

Links
Useful Stanford stuff...
- SCPD Videos, watch your classes from home, at 1.7x speed! Probably the Best Thing Ever.
- Map of campus (also see the dining hall locations / hours)
- Marguerite, free campus shuttle schedule / map
- StanfordWho, the campus directory (also see the alumni database)
- Mailman, the Stanford mailing lists. See example list info, your lists, all lists (slow to load)
- StanfordYou, manage your SU Net account, including passwords and email aliases
- CourseRank, lots of class information, grade distributions, reviews (much better than Axess)
- Stanford Courses, class info/search, nice schedule/shopping UI (faster than CourseRank)
- CourtKeeper, Stanford tennis court reservation system (also see the gym and squash info)
- Stanford Business Cards, many people ask about this: just fill out form, submit, pick up and pay
- MS EE program handbook, also see the registrar handbook
- Past year's EE Quals, download them all here
- Stanford PhD Comics, all of the grad school wisdom you will ever need to know.
- Lyman Residence, the best place to live on campus since CroMem!
- Caterers near Stanford, places I've ordered large quantities of food from for student events
- Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders and CS309A, my favorite lecture series at Stanford
- Papers by Richard Hamming and Ivan Sutherland that any new PhD student should read
Technical Stanford Resources...
- VM Image of a lab machine, a super easy way to run Linux on your Windows computer
- Virtual Hosting, make a long Stanford URL short http://likethis.stanford.edu
- Website Templates, the easy way to make a Stanford-style homepage (more here)
- Workgroups, and .htaccess info for controlling access to your web content
- AFS Info, see web interface, Windows client, space usage, permissions
- IT Tools, MediaWiki is particularly useful for student groups (see installer info)
- Web Services Wiki, for lots more info!
Things I read every day...
Where I go for the latest in technology...
Useful websites...
- My favorite Google products: Search, Mail / Apps, Maps, Picasa / Photos, Voice, and Reader
- Reference: Wikipedia, Answers.com, Quora
- Shopping:
- Amazon (great selection, good prices, fast shipping)
- Froogle (nice comparison shopping by Google)
- eBay (bargain hunting ... if you're a good hunter ;)
- People: Facebook, LinkedIn
- Restaurants: Yelp (see my recommendations)
- Travel:
- Music: Pandora, probably one of the best places on the Internet!
Interesting reading and watching...
Some interesting people I've met at Stanford...
- Sonny Chan, a fellow Canadian and Stanford's ACM ICPC team coach
- Vinith Misra, a clever fellow EE
- Mike Young, living the start-up dream: Innova Materials
- Alex Stoll, photographer, pizza chef, and all around talented guy
- Jon Harris, a very smart fellow British Columbian
- Hai Nguyen, built our dorm's event planning app: funsoon
- Aman Kumar, a fellow Google intern
- Jon Lee, a mathematically-inclined fellow Canadian and architect of nasty ACM problems
- Yuankai Ge, a friendly guy from China, president of ACSSS
- Matthew Lew, one of the best guys in the EE department
- Ryan Louie, the friendly neighborhood doctor
- Willy Wu, a wise elder EE
- Greg Schwartz, Mr. CS TGIF
- Pi-Chuan Chang, a cooking club friend
- Robert Chen, possibly the best beer-pong player in EE (also check out his quals guide)
- Adam Wang, AAGSA core (publicity)
- Jingyu Cui, this fellow is brilliant.
- Reeve Ingle, one of the smartest guys in EE (also see his Bay Area excursions guide)
- Ann Charng, finally, a non-engineer on this list!
- Tracy Chou, probably the most well-connected person I know at Stanford
- Shiwei Song, entrepreneur!
- Peter McMahon, my South African Quals study buddy
- Sharon Zeng, a young entrepreneurial undergrad :)
- Daniel Horn, old-time CroMem and CS department friend
- Sharon Lin, my Lyman neighbor
- Cristina Pop, a quiet fellow Vancouverite
- Jonathan Ellingsworthorpleton (ya, that's really his name), my quals and travel buddy, smart guy
- Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta, Alphonso Labs co-founders and creators of the Pulse iPad app
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