The main campus really does have beautiful and unique architecture with a Spanish flavor and some Romanesque elements.
Beautiful colonnades.
Hoover Observation Tower, which I still need to visit the top.
Even their "underground system" has decorative elements to the manhole covers- and don't worry- its "sanitary"
I did learn a few things about Stanford. Stanford was founded in honor of the only son of the Stanford family who died as a teenager. There are over 8,000 students (graduate and undergraduate) and just as many bikes since the campus is so huge. Initially, tuition used to be FREE for the first few years the university was open (don't you wish you could have gotten in on that!) In front of Memorial Church are several metal inlays lining the corridor of columns each with a different number on them like "90". I found out that underneath each of these columns is a time capsule from the graduating class of that year. Disturbingly, inside one of the time capsules is a slice of pizza. Gross! I would definitely NOT want to open that up- supposedly, this same slice was kept by a girl for four years, through her whole career at Stanford, and that was why it was so "important" to be placed inside the time capsule.
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sorry you had a bad tour... but i will take you to the top of hoover tower! i get to go for free! you can be my sister for the day and go for free too :)
What a beautiful school! I've never been but it looks fantastic.
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