What are the people like at Stanford?

BigMike3541
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:34:26 +0000

@zenkoan you’ll be happy to know that the stanford dining meal plans cost way to much to be affected by changes in stanford’s endowment lol. But no, the dining halls have been marching steadily along the more healthy/organic (now completely organic) path the whole time I’ve been at stanford.

I think you could go through stanford without noticing where the budget cuts are really being taken. certainly hasn’t affected my life any. a lot of students complained about the community centers having less money/staff, but I had felt like there was some dead weight in those areas anyway. Student group budgets have been affected, but I dont think they’ve been affected to the point that they can’t function. one of the bigger things is that the interdisciplinary studies for the humanities program disappeared. although if you did want to do some interdisciplinary work there, im sure you could still do it, just would take more initiative on your part. I know that the admissions office hired half has many students as usual due to budget cuts, and I imagine that a lot of other departments/offices on campus did the same.

but really, my day to day hasn’t changed much so its all meh (for me)