<p>justadream92, which dorms have sinks and walk in closets??</p>
<p>I live in Ujamaa, the Black theme house AKA the most hype and tight knit dorm on campus (you should prioritize Uj on your dorm ranking list btw; it’s amazing) and I would imagine that other dorms in Lag Court would have them also. But to be fair, not all of the rooms in Uj have walk-in closets.</p>
<p>Good to know! I really like the Lagunita Court area. </p>
<p>How large are the dorm rooms typically? I’ve stayed in a single in Yost before and it was teensy.</p>
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<p>LOL I wish I could. I went through all my settings but couldn’t find anything that could allow me to change it. Oh well. 
Stanford>Princeton and everyone knows that.</p>
<p>I am fine with a double, although I feel a single would’ve been a welcome change (had doubles all throughout boarding school). A triple might be a bit excessive. Any advice on how I can avoid it?</p>
<p>Thanks! :)</p>
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<p>The doubles I’ve been in at Cedro and Arroyo were very comfortable with respect to size and all of the rooms I’ve been in at Ujamaa were spacious enough to accommodate singles, doubles and triples. Recently, Stanford had a big renovation phase where they knocked down walls at a lot of places to make the rooms more hospitable (I have the middle bed in my triple and a fragment of the old wall is on the side of my bed and prevents me from falling on the floor when I sleep). So in general, the rooms are spacious enough, in my opinion. </p>
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<p>I personally don’t know any freshman with a single so chances are, it’s not happening. My heart dropped on move-in day when I found out I was in a triple. But when I saw how spacious it was and how compatible I was with my roommates, now I wouldn’t trade it for the world. That being said, it isn’t feasible to try and avoid triples when your dorm has both doubles and triples as options for freshmen because you, as the student, do not get to choose what you want. It’s unfortunate, but true. My advice would to be to rank dorms that don’t have triple options higher on your housing list. But even then, you still may not get what you want because a ton of people I know, including myself, did not get our preferential dorms … I ranked all-frosh first and ended up getting my current 4-class dorm. There are a lot of people here that also ranked all-frosh first and then ranked 4-class dorms way towards the bottom of their lists and ended up in a 4-class anyway. So it’s pretty much a hit and miss. </p>
<p>But you’ll most likely end up in a double.</p>
<p>in my dorm there is one single on another floor (singles in most frosh dorms belong to staff)</p>
<p>from what i’ve heard (not sure if it’s true), he got his doctor to write some BS note. really, he just uses his room for beer pong and hookups</p>
<p>^if true that’s like parking in a handicap space. You can do it and get away with it, but it’s disgusting.</p>
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<p>that’s soo badass!</p>
<p>Hmm another question to Stanford students if it isn’t too much trouble: How dominant is the presence of Stanford’s publications on campus? And which publications seem to garner greatest readership?</p>
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<p>They’re very active and noticeable on campus and they’re great organizations to be a part of and contribute to. </p>
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<p>I would say The Stanford Daily, only because there’s a newspaper stand in Lakeside Dining and every morning before I head to class the stack is full. When I return back for lunch, they’re hard to find. They also have a number of satirical and global publications that are often distributed randomly by members of the organizations. </p>
<p>If you’re interested in journalism at all, Stanford’s a great place to get your feet wet!</p>
<p>How would you say the beds feel at Stanford? Are they typical “camp beds” - flimsy as cardboard or hard as a rock? Or do they tend to be pretty comfortable?</p>
<p>Since it’s Winter season now, do most dorms stay warm?</p>
<p>Random question: Do you know of people who are working together on projects? The next Google/Yahoo/etc - something to that effect? Maybe even not as intense as that.</p>
<p>Someone asked about FroSoCo earlier. I live in frosoco, so just thought I’d answer.</p>
<p>FroSoCo is freshman-sophomore college, i.e. we have freshmen and sophomores living together in the same dorm. It’s a bit of an atypical freshman experience, so I’ll try to explain some aspects of it:</p>
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<li><p>Location: It’s on the far west side of campus, pretty far away from where most of the other freshmen live. however, it’s close to the SEQ (science and engineering quad) and is no farther to the main quad than the dorms on the far east side of campus. The dorm is prettier than most other freshman dorms, but it’s a bit annoying to live so far away from everyone else. </p></li>
<li><p>Food: Our dining hall is Ricker, i.e. the BEST dining hall on campus. It’s small, homey, and the dining hall staff is really nice. We have by far the best food and atmosphere of any dining hall. </p></li>
<li><p>Rooms: All the freshmen in all-frosh dorms get one-room doubles that are small, but livable. The freshmen in Roble get three-room quads, and the freshmen in Lag get triples. We get the BEST rooms of any freshmen: either a HUGE one-room double or a two-room double. I have a two-room double and it’s legit. The one-room doubles are about the size of the triples in Lag. </p></li>
<li><p>Social life: It’s got a bad reputation for being antisocial and having a lot of weird people, which is totally not true. All of my best friends at Stanford live in FroSoCo with me, and yes, we do go out to party and yes, some of us do drink. it’s just less hard-core than most of the other freshmen dorms. It’s a really great community (I got out once or twice a week). If you’re someone who likes to party occasionally or if you don’t want to party at all, frosoco could be a good fit.
It’s about 100 freshmen and about 60 sophomores. One thing I like a lot is that I’m good friends with sophomores–which might not happen if you live in an all-frosh dorm. </p></li>
<li><p>Extra programming: Frosoco is cool in that it has extra dorm programming. we have more resident tutors than other dorms. we have these things called “dean’s dinners” where they bring cool faculty members to talk to us and then we go out to dinner at a fancy restaurant in palo alto. It was kind of awesome. We have sofo’s, which are little mini-classes that sophomores teach in winter and spring. and i think we have more dorm activities than other dorms.</p></li>
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<p>Honestly, the beds are not very comfortable. Almost everyone I know has a mattress pad. They’re very good investments to consider prior to move-in day. I would imagine that most dorm beds, in general, are not very comfy.</p>
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<p>lol well, I know a lot of people who started their own companies in high school and are currently working on making them bigger. But there are definitely a lot of entrepreneurs and such that are stirring up some juicy things on campus and I wouldn’t be surprised if the next mega-technological innovation will come out of the current student population.</p>
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<p>I go to Ricker about twice a week and the food is definitely not orgasmic or superior relative to the rest of the dining halls on campus. The only things special about Ricker is the ambience and dining accommodations, such as the furniture and the upstairs level. The staff is generally nice, too. But I’m biased for Lakeside Dining in Lagunita Court because I personally think the food is better and we have weekend brunch and Late Night! It’s all opinion though.</p>
<p>Random, but as I walked through the halls of FroSoCo while visiting a friend, I saw chem and calculus problem sets on the walls and nerd jokes made out of calculations on white boards and I was horrified. I mean, if you’re into that kind of stuff, then definitely apply. FroSoCo definitely does have great events that engage faculty members. But speaking from personal experience while living in Ujamaa, we have a lot of educational and social events as well that attract a lot of people from around campus.</p>
<p>I think the moral of the story here is that everyone has different ideals for their dorm. I mean, I am biased toward my own dorm, but it’s easy to see that every dorm style or program has pros and cons. I really don’t think Ricker is anything special - it’s really tiny, which means there are only a couple of choices (and you’ll get tired of the Grill really quickly). The actual dining area is really pleasant, though. Honestly, with the exception of Stern, none of the dining halls are awful… a lot of people really like FloMo, as do I, and I also don’t mind Wilbur. The smaller dining halls are just too limited for me, while I can avoid them.</p>
<p>The beds are fine. I just have a mattress cover on mine and I think it’s fine; then again my bed at home is older than I am and broken. My roommate has a memory foam mattress pad and it seems like it’s well worth the investment. My room doesn’t seem to have any kind of control for the heat. It’s about a thousand degrees in my room. They turned the heat on early and they turn it up. NorCalifornians seem to love the heat. Since I can’t turn it off, I usually leave the windows open. It didn’t really get hot in September - we had a couple of days in the 90s but it wasn’t unbearable (and Green is air conditioned). It’ll probably be warmer in June.</p>
<p>For the record, I think “nerdy things” like calculus jokes are awesome! I mean, I didn’t exactly come here to avoid schoolwork.</p>
<p>Just my two cents:</p>
<p>One thing I always loved about Ricker dining is that although the options may not have been extensive, the quality of the food was really good imo. Contrast that with somewhere like Wilbur which has a bunch of options but all pretty mediocre in my opinion. Plus they have really good desserts. And of course the atmosphere and layout everyone else mentioned. </p>
<p>My mattresses have been very pleasant without a mattress pad. Then again I don’t like soft mattresses that give a lot. </p>
<p>dorm rooms/houses have heat, but generally not AC. So fans are nice at the beginning and end of the year, and opening the windows generally is a good way to lower temps at other times. Depending on how you like to roll, for a lot of the year you can easily get your room anywhere from low 60s to low 80s I’d say. If you room’s pressure situation works out, you can probably get it lower.</p>
<p>@curiosity33 and anyone else who’s not necessarily a huge partier -
Don’t put down 4 class JUST because you want a quieter atmosphere. As justadream92 said, people do drink in 4 class dorms - really, people are going to be drinking everywhere. I’m biased because I live in a freshman dorm but I think that the all frosh dorms are a great way to meet a bunch of fellow freshmen and make friends. Because everyone is new and looking to find their place at Stanford, there’s an energy present that 4 class dorms don’t really have. Also, don’t feel that you have to be a huge drinker/partier to fit in at a freshman dorm. There are going to be people who go out Thursday-Saturday but that doesn’t mean that a) everyone does and b) you have to. Amongst the 85 other freshman in your dorm, there are definitely going to be some non/light drinkers/partiers. Personally, I’m not a huge partier and I fit in fine and love my dorm. </p>
<p>food:
Each dining hall will have vegetarian and vegan food, and they do a good job with identifying which foods are vegan/vegetarian. I’m vegetarian and I get along okay
well, as okay as I can be considering I live in Stern. If you’re vegan you’ll be fine too. Personally, I think FloMo and to a lesser extent Wilbur have really good veg options - Lag and Ricker are good too but I don’t make it out there as often. </p>
<p>publications:
In addition to the Daily, there’s also the Stanford Review (more conservative), Flipside (humorous/satirical), Fiat Lux
don’t really know anything about them though. </p>
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<p>A lot of people have mattress pads and swear by them. Personally I don’t have one and am very comfortable. It all depends on your taste, really. </p>
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<p>Haha, most dorms are definitely on the warmer side. Don’t worry about the temperature!</p>
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<p>lol well I’m certainly opposed to the notion of avoiding schoolwork, but are you telling me that putting problem sets in the hallway of a living space and making them into numerical jokes isn’t a little far fetch? It sends the message of “Hi, multivariable calculus is my first language!” Not very inviting, if you ask me. Schoolwork belongs on paper; not so much on a public portrait, especially anything quantitative 0.o</p>
<p>I think it’s cute. Well anyways, I’m not sure what you’d think of EastFlo - we have compsci jokes AND jokes about Plato… not to mention entire boards devoted to SLE jokes. It’s inviting to me - but to each their own.</p>
<p>If anyone knows, how is the equestrian team? Is it difficult to make the team? Thanks!</p>
<p>I think I can handle the more fuzzy displays :)</p>