I spent the last 3 days trekking like a nomad on Stanford.

Mind you, a swag-looking-wireless-earphones-in-Kpop-haired nomad.

Anyways, I wasn't really interested in sitting in on classes. For one, it was finals week, so unless you wanna be misconceived as one of those absent-for-whole-semester-but-shows-up-only-for-exam college students, it's not a good idea to pop in right after the professor has finished teaching for the year and is going over what's going to be on the exam.

I did, however, sit in one Linear Alg class and one intro-CS class. I kind of got visually ignored by the nervous-looking professor and the half-awake group of ~10 students for the former despite me sitting in the front row looking business-like so let's not talk about that. As for the CS, well, the picture below summarizes it well.

Mostly, though, I just walked around, observing students and activities on campus, exploring some buildings, overhearing tours and conversations, etc.

[BELOW IS MY PERSONAL OPINION BASED ON OBSERVATIONS.]

Stanford overall feels much different from the east-coast schools I've visited/sensed. Although it's well-known west and east coast schools have their differences, many have turned on a blind eye on these differences and regarded Stanford among the other top-tier schools in the east, when in fact, Stanford has different feel to it.

In general, Stanford students seem very intellectual but are very laid-back.

By intellectual, I mean they're all eager to learn. As I walk around, most of the conversations I overhear are generally academic in nature. Even during finals week, I've heard conversations from music composers to robotics.

Yet, I feel the campus lacks the kind of intensity present in east-coast breeding chambers like Harvard or MIT. The campus is beautiful and historical, and students are chill, reserved, and friendly, but there lacks the kind of studiousness that defines east coast schools and the accompanying vitality (e.g. frats) that give the campus a tight-knit community culture.

Nevertheless, the campus is like a page out of a story book and the resources are plentiful, and an overall positive experience for me. Check out my FB for more pics later.