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Sharis Hsu

Sharis Hsu '28 is the Vol. 269-270 Managing Editor of The Grind and a semi-active columnist! She can be heard laughing at The Daily House, drinking black coffee or learning more about neuroscience.
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"There is a version of me now, fractured across the timelines and the three continents that I will touch," Hsu writes. (Photo: SHARIS HSU/The Stanford Daily)

Dispatches From India: Life-defining mistakes

Sharis Hsu
  •  
Sept. 30
The Grind
The strange yet sentimental items that come to Stanford with us every year. (SHARIS HSU/The Stanford Daily)

Asking Stanford: What’s the most unusual item you bring to campus during move-in?

Kaylee Chan, Lily Zou, Ribka Desta and Sharis Hsu
  •  
Sept. 28
Magazine
Gifts, guilt and the illusion of generosity. (Graphic: REBECCA BYERS/The Stanford Daily)

Nothing, please

Sharis Hsu
  •  
June 7
The Grind
A graphic of a homeless man with a tray of food, saying "learning to beg"

Learning To Beg: God always provides

Sharis Hsu
  •  
May 7
The Grind
Daily staffers name the apps they rely on. (Courtesy of Pexels.com)

Asking Stanford: What is one app you can’t live without?

Ribka Desta, Kaylee Chan, Megan D'Souza, Lily Zou, Sharis Hsu and Alaina Zhang
  •  
April 26
The Grind
A shelf of canned and dry food for the homeless.

Learning to Beg: Almost helping

Sharis Hsu
  •  
April 20
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A shelf of canned and dry food for the homeless.

Learning to Beg: Saying hello

Sharis Hsu
  •  
April 15
The Grind
Sororities at Cowell Cluster

So long, sisters

Sharis Hsu
  •  
March 30
The Grind
The Computing and Data Science Building (CoDa) in the day time

Asking Stanford: What is the best building on campus?

Alaina Zhang, Angikar Ghosal, Anisha Pandey, Daniel Xu, Lily Zou, Megan D'Souza, Sebastian Strawser and Sharis Hsu
  •  
March 4
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(PHOTO: KAILANI AURORA PUTRI WEBB/The Stanford Daily)

Asking Stanford: What is one item on your bucket list?

Daniel Xu, Melita D’Souza, Alaina Zhang, Megan D'Souza, Kaylee Chan and Sharis Hsu
  •  
Jan. 29
The Grind
“The year is 2026. Grandpa, you will never see it,” Hsu confesses. (Photo: SHARIS HSU/The Stanford Daily)

Deferring grief

Sharis Hsu
  •  
Jan. 14
The Grind
A new year brings new opportunities for self-improvement. (Graphic: KAYLEE CHAN/The Stanford Daily)

Asking Stanford: What are your resolutions for 2026?

Melita D’Souza, Kaylee Chan, Megan D'Souza, Sharis Hsu, Iris Hwang and Lily Zou
  •  
Jan. 11
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Stanford students share memories from past football games. (Graphic: KAYLEE CHAN/The Stanford Daily)

Asking Stanford: Share a game day memory

Ishan Mehta, Sonnet Xu, Michael Malone, Iris Hwang, Sharis Hsu, Odin Farkas, Joanne dePierre, Dhruv Naik, Zachary Ewing and Hoang Nguyen
  •  
Nov. 19
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"I certainly didn’t think we would stay in touch eight, nine years down the road. But here we are," Hsu reflects. (Courtesy of Litong Deng)

Seeing Berkeley across the Bay

Sharis Hsu
  •  
Nov. 18
Culture
A person in a green dinosaur costume stands next to a ghost, turning away from a "job application" costume while saying "Scariest costume I've seen tonight."

The Daily’s best Halloween costumes

Emerson Prentice, Bella Kim, Sharis Hsu, Kelly Wang, Jennifer Xin-Tsu Lin Levine, Aiden Fel and Amelia Overstreet
  •  
Nov. 5
Culture
Pocky, mochi donuts, grapes and pomegranates line an orange backdrop with black text reading "Midterm Snack Break!"

The study snacks that fuel The Daily

Chloe Shannon Wong, Dan Kubota, Tanya Rastogi, Sharis Hsu and Emerson Prentice
  •  
Nov. 5
The Grind
Some students find rain at Stanford comforting. Others, not so much. (Courtesy of Unsplash)

Asking Stanford: How does rain feel at Stanford?

Daniel Xu, Megan D'Souza, Joanne dePierre, Sharis Hsu, Sebastian Strawser and Grace Liang
  •  
Oct. 16
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Arches and Hoover Tower visible at dusk

Asking Stanford: What is one discovery you’re taking into the school year?

Sonnet Xu, Kaylee Chan, Allie Skalnik and Sharis Hsu
  •  
Oct. 2
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(Graphic: Michelle Fu/THE STANFORD DAILY)

To touch death

Sharis Hsu
  •  
May 8, 2025
The Grind
orange cartoon of a car hitting a bike

Quarter-Life Crisis: Silly, strange and inevitable

Sharis Hsu
  •  
March 13, 2025
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