What I Did in Paris …
Cuurent Student Advisors
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Parilee Edison — Paris, Autumn 2006-07. Beijing, Spring 2006-07. | |
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| MAJOR: International Relations MINOR: Modern Languages (French, Chinese) |
ADVISOR: Michael Tomz | |
ACADEMIC INTERESTS : International Development and International Business |
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When I disembarked from the train in Paris in the chaos of the Gare de Nord, my first thought was “what have I gotten myself into?” Because most of my French language knowledge came from high school, I barely knew any other Stanford students on the trip, and I was very worried that my language skills wouldn’t be up to par. Within a matter of days, however, I realized that I had made one of the best decisions of my life! Read full profile » |
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Joslyn Massengale — Winter 2006-07 | |
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| MAJOR: International Relations | ||
| ...I took every opportunity to see Paris. I felt so fortunate to even be in the city, so I visited dozens of museums, churches, and monuments with a friend on our day off from school. Even in class our professors encouraged us to explore Paris and apply the themes from class to what we saw outside. We went to movies, plays, operas, and museums as a class. Read full profile » | ||
Past Student Advisors
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Misan Riwane — Fall 2005 & Oxford Seminar, Winter 2006 | |
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| MAJOR: Economics | ADVISOR: Jon Levin | |
| One of the highlights of my time in Paris would have to be the Bing trip to see La Bohème at the Bastille Opera. Although it was in Italian, which required us to read subtitles on a screen above the stage, the love story of Rodolfo and his Mimi was not lost in translation.… Read full profile » | ||
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Timothy Wood — Winter & Spring 2006 | |
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| MAJOR: International Relations | ADVISOR: Jeremy Weinstein | |
| Study abroad in Paris allowed for an entirely new cultural context that not only contrasted and contributed to the Stanford experience, but also gave this lifetime Californian some fundamental life experience that altered perspective on more than just Stanford…Read full profile » | ||
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Morgan Springer — Autumn 2004-2005 | |
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| MAJOR: Symbolic Systems (Cognitive Sciences); previously Biology | ADVISORS: Tom Wasow & Sue McConnell | |
| ACADEMIC INTERESTS: Linguistics, Psychology, Design, and pretty much anything else if it doesn’t involve math | INTERNSHIP: Observational internship in Paris with Sophie Romatet, a neurologist | |
| One question that I got fairly often while in Paris was whether or not I had been there before. The answer was in fact yes, I had been for about a week with my family while in high school. That week, despite all of the tourism, despite the incomprehensible language (I took Spanish in high school) had been enough to convince me that I would have to go back… Read full profile » | ||
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Vivian Crockett — Winter & Spring 2004-2005 | |
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| MAJOR: Art History | ADVISOR: Pamela Lee | |
| ACADEMIC INTERESTS: European Modernism, Postwar American Art, Gender Theory | INTERNSHIP: Research Assistant, Musée d'Orsay, Winter and Spring 2005 | |
| I would do research at the Bibliotheque Kandinsky, the Art library on the fourth floor of the Pompidou that boasts an amazing view of the city, and then join a friend for a falafel lunch break in the nearby Marais… Read full profile » | ||