"Amici Miei"



Italian Stanford 
Students Association

Welcome to the home page of Amici Miei - Italian Stanford Students Association. Our association has the mission to help new or prospective Italian Students to get aquainted with Stanford University, and t o promote italian culture an traditions in our university.
As a starting point, you may want to read the national hymn Fratelli d'Italia by Goffredo Mameli. Almost nobody knows it from the beginning to the end. But, if you don't like to seem a ignorant semi-moron when the national soccer t eam is playing, you'd better know it. 

FRIENDS

We do not restrict membership to italians. Any student/researcher involved with Stanford and interested in Italy, its beauty and its inherent chaos is welcome in the association.
For any information about the group, you may want to contact the President (not Scalfaro): Antonino Del Gatto or the stupendous treasurer Fabrizio Castellucci. 

ACTIVITIES

Several events have been proposed or planned for the next academic year. Here is list just a tentative list:

Of course, any suggestions are welcome. 
ITALY ON THE WEB

Here are a few pointers to Italy. They should be useful for foreign students interested in italian life and society.

 
SURVIVING IN STANFORD

Here is a list of useful resources for those who don't know where to eat a decent pizza, or where to buy groceries at a walk distance from campus. 

APPLYING AT STANFORD

So you want to be a Stanford student... If you are Web-literate, you probably have already reached the page of the department you are interested in. Other than the web, there is another (maybe more useful) source of infor mation about your department: the Peterson's Guides to graduate study. They are a number of volumes (six or seven) released year, containing addresses, tuitions, contact points, admission ratios etc. Of course they are useful only for prospective < b>graduate students. It is available for consultancy at the Centro per gli scambi culturali Italia-Usa, but they may be even available in your university.
If you are a doctoral student or a professor in Italy, the procedure to follow is easier: get in touch with the department and ask for an invitation letter (things may go not that smooth).

On the Peterson guides you'll find also some useful suggestions about applying: how to choose a university, the timing etc. It is useful to briefly summarize them and adapt them to the italian case.