(moody R&B music)
- I'm Sam Clark, with Crimson Education,
and we're here at Stanford University to ask some
big questions.
What is the best thing about Stanford?
- I would say depth of the bench.
All of the people here are really impressive, and have
broad intellectual pursuits that allow conversations
like what we're having.
- What are you guys talking about?
(laughs)
- Things well outside our depth of knowledge. (laughs)
Project nonsense.
- I'd have to say all the people at Stanford.
They're all pretty amazing and super nice.
I mean, they all ask you how your day's been going,
what are you doing.
So they're really nice.
- The best thing about Stanford is
absolutely the people here.
I've met some of the most passionate people who are really
engaged with what they're doing,
and want to help the world in any way they can and,
that's provided for some really awesome communities as well.
- Definitely the quality education.
There's a lot of cool resources you can use for
good education and it's good to take advantage of it.
- I mean, one thing that you sort of have to appreciate is,
they have lots of resources.
Being a super wealthy university,
we have crazy opportunities that,
that other institutions that don't have the same amount
of money just don't have.
That's something that you really have to sort of admire.
- People tend to think that,
"Oh, everyone is like computer science-y in this area."
But, there's actually a huge diversity in terms of the
people, their personalities, what they're interested in.
And I think that's given me a really solid and diverse
friends group.
- I think the best thing for me is the combination
of sports and athletics.
I'm on the volleyball team here,
and being able to be on one of the best volleyball teams
in the country and get the education I am getting is
incredible and doesn't really happen at many other places.
- What's the worst thing about Stanford?
- I don't know,
I don't know if I'd levy this against Stanford specifically,
but I feel like all institutions,
we've selected for a very particular group of people,
all colleges select for people who are generally wealthy
or generally think in similar ways,
and its just sort of sad.
That's something that I would, I guess, say is bad.
But it's not Stanford specific, that's just all education.
- Sometimes, in California, they say it doesn't rain,
but it rains.
Honestly, that's the worst part.
- That's a lie. That's demonstrably false.
- And it gets really cold sometimes at night.
The weather, it gets weird.
- Worst thing is the bubble that it forms.
Sometimes, you can be so connected with other people on this
campus, and so connected to the things that are going on.
Because there's always so much happening,
and campus is very self-contained and,
Physically a bit of a distance to get off-campus and so,
because of that, you end getting trapped and doing
everything that you can do on this campus.
- Because there is too many opportunities
there's also a lot of groups and clubs here,
so because of the amount of opportunities,
people sometimes flake on the activities and stuff.
They're like, "Oh yeah, I'm part of this club."
But actually, they never go.
- What's the worst thing about Stanford?
- It's pretty spread out, so stuff to get around,
if you don't have a bike.
My bike recently just got stolen,
so I've been dealing with condolences.
- I'm sorry - No worries man.
- I'd say the housing because
it's pretty hard to get a good house
unless you get a medical draw,
and every year you have to move.
That's my roommate.
She's the best part of the housing, though.
- She's great, she's great. You're great!
And what do you tend to do on weekends, here?
- Go to brunch at Wilbur,
with my girl A.D.,
who cooks the best omelets ever.
- Shout out A.D.
- Typically in lab,
other than that, hang out and discuss with people.
- Usually, I hang out with friends.
Like right now, we're going to Coopa.
It's like a cafe, coffee shop.
- Hang out with friends,
catch up on work that we've been procrastinating on
for the entire week.
- For the whole quarter.
- (laughs) Totally, totally.
- On the weekends, I do improv.
I hang out on campus because its kind of a bubble here,
but occasionally, I'll go up to San Francisco.
- I belong to fraternity so,
just kind of hanging around there.
Usually something's going on.
- So I either chill with friends, and go around.
The parties are pretty fun,
or sometimes I just have a quiet night, and just stay home.
- Awesome. One more question.
What did you college application essay about?
- One of the main ones I wrote about was my height.
It was like, what challenges you the most,
so I wrote about that.
- I was raised Jewish, from a Jewish family,
but I wasn't really connected to Judaism or anything.
And then about four years ago,
I went to Germany for an international competition for
all Jewish athletes and it was about
three thousand Jewish athletes all marching into
the Berlin Olympic Stadium that was built in 1936 by Nazis,
and it was just a big statement for the Jewish people,
and it got me really connected to my culture,
and made me proud of where I came from,
so I wrote about that.
- I wrote one on what matters to me and why.
And I talked about education and
all children receiving education.
And I cannot remember the rest of my essay questions.
- Okay, all good. No worries.
- I wrote about the traffic problem, traffic jams
in Jakarta, where I come from.
I also wrote about predeterminism and
free will and all this stuff.
Yeah.
I wrote a bunch of other stuff.
- Oh my gosh, that was like four years ago,
so let me try and remember.
I went to a science and tech high school,
but did a lot of theater,
so I kind of talked about how I wanted to
combine communication and sciences.
- And you've been able to do that here?
- Totally,
Stanford's very interdisciplinary,
so they supported me in combining my different passions
and being able to work in different departments.
- Amazing, anything to add?
- Great weather!
(laughs)
- Yeah! Great weather!
Stanford! Alright, awesome.
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- Why are we still filming?