<p>Wow...still surreal...arms still purple and gangrene from compulsive pinching...
so happy i'm gonna scream!!
I can't wait to meet you all at Admit weekend! Do they pay for the plane tix - I know the UCs do it. free laundry, baby! and maid service...</p>
<p>Did anyone get their official awesome water-marked, stanford-sealed GIANT BIGASSSSSSSSS envelope yet? I can't wait to laminate and frame it and tattoo it on my elbow. Stanford is going to be awesome!! </p>
<p>Anyhoo, just wondering if anyone's going to school at all anymore or am I missing out on some major parties? isn't it 45 thou a year with room and board, 'cause i should get a head start on stripping to pay for tuition...</p>
<p>I hope my envelope gets here before Christmas. That would be a sweet gift from heaven. About the stripping- I think it would be a public offense if I started stripping for money...</p>
<p>i remember on the tour, the guy said you could stay at some awesome dorm room, well it was more of a dorm house, where you had a chef and a maid. although that might be for upperclassmen, not froshes like us. its going to be awesome though.</p>
<p>ooh...tell me about the tour....I"ve been to the campus a couple of times, but never had the guts to actually get the tour in case I got rejected and had to remember all the awesome things i'd seen. I keep dreaming about banging against that giant red gate tho. hehe</p>
<p>weeelllll, i went this summer with my parents, and id never seen stanford before so it was absolutely amazing. i kept on telling myself during the tour to not get attached, because i didnt think id get in. </p>
<p>it was summer, so there weren't any classes that i could go see or dorms or anything, but we saw most of the campus; hoover tower, the quad, memorial chuch. they didnt have the typical information session deal, so the tour guide (who was a very, very attractive lacrosse player history major) gave us the 411 on academics/clubs/sports/study abroad etc.<br>
lets see, some fun facts that i remember:
during finals/midterms week, the chef (whos like a crazy four star restaurant chef) cooks amazing "comfort food" just for us stressed-out students- turkey, mashed potatoes, apple pie
besides the houses where you actually have BUTLERS, (and it costs about the same as regular dorming), there are also houses/dorms where you take turns cooking and stuff
and of course, the bikes, but im sure everyone knows about them already. does anyone here plan on getting one for campus?</p>
<p>oh, and do they really pay for the plane ticket to admit week?!</p>
<p>well, they paid last year for the admitted peoples... and if UC berkeley does it every year, i'm pretty sure stanford would too.
wow, a butler! sweet! does the chef thing cost extra?</p>
<p>ooh...we get to go bike-shopping. does anyone on campus ride a motorcycle? I have an excuse to actually buy one now. and hopefully NOT bash myself into a tree before I actually get to go.</p>
<p>so does that mean STanford's tour and everything was better than the harvard/yale ones? the yale one was amazing - at least it was in 8th grade...but the harvard one was just average. and a little forced.</p>
<p>I thought the Stanford tour was much better than the Harvard tour, but maybe that's just because I loved the campus and atmosphere so much more. The tour guide also seemed more knowledgable and informative.</p>
<p>so i take it that means you thought he was "a very, very attractive lacrosse player history major" too? haha
what exactly was the atmosphere? awesome is not good enough an answer. was it the chef that won you over?</p>
<p>No, mine was a flamboyant midwest guy named Bries. The atmosphere? It was relaxed, comfortable, focused on learning and following your passions rather than grades and following any strict guidelines. I got the impression that whatever you like to do, Stanford can accomodate you and help you find other people who like what you do.</p>
<p>that sounds perfect! wow, admit weekend looks fabulous - anyone check out the awesome website "just for us?"
there's a chick named liberty - that's tight, and we have the same fav movie.</p>
<p>FREE PLANE TICKETS?!?!
speaking of which...
I just got my acceptance letter in the mail today! Along with it came the Financial Aid statement.
All I have to say is <i>wow</i>
when I saw it, i was like MOM! DID YOU SAY WE WERE LIVING IN POVERTY? </p>
<p>I love Stanford. I love their financial aid office too.</p>
<p>lol... so Tknows, are you Southern or Northern Cali? I will go stand guard next to my mailbox now.
what does the envelope look like? is it water-marked and sealed with wax? does it smell like success? what do you think you'll do with the letter? fingers crossed. I had this dream where the letter came and it rejected me because they found out I was ASian. very bizarre.
i'm gonna go frame-shopping!</p>
<p>haha, I'm from Philadelphia actually so the free plane tickets will come in extra handy.</p>
<p>its aroma of success its so strong that I suggest you waft the aroma towards yourself like they teach you in Chem. It has congratulations written on the front so it would have killed the entire straight-from-the-movies slow-anticipation opening of the envelope.</p>
<p>I found out online and my mom printed out like 500 copies "incase they get lost"</p>
<p>OHG! I printed out like 30,000 copies and spread them out everywhere in my house adn gave them to random people. I slept with a copy under my pillow in case i woke up friday morning and it was all a cruel horrible dream. wow...that sounds like one hell of an envelope. and finally! some application of my hard-earned chem skills! lol
is congratulations written with giant cursive letters? did you hear a heavenly chorus? did the universe pause? did your life flash before your eyes?</p>
<p>I believe the congratulations is most definitely a 28pt. italicized Arial with letters spacing set at wide.</p>
<p>lol! It's kinda like that feeling right before you fall asleep when you know you're still awake but you're not aware of anything happening around you. you're just going to have to experience the act of holding the official envelope in your hand for yourself.</p>