My visit to Stanford disillusioned me. Stanford’s a beautiful and wonderful school, but just visiting the campus alone made me realize that it’s not the school for me. It has an overwhelmingly scholarly aria, and the walk around the campus felt kind of lonely. I guess what I want to say is that I don’t really want to go there. I would rather go to a small, elitist liberal arts college OR a more amicable public school (i.e. a UC or CSU). It’s not like I have the grades or extracurriculars for Stanford anyway.

Sitting with Sarah on the charter bus made me feel pretty comfortable because I could talk to her and Annie. There are some cliques in the class, but I think everyone is relatively approachable in French (lots of Stover kids, actually).  The tour around the museum was pretty boring, except the tour guide reminded me of an overly zealous five-year-old high on candy. After the tour, we ate lunch. (At least me and Annie did. Sarah went to the ripoff café.) After lunch, we went on campus and saw more of Rodin’s works. Our group went inside the church, which was really pretty. It reminded me of when I still wanted a huge church wedding. I don’t really believe in marriage anymore, but enough of that iconoclastic bs; I digress.

I regretted not looking at more of the contemporary art in the museum. Maybe I’ll visit during the summer.

Here are two of my favorite pieces in the museum. The painting is by Lobdell, and I absolutely love it because of the bright colours and symbolism of unity, integration, and fitting in. It also reminded me of biology’s allosteric regulation and enzyme-substrate complex, and y’all know how much I love biology. The statue is Rodin’s “Eve.” Though she is a biblical character, I love Eve because her statue evokes feelings of shame, alienation, and sorrow. She just looks so sad and distraught. She reminds me of myself. Pathetic.

Well, that’s it. I have to get to work on English and math.