<p>I completely agree ^. For the record, and in case you’re misunderstanding the purpose of my inquiries on this thread, our decision was already made a long time ago and will not be influenced by any of your comments.</p>
<p>However, that’s not to say I and others like me aren’t curious and won’t question why posters are saying what they do. In some socio-educational circles, college selection choices are of primary importance and elicit commentary from friends and strangers. After a while, if you hear a particular point of view about a school expressed often enough, you start to wonder what the genesiss of that idea is. Is it a concept of supposed popular wisdom with neither personal nor objective basis in fact that individuals just continue to perpetuate? (An example of this would be the statement: “Harvard is not good for undergrad.” Really??) Or is there some kernel of truth to it you can learn, once you separate it from bias and hyperbole? After all, and also for the record, when D asked her Stanford hostess if there was anything special she needed to bring for her visit, the answer was raincoat and boots. And indeed, it rained every day while D was there. And there were plenty of puddles. Soooooo…</p>
<p>Some peope are insecure by nature and need validation of their impressions and decisions. Others have zero knowledgeable people arouind them to guide them in the college selection process, and that’s why they read CC. I’m sure also that there are students from the opposite coast who might not have the opportunity to visit Stanford to form their own first-hand impressions. And lastly, there are plenty of folks who will pick apart the validity of published reports like USNWR rankings, so it’s hard to know what to think sometimes. Hence, people look for information wherever they can find it.</p>
<p>I don’t know why people are complaining about 15.71 inches of rain a year. It really isn’t that much, In London, it’s around 23 inches and I don’t think it rains particularly much. Just an occasional drizzle.</p>
<p>The annual rainfall at Stanford, in the aggregate, is rather low, but it is concentrated during Winter quarter. Someone visiting the campus then would probably experience several consecutive days with some rain. It becomes steadily less rainy as Spring progresses, and then it is most often sunny from mid-Spring through much of Fall quarter. (It’s so dry during the summer, in fact, that “Lake” Lagunita ceases to exist as a lake until the following winter.)</p>
<p>I always giggle when people complain about the rain in Stanford. I understand that when the rain is all concentrated in winter quarter, it’s depressing. That said, here in MD, it usually rains 3-4 days a week, all year - I think that’s a lot worse. It’s a matter of putting this in perspective. Yes, it rains all of winter quarter. At least it doesn’t snow.</p>
<p>thecardinal: it doesn’t seem healthy to be hateful about a place such as Stanford, or the quality of people in Palo Alto, or the nature of California weather.</p>
<p>Coming from the midwest, I kinda missed snow. But then I realized I only missed the snowstorms, like waking up on a Saturday morning (around noon, of course) to 7 inches of glistening powder covering the neighborhood out my window, with my dogs plodding around the yard and eventually coming inside with snowflakes all over them. But what I forgot (until I came home to a blizzard) is that snow quickly: melts, gets trampled on, gets dirty, turns into icy-slush, etc. I don’t think many people miss that. </p>
<p>You could also go to Tahoe for a weekend. And hopefully when you leave it’s raining at Stanford, cause then it’s probably gonna snow up in Tahoe. So you’ll be having great face shots while your friends back at campus are left dealing with rain. haha nothing beats that.</p>
<p>Palo Alto (and the Peninsula in general) has, overall, the most perfect weather I have ever experienced. One could make an argument for Southern California, but I find that too hot and with too little rain – it’s really a desert that requires massive and ecologically destructive importation of water, plus air conditioning, to allow people to live there. It’s monumentally silly to whine about the fact that it may drizzle on and off for a few days running during the winter.</p>
<p>Something must be going right at Stanford. Excerpts from today’s online Stanford Daily. </p>
<p>“A record number of prospective freshmen have signed up to attend Admit Weekend, which starts Thursday, leaving coordinators in a scramble to ensure that there will be enough room hosts to accommodate next weekend’s 1,335 expected “ProFros.”</p>
<p>“Coordinators have not made any changes to the weekend’s programming because of the surge in R.S.V.P.s.”</p>
<p>Importation of water, yes. Air conditioning, no. Southern Cal definitely cannot get by without bringing in water but air conditioning is not required for the majority of residents. In the towns clustered near the coast the temperature is moderate enough that few houses have or need air conditioning. And that’s where most of the people live.</p>
<p>I don’t have air conditioning (in San Diego), and neither do any of my neighbors. And there are only about 2 weeks worth of days scattered through every summer where it gets hot enough that you wish you had it. It is only as you move farther and farther to the east toward the desert that you commonly get temperatures hot enough to make installing AC worth the money.</p>
<p>I gotta say that the gym here sucks balls. I was a undergrad from a mediocre sport school but it got a MUCH nicer recreational center than the Arrillaga. no locker room… really? no showers? no indoor soccer/table tennis/badminton? and it opened only in 2006?? come on you guys can do better than that</p>
<p>^ Agreed, though I did see some sort of locker room in the Arillaga gymnasium? Badminton and table tennis sound like great ideas, though to Stanford’s credit, there are ping pong tables in the dorms.</p>
I hate it too, but this years rainfall seems atypical. It’s my fourth year here and I haven’t seen anything like it. Usually it just rains for a month during winter quarter.</p>
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Which weight room are you talking about? Arrillaga? Come on, the place is decent. Do you know that Cornell makes you pay for gym? Moreover, did you know that you can work out where the Stanford athletes do? Look into it. There are options.</p>
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I have met some sad stories, but I have also had my *** handed to me. I think you’ll see both. Hey, every class has a bottom quarter. :)</p>
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All in due time grasshopper. Have to take the intros after all.</p>
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I agree that professors might be rude. But they are also human and make exceptions. Cherish that.</p>
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Welcome to college.</p>
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The quarter system pains me more than you know – I hate being rushed – but I wouldn’t call it superficial, I’d call it hectic.</p>
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I got actually hit by a bike rider and he said “ooops.” I was bleeding and the little **** couldn’t even muster “I am sorry.” I have since prepare myself for kicking.</p>
<p>Would people stop saying that? There ARE lockers. There isn’t one single gym. Don’t go to Arrillaga. Go where athletes do. (I can’t believe that I am telling you this… That’s where I go… Errr… Don’t bring your friends.) Showers and everything. Enough with the rumors.</p>
And finally, cardfan, I don’t mean to be rude, but would you stop posting about this already. It’s off topic, you did it multiple times, and if you dare to take a listen, you’ll hear that… gasp… nobody cares!!! Stanford and the ProFos will inevitably survive these hard times. Last year there were 1,200 ProFros. An 11.25% increase isreally not all that much.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice TorturedSoulBoy. In this thread, I posted once about admit week, 14 days ago.</p>
<p>I will post once more only to respond to your statement. The quote from the Stanford Daily article I linked states, “According to Shaw, the current number of registered RoHos is in line with last year’s, but the increase of ProFros by approximately 400 means more hosts are needed.” Is the Stanford Daily statement incorrect?</p>