Local tourism: Stanford Campus Walking Tour
Today I took Ginger Boy to Stanford to go on the Stanford Campus Walking Tour. I was hoping for more information about the campus features, but it was really geared at selling Stanford to prospective undergraduates and describing the Stanford experience.
File photo of a tour at Stanford, because I was too busy with GingerBoy to take pix
The tours are free and are given twice a day during the terms (Stanford holidays excepted). They meet at 11 and 3:15 at the visitor's center and last approximately 70 minutes. It's a long walk, but the instructors are doing it backwards, so who would complain?! :)
Our tour guide was an adorable undergraduate who is every Jewish mother's dream come true - an engineering major, modern languages minor & staff member at the campus news member, who also does tae kwon do, Shakespeare drama trips and volunteers at Hillel. I didn't ask him when he had time to sleep. I did get a twinge of regret about my own missed opportunities. I should have done more extracurricular activities! But that's a different story.
All in all, it's a decent introduction to the Stanford campus, though if you don't care to listen to neurotic parents' questions about campus life, take the self-guided version.
More about the guides here:
http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=28666
File photo of a tour at Stanford, because I was too busy with GingerBoy to take pix
The tours are free and are given twice a day during the terms (Stanford holidays excepted). They meet at 11 and 3:15 at the visitor's center and last approximately 70 minutes. It's a long walk, but the instructors are doing it backwards, so who would complain?! :)
Our tour guide was an adorable undergraduate who is every Jewish mother's dream come true - an engineering major, modern languages minor & staff member at the campus news member, who also does tae kwon do, Shakespeare drama trips and volunteers at Hillel. I didn't ask him when he had time to sleep. I did get a twinge of regret about my own missed opportunities. I should have done more extracurricular activities! But that's a different story.
All in all, it's a decent introduction to the Stanford campus, though if you don't care to listen to neurotic parents' questions about campus life, take the self-guided version.
More about the guides here:
http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=28666