Student

Although PWR was not my favorite course freshman year, my passion for anthropology started as a result of PWR. My final research-based argument (RBA) investigated the mourning rituals of Pakistani women and how those rituals further enforced the typical gender roles and social structure of Pakistan.

A little bit about myself: I have lived right outside of Charlotte, North Carolina for my entire life. I enjoy outdoorsy activities, travelling, shopping, and baking sweets for my friends. My sister recently graduated from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is one of those quietly brilliant types as well as one of my inspirations. My other “familial” pride and joy is my dog, Chloe, whom I admittedly treat like a mini-human and spoil to death. I keep in constant touch with my family, including Chloe, of course, over Skype.

Coming into my first year at Stanford, I wanted to focus solely on engineering requirements and mandatory freshman year classes. For some reason, I thought that if I loaded my plate with math, science and engineering classes, I would be able to  decide on which exact major I was most interested in more quickly. Despite these intentions, I had a little bit of space in my schedule winter quarter.  I decided to look around on ExploreCourses to see if any classes really interested me.  

" Devote yourself to what you find worth living for, and spend your time, in college and the life thereafter, doing just that. " 

 - Jessica, '14

SLE first appealed to me because of a gap in my understanding of Western history. I had studied Classics in high school and felt fairly familiar with Ancient Greek and Roman civilization. I had also made enough haphazard attempts to read the news so that I sort of understood what was going on in the world. The eighteen hundred years ranging from the Roman Empire to the Great Depression were a dark hole with fuzzy borders. I figured that if I did not fill the hole freshman year, I would never properly do so. I signed up for SLE.

"He is definitely a faculty member I feel like I could go to for advice, feedback, or even a letter of recommendation (which I have done, in fact)."  

- Micaela Suminski, '17 

"You come in with a preexisting set of strategies or study habits, and you find that you have to adapt relatively quickly."  

- Luis Bernabe, '17 

The Channel Tree News team takes a look at the life and eventual murder of one Stanford's most treasured mentors and icons: the J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library. Utilizing the medium paved by Chevy Chase on the Weekend Update and Jon Stewart on the Daily show, the Channel Tree News team is sure to make your eyes burst out in pathetic tears as we unearth the secrets of Meyer Library's family, childhood, and eventual collapse into Charlie-Sheen-like angel dust. 

"My honest suggestions would be to 1) talk to upperclassmen and 2) KEEP AN OPEN MIND. College is a time to explore. Take classes across a bunch of different disciplines-even if the only outcome is that you fulfill a WAYS requirement. " 

 - Clara Meister, '17