<p>I don’t think it matters THAT much what you did in the summer as long as you did SOMETHING. I went to two summer programs (1 each year) and just listed those.</p>
<p>I did research for 6-8 weeks both summers, so I gave one sentence about each project I did.</p>
<p>I would post a chance thread. This thread is for whining! </p>
<p>That said, everyone has a shot.</p>
<p>Okay, I’m curious: Is there anybody else out here on this forum wanting to major in political science? On CC, I feel way outnumbered by aspiring scientist. xD</p>
<p>Nah Holocene i think last minute chancing qualifies as whining 
Everybody hates seeing a new chance thread especially two days before …</p>
<p>And nooo i hate politics. Future engineers all the way haha</p>
<p>on cc i feel way out numbered by the amount of comp sci and engineers! there are so many!!! and all these kids with perfect test scores…mine are so bad compared to yalls.</p>
<p>i think i had a heart attack today. can one of you kids that wants to be a doctor tell me what i should do?..or should i go to a real doctor?</p>
<p>“Everyone has a shot.”</p>
<p>Good enough for me ^_^</p>
<p>Ok, here’s a question. How many of you all have been to the campus & surrounding area who are from pretty far away (none of we Bay babies!) What did you think of it? How’s the “vibe” for you foreigners haha - is it unique, different from where you live? What’s your favorite part of the campus & area?</p>
<p>True, I’d just hate to see our thread turn into a mega chance me thread. I like relieving anxiety with y’all, and once I know you’re stats I’ll get all competitive and size you up :(</p>
<p>Yeah, I dislike politics. I keep up with them and have opinions and stuff, but I couldn’t see myself ever studying them forrealzz other than in the context of anthropology.</p>
<p>Oh wow @Adodie, I am!! PolSci and concentrating in International Relations, so maybe major IR minor Political Science and a language. How cool!! Who knows, maybe we’ll end up in the same classes! :D</p>
<p>I’ve lived in the Bay Area for two years now, and Stanford is very different from the area where I live.</p>
<p>@pitabread: you should probably go see a real doctor lol</p>
<p>@harborceal: I’m about 2 states away if you count that as “foreign”, but i absolutely LOVED the campus. i was pretty “meh” about stanford before visiting, but after my visit completely changed my mind.</p>
<p>the stanford “vibe” is way different from the north carolina “vibe”! stanford>nc</p>
<p>thanks ccuser95!</p>
<p>i was at stanford for three weeks and could not get used to being back here cause stanford was so much better than here</p>
<p>Thank goodness @20tigger17, I was beginning to think I was the only one xD. Yeah, it’s kind of a passion of mine, but, with all of the pointless bickering and gridlock, I can definitely understand those of you who don’t care for it.</p>
<p>@harorceal, I’m from the great Pacific Northwest and have visited Stanford twice. The vibe felt really cool. I can’t really even describe it – it wasn’t formal at all, but, at the same time, you could feel that everybody there really cared about at least one or two things.</p>
<p>Yeah, Stanford was awesome for me! I just felt so comfortable there and like everyone was similar to me in their laid-back yet ambitious manner. You know? It’s hard to describe except as “wonderful” and “will fit like a glove.”</p>
<p>I’m from the East Coast and honestly the area around Stanford is as different from my home area as Scandinavia is from like southern italy. I don’t know why those examples came to my mind because I don’t think one is better than the other (though norcal>east coast) but even the …coloring of everything is different in california. There’s this really nice sense of open space and freedom, and also nature that exists not because it’s waiting to be civilized but because that’s its place and humans respect it. you don’t see that in the sprawls of the east coast.</p>
<p>I guess that’s more about landscape than campus/people haha but I feel like i’ve talked about that already</p>
<p>I visited in February from New York and it felt really serene 
But to be fair, I did do the morning program so a lot of people probably weren’t up yet. Stanford’s campus was just beautiful. I think the only complaint I had was that it’s in a suburban setting, and I’m really a city girl through and through–but I have the rest of my life to live in cities ;)</p>
<p>Adodie, I’m actually seriously considering Political Science now because I realized how invested I was in this past election, issue- and candidate-wise. I’m still planning on a Human Bio at this point, but I think I might want to explore healthy policy a bit more.</p>
<p>I’m from Maryland, actually, and the Stanford area is just another world. Wayyyy less trees, far more…sepia toned. Maryland (at least where I live) is more forests and farms. It’s beautiful and historic in that Eastern way, but the Stanford area is just…different. It really is more western with a kind of…“wind of freedom” atmosphere compared to the rustic aura of the East coast.</p>
<p>Wow, it’s so interesting to hear a different perspective on an area that’s so familiar to me. Really cool guys, I’d love to hear more.</p>
<p>it also almost never rains there and there is no humidity so it is literally the perfect weather</p>