My Stanford Story Index

Exploring and Getting the Most Out of Stanford

Create Your Stanford Tapestry (Alice Petty, Associate Dean for Residential Academic Advising)
Experiences Outside of the Classroom (Brandon Powell, Class of 2014)
How Stanford Brought Me To Italy (Lucio Mondavi, Class of 2015)
If You Can't Find Your Niche at Stanford, Go and Build it (An Luong, Class of 2015)
Learning by Doing (Tommy Tobin, Class of 2010)
Recovering from Academic Setbacks (Chris Fleming, Class of 2017)
Research Gave Meaning to My Undergraduate Years (Todd Davies, Lecturer and Associate Director of Symbolic Systems)
Research Out of Left Field (Lauren Selden, Class of 2023)
Stories Courts Tell: Human rights minor reflects on pathway to honors thesis (Alina Utrata, Class of 2017)
Talk to Your Advisor (Melissa Stevenson, Lead Academic Advising Director)
Taking a Course Outside My Field of Study (Patrick Crowley, Class of 2018)
Taking a Course Outside My Field of Study (Alvin Kim, Class of 2017)
This Magical Place (Imee Diego Dubose, Administrative Associate, Knight-Hennessy Scholars)
To Be of Greater Service (Raga Ayyagari, Class of 2017)
What Are Office Hours? Why Go? (Alice Stavely, Lecturer in English)
Why Students Should Come to Office Hours (James Hamilton, Hearst Professor of Communication)

Against Wind and Tide (Mirelys Mendez-Pons, Class of 2025)
The Best Life Coach: Theater (Jennifer Lauren Hamad, Class of 2025)
My Favorite Course Freshman Year (Clara Meister, Class of 2017)
My Favorite Course Freshman Year (Selby Sturzenegger, Class of 2018)
My ITALIC Story (Amber Levine, Class of 2018)
My ITALIC Story (Gloria Chua, Class of 2017)
My ITALIC Story (Nikki Tran, Class of 2018)
My ITALIC Story (Tori Testa, Class of 2018)
My PWR Story (Diego Hernandez, Class of 2017)
My PWR Story (Grace Klein, Class of 2018)
My PWR Story (Toamatapu Lohe, Class of 2016)
My PWR Story (Victoria White, Class of 2018)
My SLE Story (Arnelle Ansong, Class of 2018)
My SLE Story (Gabby Levikow, Class of 2018)
My SLE Story (Gianna Nino, Class of 2018)
My Student Athlete Story (Aria Fischer, Class of 2021)
Why I Teach an Introsem (Bert Patenaude, Lecturer in History and International Relations)
Why I Teach an Introsem (Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History)
Why I Teach an Introsem (Martin Kay, Professor of Linguistics)

Advice to my Frosh Self (Kimiko Hirota, Class of 2020)
Communiqué (Sienna White, Class of 2019)
First Year Challenges (Luis Bernabe, Class of 2017)
Flooded Washing Machines & Great Conversations: Capturing the Spirit of Stanford (Joe Bosetti, Class of 2020)
How I Became The Parable (Sienna White, Class of 2019)
Reflecting on Freshman Year (Hayden Payne, Class of 2019)
Through the Seasons (Hannah Llorin, Class of 2019)
Transitioning Well (Cindy Ng, Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Asian American Activities Center)
Unpacking My Suitcase (Amit Pasupathy, Class of 2019)
What I Wish I Had Known as a First-Year Student (Karen Lum, Class of 2011)

I Am Stanford (Matthew Mettias, Class of 2023)
I Am Stanford (Zoe Barley, Class of 2023)
I Am Stanford (Nico Lozano-Landinez, Class of 2018)
I Am Stanford (Rosie La Puma, Class of 2017)
I Am Stanford (Selby Sturzenegger, Class of 2018)
To My Fellow Stanfordians (Persiana Saffari, Class of 2019)
What Surprised Me Most About Stanford (Nico Lozano-Landinez, Class of 2018)
Why I Love Undergraduate Advising (Louis Newman, former Director of Academic Advising)
You Belong (Remy Gordon, Class of 2020)

My CS Story: How I learned my Path Wasn’t Set (Kate Elizabeth Stanton Baker, Class of 2025)
Finding My Major (Austin Bargmann, Class of 2019)
Finding My Major (Clara Meister, Class of 2017)
Finding My Major (Rosie La Puma, Class of 2017)
Finding My Way (Isaiah Drummond, Class of 2020)
How I Chose Aero/Astro (Isaiah Colobong, Class of 2023)
My Senior Thesis (Jonathan Levin, Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business)
Planning, But Not Paining (Courtney Gao, Class of 2020)
Why I Chose the MCS Major (Zach Robinson, Class of 2016)
Why I Chose Theater Instead of Science (Jane Casamajor, Production Manager in Theater and Performance Studies)
Why I'm An Urban Studies Major (Sean Volavong, Class of 2019)

Why I Teach Research Methods (Katrin Wheeler, Student Services Manager, Department of Communications)
From Namaste to Nirvana (Sonia Taneja, Lecturer in Hindi)
How I Came to Love Teaching Microeconomic Theory (Chris Makler, Lecturer in Economics)
Teaching is Personal (John Barton, Director of the Architectural Design Program)
Why I Teach Archaeology (Krish Seetah, Assistant Professor of Anthropology)
Why I Teach California Policy & Politics (David Crane, Lecturer in Public Policy)
Why I Teach History (Jonathan Gienapp, Assistant Professor of History)
Why I Teach the Literature of Adoption (Peggy Phelan, Ann O'Day Maples Professor in the Arts and Professor of English)
Why I Teach and Play the Harp (Marjorie Chauvel, Lecturer in Music)
Why I Teach Theatre and Performance Studies (Janice Ross, Professor (Teaching) of Theater and Performance Studies)
Why I Teach Underclassmen (Blair Hoxby, Associate Professor of English)
Why I Teach Using "Big Data" to Solve Social Problems (Raj Chetty, Professor of Economics)
Why We Teach Thinking Matters (Cari Costanzo, Ph.D Anthropology & Abraham Verghese, M.D.)