<p>Jasonvdm, I’m no expert, but I imagine it would be costly to have it shipped; plus, I am not sure it would be a good idea to keep an expensive bike on campus since it will be outside and subject to theft. If you want to have your bike available for serious bike rides (as opposed to simply commuting around campus), maybe there is a place you could store it. The Stanford bike store might be able to give you some info.</p>
<p>Hey, when do the students get a stanford.edu e-mail address? I would like to print up some social business cards to pass out at the graduation party. But I guess with facebook anymore the kids can stay in touch just fine.</p>
<p>Mamae - The bikes at Stanford are super expensive themselves anyway. And it’s not a super expensive bike. My dad would probably give it away if i left it here anyway.</p>
<p>Do all the freshman dorms have computer labs? I thought somewhere I had heard that they do however, when we toured lagunita and roble I don’t remember anyone pointing that out to us.</p>
<p>^They all do. Roble has one in the basement and lag has multiple ones scattered between the dorms in Lag.</p>
<p>Jasonvdm, I misinterpreted your description of your bike as “quite nice” to mean “quite expensive.” My point was I would not leave a bike worth more than a few hundred $$ on any campus.</p>
<p>Stillwater, if you’ve set up your SUNet account your Stanford e-mail address should be functional. First send yourself an email via your current email program; send it to <a href=“mailto:yourID@stanford”>yourID@stanford</a>. edu. Then Google Stanford web mail, log in with SUNet i.d. and experience the joy of that moment!!</p>
<p>note about bikes: i would avoid buying 4-year service packages because a large percentage of students will get their bike stolen at least once in the first 2 years - the service package is only valid on that particular bike and you’ll need to buy a new one for a new bike. a 2-year package, if available, might be better</p>
<p>Ok so this is a totally different question. Are there any parents out there that have kids or had kids in the Hum bio program or management science and engineering? Both of these degrees are interdisciplinary and I’m just not sure what one does with them at the end of the day, especially if you don’t want premed or prelaw. I think that both have quite a nice course offering but no one can give me any specific jobs that you can do with them upon graduation. So are there any parents out there that are better informed.</p>
<p>Opphs, I forget I have another question. Since Stanford doesn’t offer business as a major, I’m assuming that kids who want to take that route take economics, am I correct? Also are there other routes that can stand as a psuedo business major? </p>
<p>Again thanks for all your help.</p>
<p>My D is a MS & E major. She looks at it as a modern business degree. Her plan is to get a MBA and then maybe go towards IBM or a consulting firm. She briefly considered Economics but decided it wasn’t for her.</p>
<p>/\ That’s exactly what I am doing. Perhaps a minor in economics, since I love it. I have found that the typical undergrad business degrees at other schools are pointless. An engineering degree will teach you to think critically and logically.</p>
<p>I think that MS & E degree sounds nice too. Again, not to be annoying what can you do with it after four years? Do you think the outside world respects it enough to look at it as a modern undergrad business degree? Can you get a job or do you need the MBA. I’m just looking for something that kids can do after four years. An MBA is great but thats another two years of tutition. Unless you can work for corporate america and then have them pay for your MBA through job reimbursement.</p>
<p>an MS&E degree is in almost all ways better than a normal undergrad business degree.</p>
<p>I know MS&E graduates that have been hired by banks (Citi), consulting firms (McKinsey, etc.), and local corporations without needing to get an MBA. however, many will still pursue a masters in MS&E (coterm), engineering masters, or MBA</p>
<p>wow, thanks for the info. I really appreciate it.</p>
<p>Remember, you CANNOT get an MBA straight out of undergraduate school. A requirement to get into Business schools is work experience. You’re expected to go back to get that MBA 2- 4 years after graduating your under grad typically.</p>
<p>MSE students have gone to a lot of places. Also, co-terming is a great option which i’ll definitely be doing</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of the fact that you need to work for 2-4 years before getting an MBA. Is that new? Also isn’t a coterminal degree a masters? So if you did that then you definitely wouldn’t be working 2-4 years before securing your MBA. (Funny thing is that both myself and Husband have an MBA but we switched career tracks so we did work before getting out degrees, I just don’t remember that being a stipulation.)</p>
<p>Dungareedoll, co-terming is not available for all Stanford undergrad departments, for example, I know that you can’t do it in economics. There is no undergrad degree in business administration, so there would be no co-term for that either.</p>
<p>Here are some useful links:</p>
<p>[Choosing</a> to Coterm | Undergraduate Academic Life](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/AP_choosing_coterm_Coterm.html]Choosing”>http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/AP_choosing_coterm_Coterm.html)</p>
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<p>[Welcome</a> to the Coterm Page | Undergraduate Academic Life](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/NBY_Coterm.html]Welcome”>Information and Resources for Current Students | Academic Advising)</p>
<p>For financial aid purposes, you are considered an undergrad while taking courses towards your co-term in the 3rd or 4th year. My nephew did his work for a bachelor’s and co-term master’s degree in 4 years, so any financial aid he was receiving would have worked towards the co-term.</p>
<p>If, as most students do, you complete the co-term requirements during a 5th year, you would not get any FA for that year.</p>
<p>Most MBA programs do want their students to have work experience before attending. This is not new.</p>
<p>Just as Gladmom said, an MBA is only pursued after you have had work experience.</p>
<p>It’s true that having several years’ work experience is expected by top MBA programs these days. However, on occasion students may still gain admission to top MBA programs straight out of undergraduate school if they make a compelling case for readiness. Another alternative is a joint JD/MBA program, which can be started right after undergrad and typically results in earning both graduate degrees in four years.</p>