# My Stanford Story Index

**Source**: https://advising.stanford.edu/current-students/my-stanford-story/index
**Parent**: https://advising.stanford.edu/

## Exploring and Getting the Most Out of Stanford

- [Create Your Stanford Tapestry](/current-students/my-stanford-story/apetty) (Alice Petty, Associate Dean for Residential Academic Advising)
- [Experiences Outside of the Classroom](/current-students/my-stanford-story/bpowell) (Brandon Powell, Class of 2014)
- [How Stanford Brought Me To Italy](/current-students/my-stanford-story/lmondavi) (Lucio Mondavi, Class of 2015)
- [If You Can't Find Your Niche at Stanford, Go and Build it](/current-students/my-stanford-story/aluong "If you can't find your niche at Stanford, go and build it") (An Luong, Class of 2015)
-  (Tommy Tobin, Class of 2010)
- [Recovering from Academic Setbacks](/current-students/my-stanford-story/cfleming) (Chris Fleming, Class of 2017)
- [Research Gave Meaning to My Undergraduate Years](/current-students/my-stanford-story/tdavies) (Todd Davies, Lecturer and Associate Director of Symbolic Systems)
- [Research Out of Left Field](/current-students/my-stanford-story/lselden) (Lauren Selden, Class of 2023)
- [Stories Courts Tell: Human rights minor reflects on pathway to honors thesis](/current-students/my-stanford-story/autrata "Stories Courts Tell: Human rights minor reflects on pathway to honors thesis (Alina Utrata, '17)") (Alina Utrata, Class of 2017)
- [Talk to Your Advisor](/current-students/my-stanford-story/mstevenson) (Melissa Stevenson, Lead Academic Advising Director)
- [Taking a Course Outside My Field of Study](/current-students/my-stanford-story/pcrowley-outside) (Patrick Crowley, Class of 2018)
- [Taking a Course Outside My Field of Study](/current-students/my-stanford-story/akim) (Alvin Kim, Class of 2017)
-  (Imee Diego Dubose, Administrative Associate, Knight-Hennessy Scholars)
- [To Be of Greater Service](/current-students/my-stanford-story/rayyagari "To Be Of Greater Service") (Raga Ayyagari, Class of 2017)
- [What Are Office Hours? Why Go?](/current-students/my-stanford-story/astaveley) (Alice Stavely, Lecturer in English)
- [Why Students Should Come to Office Hours](/current-students/my-stanford-story/jhamilton) (James Hamilton, Hearst Professor of Communication)

## First Year Courses and Reflections

- [Against Wind and Tide](https://advising.stanford.edu/current-students/my-stanford-story/mmendezpons-againstwindandtide) (Mirelys Mendez-Pons, Class of 2025)
- [The Best Life Coach: Theater](https://advising.stanford.edu/current-students/my-stanford-story/jhamad-theater) (Jennifer Lauren Hamad, Class of 2025)
- [My Favorite Course Freshman Year](/current-students/my-stanford-story/cmeister-course "My Favorite Course Freshman Year: Clara Meister") (Clara Meister, Class of 2017)
- [My Favorite Course Freshman Year](/current-students/my-stanford-story/ssturzenegger-course "My Favorite Course Freshman Year: Selby Sturzenegger") (Selby Sturzenegger, Class of 2018)
-  (Amber Levine, Class of 2018)
-  (Gloria Chua, Class of 2017)
-  (Nikki Tran, Class of 2018)
-  (Tori Testa, Class of 2018)
-  (Diego Hernandez, Class of 2017)
-  (Grace Klein, Class of 2018)
-  (Toamatapu Lohe, Class of 2016)
-  (Victoria White, Class of 2018)
-  (Arnelle Ansong, Class of 2018)
-  (Gabby Levikow, Class of 2018)
-  (Gianna Nino, Class of 2018)
- [My Student Athlete Story](/current-students/my-stanford-story/afischer "My Student Athlete Story: Aria Fischer") (Aria Fischer, Class of 2021)
- [Why I Teach an Introsem](/current-students/my-stanford-story/bpatenaude "Why I Teach an Introsem: Bert Patenaude") (Bert Patenaude, Lecturer in History and International Relations)
- [Why I Teach an Introsem](/current-students/my-stanford-story/jbeinin "Why I Teach an Introsem: Joel Beinin") (Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History)
- [Why I Teach an Introsem](/current-students/my-stanford-story/mkay "Why I Teach an Introsem: Martin Kay") (Martin Kay, Professor of Linguistics)

## FLI at Stanford

- [Finding Out I Belong Here](https://advising.stanford.edu/current-students/my-stanford-story/finding-out-i-belong-here) (Nathalie Sarai Garcia, Class of 2024)
- [Making a Difference](https://advising.stanford.edu/current-students/my-stanford-story/rlapointe-makingadifference) (Rodolph Lapointe, Class of 2023)
- [Embrace the Uncertainty, Follow your Curiosity](/current-students/my-stanford-story/lnguyen) (Linda Nguyen, Class of 2016)
-  (Gianna Nino, Class of 2018)
- [My Major is Not My Career](/current-students/my-stanford-story/drayford "My Major is Not My Career: Dontae Rayford") (Dontae Rayford, Class of 2007)
- [My Major is Not My Career](/current-students/my-stanford-story/gbeale "My Major is Not My Career: Greg Beale") (Greg Beale, Class of 1969)
-  (Ian Macato, Class of 2019)

## Frosh Reflections

- [Advice to my Frosh Self](/current-students/my-stanford-story/khirota "Advice to My Frosh Self") (Kimiko Hirota, Class of 2020)
-  (Sienna White, Class of 2019)
- [First Year Challenges](/current-students/my-stanford-story/lbernabe) (Luis Bernabe, Class of 2017)
- [Flooded Washing Machines & Great Conversations: Capturing the Spirit of Stanford](/current-students/my-stanford-story/jbosetti "Flooded Washing Machines & Great Conversations: Capturing the Spirit of Stanford") (Joe Bosetti, Class of 2020)
- [How I Became The Parable](/current-students/my-stanford-story/swhite-parable) (Sienna White, Class of 2019)
- [Reflecting on Freshman Year](/current-students/my-stanford-story/hpayne) (Hayden Payne, Class of 2019)
-  (Hannah Llorin, Class of 2019)
-  (Cindy Ng, Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Asian American Activities Center)
- [Unpacking My Suitcase](/current-students/my-stanford-story/apasupathy) (Amit Pasupathy, Class of 2019)
- [What I Wish I Had Known as a First-Year Student](/current-students/my-stanford-story/klum) (Karen Lum, Class of 2011)

## I Am Stanford

- [I Am Stanford](https://advising.stanford.edu/current-students/my-stanford-story/mmettias-iamstanford) (Matthew Mettias, Class of 2023)
- [I Am Stanford](https://advising.stanford.edu/current-students/my-stanford-story/zbarley-iamstanford) (Zoe Barley, Class of 2023)
-  (Nico Lozano-Landinez, Class of 2018)
-  (Rosie La Puma, Class of 2017)
-  (Selby Sturzenegger, Class of 2018)
- [To My Fellow Stanfordians](/current-students/my-stanford-story/psaffari) (Persiana Saffari, Class of 2019)
- [What Surprised Me Most About Stanford](/current-students/my-stanford-story/nlozano-surprised) (Nico Lozano-Landinez, Class of 2018)
- [Why I Love Undergraduate Advising](/current-students/my-stanford-story/lnewman) (Louis Newman, former Director of Academic Advising)
-  (Remy Gordon, Class of 2020)

## Majors and Major Decisions

- [My CS Story: How I learned my Path Wasn’t Set](https://advising.stanford.edu/current-students/my-stanford-story/path-not-set) (Kate Elizabeth Stanton Baker, Class of 2025)
-  (Austin Bargmann, Class of 2019)
-  (Clara Meister, Class of 2017)
-  (Rosie La Puma, Class of 2017)
-  (Isaiah Drummond, Class of 2020)
- [How I Chose Aero/Astro](/current-students/my-stanford-story/icolobong) (Isaiah Colobong, Class of 2023)
-  (Jonathan Levin, Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business)
- [Planning, But Not Paining](/current-students/my-stanford-story/cgao) (Courtney Gao, Class of 2020)
- [Why I Chose the MCS Major](/current-students/my-stanford-story/zrobinson) (Zach Robinson, Class of 2016)
- [Why I Chose Theater Instead of Science](/current-students/my-stanford-story/jcasamajor) (Jane Casamajor, Production Manager in Theater and Performance Studies)
- [Why I'm An Urban Studies Major](/current-students/my-stanford-story/svolavong) (Sean Volavong, Class of 2019)

## Stanford Identities and Finding Communities

- [Welcome to Gaeities](https://advising.stanford.edu/current-students/my-stanford-story/slewis-gaieties) (Sarah Lewis, Class of 2024)
- [My Experience as a Non-Resident Alien](/current-students/my-stanford-story/rhoong) (Ruru Hoong, Class of 2019)
- [My Student Athlete Story](/current-students/my-stanford-story/mlord "My Student Athlete Story: Melissa Lord") (Melissa Lord, Class of 2019)
- [My Student Athlete Story](/current-students/my-stanford-story/mkalinowski "My Student Athlete Story: Meredith Kalinowski") (Meredith Kalinowski, Class of 2015)
- [Rediscovering Myself in College](/current-students/my-stanford-story/ssturzenegger-rediscovering) (Selby Sturzenegger, Class of 2018)

## Wellness Stories

-  (Julia Raven, Class of 2018)
- [My Unexpected Stanford Community](/current-students/my-stanford-story/kfrimet) (Kate Frimet, Class of 2022)

## Why I Teach

- [Why I Teach Research Methods](https://advising.stanford.edu/current-students/my-stanford-story/wheelerk-whyiteach) (Katrin Wheeler, Student Services Manager, Department of Communications)
- [From Namaste to Nirvana](/current-students/my-stanford-story/staneja) (Sonia Taneja, Lecturer in Hindi)
- [How I Came to Love Teaching Microeconomic Theory](/current-students/my-stanford-story/cmakler) (Chris Makler, Lecturer in Economics)
- [Teaching is Personal](/current-students/my-stanford-story/jbarton) (John Barton, Director of the Architectural Design Program)
- [Why I Teach Archaeology](/current-students/my-stanford-story/kseetah) (Krish Seetah, Assistant Professor of Anthropology)
- [Why I Teach California Policy & Politics](/current-students/my-stanford-story/dcrane "Why I Teach California Policy & Politics") (David Crane, Lecturer in Public Policy)
-  (Jonathan Gienapp, Assistant Professor of History)
- [Why I Teach the Literature of Adoption](/current-students/my-stanford-story/pphelan) (Peggy Phelan, Ann O'Day Maples Professor in the Arts and Professor of English)
- [Why I Teach and Play the Harp](/current-students/my-stanford-story/mchauvel) (Marjorie Chauvel, Lecturer in Music)
- [Why I Teach Theatre and Performance Studies](/current-students/my-stanford-story/jross) (Janice Ross, Professor (Teaching) of Theater and Performance Studies)
- [Why I Teach Underclassmen](/current-students/my-stanford-story/bhoxby) (Blair Hoxby, Associate Professor of English)
- [Why I Teach Using "Big Data" to Solve Social Problems](/current-students/my-stanford-story/rchetty "Why I Teach Using \"Big Data\" to Solve Social Problems") (Raj Chetty, Professor of Economics)
- [Why We Teach Thinking Matters](/current-students/my-stanford-story/coztanzo-verghese) (Cari Costanzo, Ph.D Anthropology & Abraham Verghese, M.D.)

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