Stanford - In & Out Burger

Today we were able to visit Stanford University for a walking tour of the beautiful campus. The campus was lined with 166 palm trees when you drove down Palm Drive (the main road to campus). It was a perfect 65 degrees out so it was ideal weather to stroll around the large campus. 

We arrived at the main quad and our enthusiastic tour guide Collin spoke about the history of the campus. He told us about five tenants the campus had created when it was first established the campus in 1885. The tenants went as followed:

1. The campus would always be coed

2. Stanford would be secretarial based campus (even thou there's a huge church on campus!) 

3. Stanford would never turned someone away based on race, ethnicity, culture etc

4. Stanford will never sell their land (hence why they lease to VMware)

5. Stanford will be tuition free (in 1920 they began charging students $140- caused riots!)

After our long walk around the campus we decided to go out for lunch and the well known burger joint of California; In and Out burger. I ordered off the secret menu and got a 3x3 and cheesy fries. Wow how delicious it was! I mean being from New England  I will always be in favor of Five Guys but I have to say In and Out was a close match. 

After lunch we browsed around the Computer History Museum. We were able to sit inside a computer driven car, browse the earth from a satellite with Googles newest version of its Google Earth Program where you had to use a toggle to guide yourself across the map. I think my favorite part of today was buying a sweatshirt from Stanford's bookstore so I could have a little keepsake from the perfect college to attend if you wanted to go to big school with good weather year round.

Until next time,

Kaitlyn