Dropped my Girl @ STANFORD this weekend!

[FirstLight]

So this weekend was the big drop off for the special summer session, she made it!

(ugh, what a drive from Lake Tahoe to Oakland then to PaloAlto & back yesterday and then home today! - get to do it all again NEXT weekend!!)

The 24-hour update is that the cafeteria food sucks and it's hot and smelly in the dorms, very far to walk between buildings, and she is starting a petition/protest to get them to tun the AC on in the classrooms...
That's my girl!

She says "seriously, 225 kids paid $5000 each to be here, and they are telling us they can't do it cuz it COSTS too much?"

Welcome to law and govt baby

[RockRaven]

1. I can tell you, with first-hand knowledge, that there's no excuse for classrooms to be overheated

on a cost basis... except piss-poor design/planning.

Even in mid-July, it is possible to keep a building in Palo Alto, even large ones, completely comfortable without AC -- but it requires a) forethought/planning and b) the tolerance of the inhabitants for the same.

This weekend the temps were highs in the high-70s, lows in the high-50s. Adequately ventilate a building in the evening/overnight, button it up starting mid-morning, and generally you're fine even in mid-afternoon when external temps are at their peak...

But if you a) design a building to rely entirely on forced conditioned air with no external air exchange AND b) turn it off over the summer, then no duh are you gonna make people intolerably uncomfortable over the summer.

BTW Stanford building/property management have a shitty reputation in the local community for myriad reasons...

[FirstLight]

5. Thank you for the info!

I sent her this thread so she could see your reply. It's supposedly an underground classroom so there are no windows.
But they could still open up the bldg in the early hours to get it aired out.... 225 students in a room like that sounds awful!


She's also a soft country girl, not used to the BIGNESS of it all...her feet are killing her from walking all over because all the buildings are so far away. I'm gonna send her some insoles and carwe package tonight fed ex!
Poor baby

Her "back is broken" from the hard beds in the dorm...she didn't eat last night because she was too tired to walk to the cafeteria...I'm guessing she will call me crying in about another 24 hours...

Gotta get used to the big world, chicka!

[Laffy Kat]

2. She sounds like a go-getter!

You must be proud. Hope they cool the place off. That is not acceptable.

[TeamPooka]

3. Faint from heat, file lawsuit, free tuition for next four years... just saying....

[FirstLight]

6. right...?

good thinkning!

[More_Cowbell]

4. It's cooling off this week!

I'm across the bay from her.

Congratulations!

[FirstLight]

7. cool....

I'm staying with a friend in Oakland for the weekend, then had to drive back up the mountain for work this week...I'm beat!


...Don't know how people drive so much down there...can't believe that I used to live there and live like that....

[shanti]

11. Congrats to your daughter!

I'm in Sac and hate the Bay Area traffic so bad, I haven't been over the "new" Bay Bridge, it's been so long. Can't imagine having to make that trip from Tahoe and back, kudos!

[FirstLight]

8. well this mmorning her text was "kill me now"

poor thing, she's not used to walking 5 miles a day!

I figure I'll get a tearful call by tomorrow...


Gonna send her a care package fed-ex to try and make her feel better... maybe some insoles and chocolate

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. "Welcome to law and govt baby"

Actually, welcome to what you get with a for-profit education company. That profit isn't going to make itself!

[FirstLight]

10. ya...I should have said "welcome to COLLEGE"

...in general, all of it is for profit now...

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. Stanford is a private nonprofit university.

[FirstLight]

13. ya, but the program is definitely for-profit...then again,

She's getting college credits, experience, and something interesting for her resume & transcripts.

As much as we were bowled over for the amount, as a family we decided it was worth it for this amazing girl. She has known she wants to go into law/public policy since she was in 8th grade...wants to run for senate...so I am being as ultra supportive as possible!