<p>Even if you are not a big partier, I still highly recommend all-frosh dorms. I was certain I wanted to be in a four-class dorm so I could study, etc. and luckily at admit weekend I was told I should ask for an all-frosh dorm. I LOVED my freshman dorm. It was so much fun. I was never pressured to drink, party, etc. It's a unique chance to get to make about 80 or so really awesome friends and just have a very social (like stopping by each others rooms and saying hi social) experience that you really can't find in quite the same way as an upperclass student.</p>
<p>so i am going to be in the science/math/engineering focus, are there any freshman dorms suitable to "techie" types of people or are all dorms a nice mixture of fuzzies and techies</p>
<p>(wow i am already picking up stanford lingo!!)</p>
<p>All dorms for freshman should be a pretty good mix.</p>
<p>I would advocate the 4-class thing; they're still quite social, and it's not as wild as some of the all-frosh dorms. I distinctly remember walking around Branner at around 1 or 2 AM one weekend and there was a group playing tackle football in the hallways. I mean, yes, I was there stealing all the shower curtains with my dormmates, so I wasn't exactly calm goody-two-shoes myself, but still. Also, having upperclassmen around is handy--we're good sources of advice about classes, activities, etc. That, and we're also good sources of cheaper books, since we're usually looking to sell them off.</p>
<p>^That's the impression that I've always been given; hence the hesitation in requesting a frosh dorm. Anyways, I'm pretty sure I'm doing SLE, so I only have 1/3 chance of an all-frosh dorm. :D</p>
<p>Magerie:</p>
<p>Almost all dorms you'd be living in as a frosh are a pretty good mix. SLE will get a disproportionate number of fuzzies, but there are definitely techies who do it. Some upperclass dorms are not quite the same mix--Lantana is humanities focus, so you can guess what type they get; Arroyo is SymSys focus and should in theory get more techies.</p>
<p>frosoco is REALLY far, i went there like once all freshmen year. ricker dining is the best dining hall though i think</p>
<p>I mean to be fair it's not that far away from Lagunita. So it's not ridiculously far...</p>
<p>But really; relative to other dorms it's kinda in the middle of nowhere; that, and biking up and down everyday is no easy feat.</p>
<p>Agreed I wouldn't live there myself but their food is good and it has its own distinct personalty that might appeal to certain people...</p>
<p>How easy is it to get a job around Stanford? Especially if I want to tutor high school students?</p>
<p>Tutoring high school students = easy as pie. As a chem major, I get several offers a quarter. If I had time this quarter I would've taken two of them--one paid $300 for ten hours, and one paid $50 an hour for about 2-3 hours a week for the quarter. You can call anywhere in the range of ~$30-50 an hour depending on the subject. Private tutoring pays well in this area, especially for techie stuff.</p>