(‘16, Political Science/Chinese & Creative Writing) has spent most of her life in New Jersey, but don’t hold it against her. She enjoys traveling internationally, attending musicals, writing anything that doesn’t require MLA citations, and binge-watching shows on Netflix that everybody else has already seen.
Whether you have back to backs on back to back days, or you’re one of those people that everyone hates who ‘only had paper-based finals due last week,’ it’s always good to re-up on some new jams in mid-December. To pump it up or kick back, find a tasty pick harvested by Stanford’s finest below. Read more…
Close-up on a girl sobbing about her rejection from the prestigious California University of Palo Alto (CUPA). But Quinn (Jackie Emerson, ’17) doesn’t let a mere letter stop her dreams of academic success and promoting her Tumblr dedicated to cats struggling with foreclosure. She fakes an acceptance and embarks on her adventure as an impostor freshman at CUPA, and we are thus introduced to a slew of students who serve as tour guides at the university.
The date was Tuesday, December 31, 2013. It was late evening. I arrived at Pier 94 on the lower West side of Manhattan with some Stanford folk, eager to listen to the musical styling of the Swedish DJ, Alesso.
It’s one thing to know about cool, unheard of music; it’s another to know about cool, unheard of music and be a bitch about it.
I walked into The Book of Mormon in New York City with a stomach full of brunch, expecting a delightfully inappropriate musical about Mormons in Africa. What I got was exactly that, and more: a change in perspective.