<p>In response to an earlier thread. Ask away.</p>
<p>What do you know about the CS department? Do you know anybody majoring in Computer Science? Do CS majors typically have a minor also (if so which)?</p>
<p>Do you know if there are many people on track for the 5 yr undergrad/graduate CS degree combo?</p>
<p>Well, I'm only a freshman, but I do know that Stanford has one of the top CS programs in the world. I know a few people majoring in CS, but nothing specific. I'm sure it's possible to minor in pretty much anything, although CS is a demanding major. Most freshmen don't have a very solid idea of what they want to do yet - I think it's more important freshman year to try and decide whether you're techie or a fuzzy, and getting on that track (they say you can change any time, but that's BS - although moving from techie to fuzzy is much easier than vice versa).</p>
<p>How good is the Sociology Dept. as well as Math 19 and 20?</p>
<p>Hmm, I can't really tell you much about specific classes - I can only really talk about the ones I've actually taken myself, or heard a lot about. I'm sure the more hardcore CCers would know more about the departments than I would. Ask me questions about campus culture, etc.</p>
<p>It is "natural" for CS majors to minor in math (i.e. you'd need only a couple of more classes of math then you'd be taking anyway for CS to complete a math minor)</p>
<p>A math minor would be a good complement to CS. Depends on what you're interested in/what you think you want to do with it. I'd imagine a math minor wouldn't be too hard, because CS has a decent math requirement:
<a href="http://cs.stanford.edu/degrees/undergrad/Thinking.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://cs.stanford.edu/degrees/undergrad/Thinking.shtml</a></p>
<p>how's FroSoCo?
i already read all the other threads about it, but i was wondering about your opinion.
Does it really have that "anti-social" image?
I know it's really far from most of the other dorms, but do you think the FroSoCo-ers enjoy the experience?
Is it really hard to get in there?</p>
<p>Another question..
Which dorms do you think are best and worst in each aspect?(partying, food, life, etc.)</p>
<p>Just one more :)
what do you think of bike riding on the stanford campus? do you love it? hate it? </p>
<p>thx a lot:)</p>
<p>This is a major specific question so I'm not really sure if anyone will have an answer: if I major in Public Policy, how difficult would it to be to also double major in economics? I assume it wouldn't be too difficult because as a public policy major I would already be taking a lot of economics classes. Am I right?</p>
<p>Hmm, I don't know much about FroSoCo, mainly because I only know one person from it. I think that's slightly indicative of how it works here. My friend, however, seemed to like it. It doesn't seem anti-social at all, it's just easier to make friends in your general vincinity.</p>
<p>Naturally, you kind of stick with people in your own dorm, although I have a decent number of friends from other dorms. Like, for example, I met some friends during admit weekend who now live in branner, and I regularly visit them. However, the only people I know from say Roble are from my classes. Roble kind of seems like the other side of the universe to me, and I've only been there like once, although in reality it's not that far. So, essentially, it's natural for you to just befriend the people from your dorm, and you won't make too many friends from other dorms except through outside organizations unless you make an effort to. I think it's a good system, though, because Stanford is big enough as it is. There'd be too many people to meet.</p>
<p>I like biking. It takes too long to walk (maybe about 15 minutes from dorm to classes), although some people prefer it - although bikers have right of way, and are generally crazy. The campus is absolutely gorgeous, and the weather's usually very nice. </p>
<p>I live in wilbur, which is divided into several different buildings. I live in J-ro (all freshman dorm). Here (and I think pretty much in all Wilbur dorms) it's like a big happy family. They make a big effort to instill a sense of community, and it works - like, I know everyone's name, sit with whoever's from my dorm at the dining hall, etc. I also talk about music a lot and swap CD's with my RF (the stanford prof who lives next to J-ro and runs it), who shares a lot of the same music tastes as I do.</p>
<p>By the way, always go for freshman dorms. It's a much better experience, in my opinion.</p>
<p>Here are my (sometimes first) impressions on the different dorms:
- All-frosh wilbur dorms: really good sense of community and fun. The wilbur food is good, although people generally like to complain about it because it gets repetitive.
- Stern: not exactly pretty, and the food is worse than wilbur's. It's not a bad place, though, and the people seem nice.
- Branner: really big freshman dorm. People there seem a slightly more insecure and more eager to seem "cool" (a natural freshman experience), probably because they're surrounded by more people that they don't know. Interesting effect. The rooms are really nice, though, newly renovated.
- SLE dorms (I visited alondra): They seemed to have a slightly more intellectual, but then again slightly more pretentious atmosphere than wilbur dorms. In wilbur, people are totally up for an intellectual discussion, but are sometimes overly careful not to be pretentious. In SLE they had like poetry written on the whiteboards, and seemed more artsy. However, I only visited alondra once, and I could be completely off the mark.</p>
<p>I'm not sure, n1bigdude. Check the department website, they usually have major requirements. Try searching google for stanford economics and stanford public policy.</p>
<p>A few things about double majors...</p>
<p>1) Some classes can't count towards two majors. So even if you take a bunch of classes in some department, that doesn't mean those classes can count towards a second major. The major requirements should specify that. </p>
<p>2) Remember that you probably don't want to only take GERs and courses for two majors. If the two majors cover everything you are interested in than that's great, go for it. But most likely you'll also want to take intro seminars and other classes that seem fun/interesting. </p>
<p>3) You don't have to double major if you are interested in two different disciplines. If they are very related, you could always design your own major. Otherwise you can just take a lot of classes in the other department. I love physics but I also love cognitive science/neuroscience/etc. I plan on majoring on physics and just taking tons of CS classes in AI, psych classes in memory and learning, maybe some neuroscience classes, etc. Anyone who bothers looking at my transcript (like grad schools) will see that I took a lot of classes related to my secondary interest. I like the freedom that gives me. It's possible that in the end I'd even do some sort of cognitive psychology/neuroscience graduate program. Who knows. The point is that you don't have to major in every field that interests you.</p>
<p>Are there a lot of ambitions students who want to start something? Like I plan to go into computer science... so are there people in business that want to form together and start the next major company? </p>
<p>Or, even invent the next new thing to change the world?</p>
<p>It's very important than just saying "I went to stanford" and not doing much</p>
<p>Stanford has THE best computer science department. there isn't an equivalent</p>
<p>What do Stanford students usually do for fun? Do they go to the beach or attend frat parties or go to concerts or discuss politics or... what? No doubt there are some students from each category, but I'm just wondering in general what is your impression.</p>
<p>How is the party scene in Stanford?</p>
<p>How is the mechanical engineering, chemical engineering department?</p>
<p>how has the experience generally been for you as a whole?</p>
<p>Do you know anything about the biology department? If so, is there any way to do a biophysics major there?</p>
<p>I'll try to answer some of the questions, if you don't mind, UncleFeezus.</p>
<p>ME and ChemE are excellent, difficult programs. Prepare to work and receive the highest-class education in either of those fields. </p>
<p>Stanford bio is #1 nationwide. The bio core (or, alternately, the HumBio core) is known to be among the most competitive and difficult courses at Stanford. </p>
<p>Biophysics is a Ph.D. program but not a B.S. program. <a href="http://med.stanford.edu/biophysics/about.html%5B/url%5D">http://med.stanford.edu/biophysics/about.html</a> </p>
<p>At least, that is what it seems like. </p>
<p>To be honest, people rarely discuss politics or go to the beach at Stanford. During the weekend a lot of people will go partying on the row, although a lot will have smaller gatherings with alcohol in their dorms and so on. </p>
<p>Stanford students are very ambitious, although a lot seem to have a "social justice" interest. Academia seems to take a backseat to financial and activist interests, it seems like. </p>
<p>The party scene is there if you want it. Some of them are pretty insane. </p>
<p>I hope I was able to answer your questions.</p>
<p>How is the dating/getting laid scene ? (not that they're the same)</p>