is because some of the coed floors also have coed bathrooms which are extremely gross (I had one over admit weekend) and I didn’t want to chance it. Most dorms don’t have this problem though.</p>
<p>What’s wrong with the guys singing to the girls on Valentine’s Day? I was in a dorm that did that and it was very sweet and a nice surprise. They woke the girls up super early and we all went to the lounge. Each girl got a rose. The boys sang NSync and Backstreet Boys in their suits and ties. Then we ate food. It was just a fun, semi romantic thing for Valentine’s Day.</p>
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Unless certain details are being withheld, the bold is actually worse than I thought. It is much nicer where everyone, regardless of social-vaginal qualifications, gets flowers. You can’t pull out that kind of godforsaken sexism and not expect people to be offended. Of course there’s no offense intended, but the cheery RAs are supposed to be sensitive to that kind of thing.</p>
<p>Sorry to switch topics, but does anyone know when we find out where we are living next year? thanks!</p>
<p>incoming freshman find out in august along with the info for our academic director, etc.</p>
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are you kidding around? I’m inclined to say yes, but after having read some radical feminist authors I am not so sure.</p>
<p>@GeekNerd: they are supposed to be sensitive, but they are not supposed to change their social lives to fit every single person’s social views. I am a proponent of social egalitarianism but that is just taking it too far if you expect everyone to follow your beliefs.</p>
<p>im sure some people would be offended if everyone got roses. there is no way to please everyone.</p>