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Editor’s Choice
Winter 2025
Essays
When I was a senior, I took Sand Hill Road all the way home to Missouri.
By Anne Sutton Canfield
On leaving a big life decision up to chance.
by Mary Poindexter McLaughlin
30 years after stumbling through a lost academic quarter, I officially graduated from Stanford University.
by Matt Rodgers
Something about ‘having work done’ makes us uncomfortable. It shouldn’t.
by Joshua Korman
I'd lie down in traffic for my Cardinal cap. Or would I?
by Wayne Raffesberger
We worked for the New York Times in Moscow during the Gorbachev era. We look forward to a day when information flows freely in Russia again.
by Philip Taubman and Felicity Barringer
“Red means air raid warning. Green means my family is back online.” How it feels to be a Stanford student from Ukraine right now.
by Anastasiia Malenko
Why we should never stop attempting hard things.
by Nestor Walters
The ramps are calling, and I must go.
by Nathaniel Eisen
One man of letters remembers another.
by Daniel A. Olivas
During the pandemic, a video game offers more than simple fun.
by Sam Kelly
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