<p>The official online information is sparse. There is, however, an unofficial SLE wiki that has been maintained by students this year: <a href="http://slewiki.archoli.net/index.php?title=Main_Page%5B/url%5D">http://slewiki.archoli.net/index.php?title=Main_Page</a></p>
<p>Also - don't worry too much about getting in. Past history suggests that if you request it as #1 in your housing prefs and also just send an email to the coordinator saying "I want to do SLE", you'll probably get it. As a comparison, DS's (@Yale) app is more intimidating, but most everyone still ends up getting it. (And unlike DS, which apparently has many drops after the first semester (I know several), most everyone has stuck with SLE).</p>
<p>Just fyi, there are plenty of writing tutors on campus even if you're not in SLE. There are several residential writing tutors (who may live in your dorm) and then there is an entire writing center with writing tutors. I've heard great things about most of the writing tutors. Also, in PWR 1 you meet one-on-one with your prof to go over your writing and see how you can improve. I think it's probably fair to guess that IHUM papers are of lower quality. Naturally if you really want to improve your writing you can take IHUM papers seriously and meet with your TF/writing tutors and really improve your writing.</p>
<p>Also, I can email any of you a copy of the Winter Quarter syllabus that lists all the books we read this past quarter and so on.</p>
<p>I would love a copy of the Winter syllabus. Email is <a href="mailto:mat11@bellsouth.net">mat11@bellsouth.net</a></p>
<p>One of the things to note about SLE when compared to the Columbia Core, DS, the Princeton equivalent, etc... (even to St. John's) is that it's much more modernity oriented. We spend a full third of the course (one quarter) covering the late 19th (starting with Marx) and 20th centuries.</p>
<p>zephyr, I wouldn't mind an email either. <a href="mailto:garrettn23@cox.net">garrettn23@cox.net</a></p>
<p>Please send me a copy as well, zephyr. :)
<a href="mailto:ebonytear@hotmail.com">ebonytear@hotmail.com</a></p>
<p>WOW!! For some of those weeks, there seems to be a ton of reading. Do the people in SLE have social lives. I mean some of the reading seems feesible (200 pages a week), but for other weeks, that number is up to 4 or 500. I love the books you guys read though and the discussion topics, but how do you get out of that world??</p>
<p>Keep in mind that SLE constitutes between half and 2/3 of your academic work each quarter.</p>
<p>The BIG SECRET is that almost all students don't do all the reading.</p>
<p>Though SLE constitutes between half and two thirds of your credit, it often ends up being less than that portoin of your work - I certainly have found myself minimizing my SLE workload as much as possible. This is really too bad, considering how worthwhile the program is.</p>
<p>Is there any way to sit in on SLE classes at admit weekend? If so, any advice on how to make sure I do that? (e.g. class schedules or something)</p>
<p>Marc Mancall is the director of the program (lki, zephyr, correct me on this?) -- I met him during my admit weekend and thought he was fabulous.</p>
<p>Now, a shameless plug -- if you're looking for another sorta unconventional way to spend your freshman year, check out the freshman sophomore college (frosoco.stanford.edu) ... next to SLE, it's also quite intense and a blast :)</p>
<p>SLE classes are Tues, Wed, Thurs. </p>
<p>Are you here on Thursday? You might be able to sit in on discussion.</p>
<p>zephyr, was that directed to me? I won't be visiting until the 20th.</p>
<p>EDIT: Perhaps you mean will I be here on [ a ] Thursday? If so, I will be at Stanford Thurs. the 20th.</p>
<p>Someone, in what way is FroSoCo intense?</p>
<p>Stambliark, that's what I was asking. </p>
<p>You might be able to sit in on SLE discussion, then.</p>
<p>zephyr, I will do my best to be there. I have yet another question for you. You said earlier that most SLE students don't do all of the reading. Maybe I'm just idealistic, but I was kinda hoping to get past that after high school. I guess I am being tired of being spread so thin that I am not really able to put my heart into every class and assignment (I have 7 APs this year). Is this overwhelmed/overworked state particularly typical of SLE students or is there just a lot going on regardless of what courses you are in?</p>
<p>Keep in mind I'm not just asking this as an excuse to be lazy. It's more of an effort to really apply myself to what I am in rather than just put in the minimum effort it takes to get an A (or B).</p>
<p>i'm a stanford student not in sle, and i think that not doing the reading is pretty standard for college students everywhere. i really like my ihum and find the reading manageable, and i've pretty much done all the reading...but this is largely based on interest in your ihum...i chose ihum over sle partly because you have a choice between a lot of different classes in different departments (anthro, religious studies, classics, comp. lit, philosophy, etc), and you change classes after fall quarter, whereas with sle everybody does the same thing (the schedule looked a bit too classics-focused for me).</p>
<p>oh and reading for ihum is maybe about 60 pages a week, depending on how dense the article is. also, you can take an introductory seminar that fulfills your pwr-2 requirement during your freshman year, so it IS possible to fulfill the same stuff as SLE without doing SLE in your freshman year without using as many of your units (you can only take 20 units per quarter):</p>
<p>IHUM all three quarters=15 units
PWR I=4 units
PWR II (or equivalent introsem)= 4 units
total 23 units for the entire year</p>
<p>SLE fall and winter= 18 units
SLE spring=10 units
total 28 units</p>