by Luke Wigren, ’11
“It is by realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be, that vast improvements may be accomplished.”
-Leland Stanford, Congressional Record, May 23rd, 1890
Looking back on my time at Stanford, I find myself questioning — most of all — my own foolishness. There were the numerous all-nighters I pulled in the Toyon Eating Clubs (R.I.P.), and the long afternoons I passed doing nothing but writing lyrics on the walls of XOX’s Chapter Room (R.I.P.). Also, there was the entire quarter I devoted myself to studying famed Stanford dropout John Steinbeck in a class entitled “Holistic Biology” (R.I.P.). The class culminated in a four week research voyage, a pilgrimage of sorts, to Baja California and in true Steinbeck-ian form, it fulfilled nearly zero requirements towards my major or towards graduation.
If someone asked me to tell them what made my time at Stanford unique or enriching, these are the moments to which I would inevitably return. Continue reading
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