I remember driving down Palm Drive thinking, ‘Oh, my god. This is what college looks like. This is the next step.’
I will never forget my first time seeing the magnificent vista of the Quad. I looked out the window, and it looked like a place that would inspire me to dream.
And that was really my first impression of Stanford. It was a place that always told me that I could do things, even when I felt like I couldn’t.
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