R&R

Coming out of a tournament by continuing a winning streak (knock on wood!) of 15-0, we girls were lucky enough to get TWO DAYS of a little rest and relaxation. But, like many of my other teammates, I was at a loss as to how to fill up my enormous amounts of free time. So, what exactly IS a day in the life of a Stanford Water Polo player…without water polo…like?

After waking up after sunrise (for once) on Monday morning, I was in such a fantastic mood that even going to chemistry class couldn’t bring me down! From there, I met up with fellow teammate Kate Baldoni for our favorite lunchtime meal—the famous Southwestern Salad from Tressider. I’m pretty sure we both finished our gigantic, overflowing meals in record time. Yum! While we ate, we watched the masses congregate in front of Dinkelspiel Auditorium for the chance to get to see James Franco, fresh from the Oscars, here at Stanford talking about his new short film. Check out the picture below!!

After our lunch date and a quick stop by the bookstore, I headed back to class where I met up with Melissa. When class ended, it seemed only natural to do what we would have done any other day of the week at this time—head to the pool! Kate met up with us on our way over, and seeing as Mel didn’t ride her bike (…where is that thing, anyway? ) we caravanned to Avery, and this time instead of another intense work out, we treated ourselves to a nice relaxing and well deserved jacuzzi session.

Now, however much we all would have enjoyed continuing to relax, it is finals week in a few days! Time to do some work. So what do we do? Head to my all time favorite study spot—The Bender Room in Green Library. The view overlooking Stanford Campus is absolutely amazing. Much to our surprise, some of our teammates were already there— and more kept coming! Kaitlyn will give you the details on that later.

With a few hours gone, it was time to get some food again. A little unknown fact about Kate and me is that some would say we have recently become addicted to white chocolate, and Stern Dining always delivers. To our disappointment, however, there were no white chocolate chips to be found inside the dining hall—but Kate wouldn’t take no for an answer! We walked up to one of the extremely helpful cooks, and asked if we could trouble them for some white chocolate chips, expecting we would get a small handful each, at most. Instead, the cook walks out with a Venti-sized Starbuck’s cup filled almost to the top of our weakness. We immediately looked at each other, and back at the cup. Our love of Stern Dining had officially been reaffirmed.

All in all, the day was a success…now it’s back to the grind!