<p>Even if you are not a big partier, I still highly recommend all-frosh dorms. I was certain I wanted to be in a four-class dorm so I could study, etc. and luckily at admit weekend I was told I should ask for an all-frosh dorm. I LOVED my freshman dorm. It was so much fun. I was never pressured to drink, party, etc. It’s a unique chance to get to make about 80 or so really awesome friends and just have a very social (like stopping by each others rooms and saying hi social) experience that you really can’t find in quite the same way as an upperclass student.</p>
<p>so i am going to be in the science/math/engineering focus, are there any freshman dorms suitable to “techie” types of people or are all dorms a nice mixture of fuzzies and techies</p>
<p>(wow i am already picking up stanford lingo!!)</p>
<p>All dorms for freshman should be a pretty good mix.</p>
<p>I would advocate the 4-class thing; they’re still quite social, and it’s not as wild as some of the all-frosh dorms. I distinctly remember walking around Branner at around 1 or 2 AM one weekend and there was a group playing tackle football in the hallways. I mean, yes, I was there stealing all the shower curtains with my dormmates, so I wasn’t exactly calm goody-two-shoes myself, but still. Also, having upperclassmen around is handy–we’re good sources of advice about classes, activities, etc. That, and we’re also good sources of cheaper books, since we’re usually looking to sell them off.</p>
<p>^That’s the impression that I’ve always been given; hence the hesitation in requesting a frosh dorm. Anyways, I’m pretty sure I’m doing SLE, so I only have 1/3 chance of an all-frosh dorm. :D</p>
<p>Magerie:</p>
<p>Almost all dorms you’d be living in as a frosh are a pretty good mix. SLE will get a disproportionate number of fuzzies, but there are definitely techies who do it. Some upperclass dorms are not quite the same mix–Lantana is humanities focus, so you can guess what type they get; Arroyo is SymSys focus and should in theory get more techies.</p>
<p>frosoco is REALLY far, i went there like once all freshmen year. ricker dining is the best dining hall though i think</p>
<p>I mean to be fair it’s not that far away from Lagunita. So it’s not ridiculously far…</p>
<p>But really; relative to other dorms it’s kinda in the middle of nowhere; that, and biking up and down everyday is no easy feat.</p>
<p>Agreed I wouldn’t live there myself but their food is good and it has its own distinct personalty that might appeal to certain people…</p>
<p>How easy is it to get a job around Stanford? Especially if I want to tutor high school students?</p>
<p>Tutoring high school students = easy as pie. As a chem major, I get several offers a quarter. If I had time this quarter I would’ve taken two of them–one paid $300 for ten hours, and one paid $50 an hour for about 2-3 hours a week for the quarter. You can call anywhere in the range of ~$30-50 an hour depending on the subject. Private tutoring pays well in this area, especially for techie stuff.</p>