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Things I'm Good At:

• How 'bout all those Nobel prizes? Yeah, all twenty-two, to be exact.


• I've got thirty-six NCAA teams and more national championships than I can even count.


• I've got some humanities programs that would rival even the most Ivy'd of east coast schools. For example, I've got one of the best philosophy departments in the country.


• I have a whole non-profit organization devoted to helping students create the next Google or Instagram. It's called StartX.


• My engineering and science programs are among the top in the world.


• I had fifteen Olympic medalists in the 2012 games alone.
     
• Chamber Music. Delightful, I know.

My Top 5 Must-Haves:

1. Brains.


2. Brawn. By that, I mean a dogged and insatiable need to make something of yourself and to change the world while you're at it.


3. Flip-flops.


4. My passport. With thirteen official study abroad programs and a ton of other opportunities to travel the globe, I've gotta have this puppy on me at all times.


5. A bike.

Why You Might Have Heard of Me:

• I've got my own golf course, my own barn, my own biological preserve, and my own hospital. Did I mention you'll never have to leave?


• FMOTQ (Full Moon On The Quad) FTW


• Stanford Speak. HooTow anyone? MemChu? FloMo? CoHo? Okay, I'll stop. FroSoCo.


• Football. Two Rose Bowls in a row, baby.
      
• The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band. They're, uh. A little wacky. You have to see them to believe 'em.
     
• Our yearly powwow is a pretty big deal. It's got a long history and a growing number of attendees. We're proud of our Native American pride.

On a regular Saturday night, you can find me...

• Coding the next big thing.


• Fountain-hopping if it's warm.


• Studying.


• Steam tunneling. Or sky tunneling. Sometimes both.


• Hanging out in my RA's room.

Favorite Hangouts:

• The CoHo. Mediocre coffee at 10:00p.m., anyone?


• White Plaza. What are we protesting/partying about today?


• The Treehouse, for those inescapable "I can't believe I ate that whole plate of nachos" moments.


• Anywhere outside. It's California, after all.


• University Ave, for those rare and fleeting moments when your money is burning a hole through your pocket.

Quirks:

• We're on the quarter system. I ain't got time for semesters. Before you know it, you're in a midterm. Before your know it again, it's finals week. Hey, what's that over there? Whoops, now it's summer. Oh wait, it's summer here all the time.


• Free laundry, baby. Let me say that again: Free. Laundry.


• I have a magnetic building. No, I'm not telling you where it is.


• Every Sunday at 9:00PM, a different choir sings Compline in the loft of a candle-lit Memorial Church. It's gorgeous. And open to the public.


• It's midnight. Finals week. Time for the Primal Scream.

Famous Alumni:

• Sigourney Weaver, because it sure takes brains and brawn to outsmart a certain little alien
    
• Tim Westergren, co-founder of Pandora.


• Former U.S. president Herbert Hoover
    
• Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, co-founders of Instagram.
    
• Reid Hoffman, founder of Linkedin.


• The late and great Sally Ride, first woman in outer space
    
• Larry Page and Segey Brin, co-founders of Google.


• John Steinbeck, for a teensy weensy moment


• Reese Witherspoon
    
• David Filo and Jerry Yang, co-founders of Yahoo!
    
• Shmoop's founder and Shmoop's CEO


• Tiger Woods

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