Questions about Stanford

celestial605
Sun, 27 Aug 2006 02:18:07 +0000

To follow up marlgirl’s post, the bulletin is online at http://bulletin.stanford.edu in case you didn’t know - click Current Bulletin. I don’t necessarily agree on the units - I have friends who regularly take 19-20 units a quarter. I also have friends who take about 15. So, that’ll be up to you… If you happen to go to Stanford (or I guess this applies anywhere), don’t take TOO many classes your first quarter/semester, so you can gauge how difficult the courseload is.

As for me, I’m a Biological Sciences major (I don’t know why they don’t just call it biology). It’s a somewhat competitive major because there are many people in it, and a lot of them are pre-med (extremely smart). But, I think it’s really interesting and you can choose an honors track… mine is Neurobiology. You can look up the other tracks on the bulletin. I’m also a Psychology minor, in the #1 Psychology department in the nation =D Go Stanford!

By the way… going along with that… there are some really famous professors in those departments (and all departments). It’s awe-inspiring to read about a scientist’s discoveries in a textbook and take a seminar with them the next quarter. And most of them are pretty easy to talk to =]