Oh this has gotta be a good life

Today's rainy, so perfect to chill at home, listen to music, eat ice cream and make a new post :).
A few others and I actually went to Stanford yesterday! Stanford and Berkeley are old rivals, so of course I needed to have a look at it.
Standford is located in Palo Alto, it's about a one hour drive away from Berkeley. As soon as you walk into Palo Alto, you can alrady tell that this city is rich: Expensive cars, beautiful houses, elegant stores,... Unlike UC Berkeley, Stanford is a little further away from downtown. Almost every student lives on campus (I really don't know how they manage the grocery shopping without a car...). Everything in Stanford is perfect (the grass, the buildings, the plants; it is all perfectly acurate)... maybe almost too perfect. Nervetheless the architecture is extremely beautiful, have a look for yourself:That was about the only sign we found...

This is how it looks almost everywhere.

Easy to get lost...
I actually wore a red coat (that's Stanfords colour...) next time Iwill be going there definitely in a Berkeley hoodie.
So different from Cal...
Did you know that Stanfords mascot is a tree??? I mean, come on, how boring is that? Go Bears!

We had food at the cheese cake factory.


Of course I had to get one after our dinner. This is a $7.99 cheesecake and worth every penny.

Well, we had lots of fun at Stanford and decided we might check out the student partys over here every other week. It is so different from Berkeley.


A few of you guys were asking me about the university and what I exactly will be doing there. Well, I am a international student researcher. So on the one hand I will counduct research (in the field of social psychology), and on the other hand attend a few classes. It is so crazy to finally meet the Professors I have been writing papers on, when I was in Cologne. I.e. Prof. Christina Maslach. I wrote a paper on burnout (and the Maslach Burnout Inventory) last semester and she pretty much investigated it all. And now I will be actually taking one if her classes.
Oh another thing, I don't know if you know this, but students call UC Berkeley "Cal" (that's basically why a named this blog "cal blog").
You were also asking about the food... it is all fine. Some of the best restaurants in the US are actually located in Berkeley. And here are tons of asian and french places. I will post some pictures of my food the next time.

That's pretty much it for today. Have a great night everyone :)