Train your brain to gain.
Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too
My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.
The teacher is a catalyst to convert information from a high energy state (list of facts) to a low energy state (visual concept associated with known concepts).
You have to make your own condensed notes. You learn from MAKING them. A lot of thinking goes into deciding what to include and exclude. You develop your own system of abbreviations and memory methods for the information.
Ambient sounds, especially with words, occupy about 5-10% of your intellectual bandwidth. By wearing ear protectors, you acoustically isolate yourself. This freed up bandwidth can now be focused on the desired task. It's a great deal. Just put on som...
I'm gonna take all my sadness, frustration, anger and energy and channel it into becoming the best possible student. I am going to become a learning machine... Go ahead, go to all your parties. Go ahead and go home to your families and friends every ...
If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.
My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.
I had a very unusual childhood in that I grew up on the Stanford campus and I never moved.
I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell.
Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.
The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
I was lucky enough at Stanford to have Vic Fangio as the defensive coordinator for a year, and then Jason Tarver.
At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them.
When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.
Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.
I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.