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If you don't have a car, consider living on one of streets off of University Avenue in the downtown where you can walk to campus but still enjoy the nightlife.

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Stanford is located in Palo Alto, California.

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• Tea Time- Cute little tea place right off of University Ave that had wi-fi and a huge list of teas and lemon curd served with tasty scones and sandwhiches. Outside seating good for tea dates.
  
  

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• The Stem Cell- the science, ethics, business and politics of stem cell research.
  
• Simon Jackman's Blog- Professor Simon Jackman from the Department of Political Science blogs on observations from the intersection of politics, statistics, computing and even a dash of graphic design. An expert on statistical methods and data analysis in the social sciences, Jackman routinely blogs on polls, sampling and electoral matters. In the Fall of 2007, Jackman is blogging regularly on the upcoming federal election in his country of origin, Australia, dispensing a mix of rigorous analysis, wit and elegant statistical graphs tracking public opinion and fluctuations in the on-line election betting markets over the campaign.
  
• Silverkeys - blog by fourth-year undergraduate at Stanford University who is studying for a degree in English lit and hoping desperately to be accepted into an MFA program for Creative Writing (poetry) post-graduation.
  
• Grad School Mommy - blog by Stanford JD/PhD Sociology student with children.
  
• Help Yourself- - blog by Stanford student Jason Shen who is an athlete and micropreneur who is working to improve the world. He blog is about of innovative and inspirational ideas for bettering yourself and world around you.
  
• Grad Life - blog by Richa, a grad student at Stanford
  
• Over My Med Body!- blog by medical student at Stamford
  
• Sakat Vora - blog by grad student studying electrical engineering at Stanford
  
• The Official LoveChild Reality Blog- blog on entrepreneurship, as seen from the kid's clubhouse. Follow 3 young Stanford entrepreneurs as they document the process of building a company out of a Facebook Application.
  
• Life of a Nerd- blog by Stanford student
  
• Ziads: My Days at Stanford - thoughts of an Egyptian studying at Stanford Business School
  
• TheCollegeDays- my life as an international student at the Computer Science department at Stanford, also includes facets from my life apart from grad school - the life i left back in India, the people i meet along the way - and some interesting observations!
  
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Stanford Alumni Association- an online community for Stanford alumni

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On Oct. 1, 1891, Stanford University opened its doors after six years of planning and building. In the early morning hours, construction workers were still preparing the Inner Quadrangle for the ceremonies. The great arch at the western end had been backed with panels of red and white cloth to form an alcove where dignitaries would sit.

The 2,000 seats set up in the three-acre Quad soon proved insufficient for the growing crowd. By midmorning, people were streaming across fields on foot. At half past 10, the special train from San Francisco arrived on the temporary spur that had been used during construction. As a faculty member recalled, “Hope was in every heart, and the presiding spirit of freedom prompted us to dare greatly.”

Jane and Leland Stanford established the university in memory of their only child, Leland Jr., who died of typhoid fever at 15. Within weeks of his 1884 death, the Stanfords determined that, because they no longer could do anything for their own child, they would use their wealth to do something for “other people’s” children.

They settled on creating a great university, one that, from the outset, was untraditional: coeducational in a time when most private universities were all-male; nondenominational when most were associated with a religious organization; and avowedly practical, producing “cultured and useful citizens” when most were concerned only with the former.

Leland Stanford devoted to the university the fortune he had amassed, first by supplying provisions to the ’49ers mining for California gold and later as one of the “Big Four,” whose Central Pacific Railroad laid tracks eastward to meet the Union Pacific and complete the transcontinental railway. Included in the grant to the new university was the Stanfords’ more than 8,000-acre Palo Alto Stock Farm for the breeding and training of trotting horses and thoroughbred stock, 35 miles south of the family’s San Francisco residence. The campus still carries the nickname “the Farm.”

Under the direction of Frederick Law Olmsted, the famed landscape architect who created New York’s Central Park, and Charles Allerton Coolidge, a 28-year-old who designed the buildings, the farm’s open fields became the site of arcades and quadrangles. In a 1913 letter, Stanford’s first president, David Starr Jordan, wrote: “The yellow sandstone arches and cloisters, the ‘red-tiled roofs against the azure sky,’ make a picture that can never be forgotten, itself an integral part of a Stanford education.”

On the university’s opening day, Jordan said to Stanford’s pioneer class: “It is for us as teachers and students in the university’s first year to lay the foundations of a school which may last as long as human civilization. ... It is hallowed by no traditions; it is hampered by none. Its finger posts all point forward.”