They’ve hauled their suitcases up three flights of stairs, met their roommates, and started their classes. Parents have bid farewell, and now it’s time for students to blaze their trail. Two new books intend to help.
You Got In! Now What? 100 Insights into Finding Your Best Life in College by James Hamilton, a professor of communication and Stanford’s vice provost for undergraduate education, is a frosh-friendly compass for navigating what’s next. Its short, standalone entries won’t add to the overwhelm. Notes from the Farm: Stanford Stories on Finding Your Way offers 51 missives by students and recent grads and is aimed at members of the Class of ’29 (and obscured from the rest of us by way of minuscule font size). Each entry aims to either foster a sense of belonging or convey campus traditions.
From either vantage point, the books’ message is singular: You belong here—go make the most of it.
Summer Moore Batte, ’99, is the editor of Stanfordmag.org. Email her at summerm@stanford.edu.
