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The Grind
"My time in Chengdu was the only time I’ve ever been truly happy in life," admits Xu. (Photo: HANBO XU/The Stanford Daily)

Guò Qiáo

Hanbo Xu
  •  
May 14
Reads
D.A. Powell glances up from a packet of poems to speak to the audience from behind the podium at Stanford Faculty Club, near a table with flowers and a glass of water.

Mohr Visiting Poet D.A. Powell’s reading offers intimate look at nature and desire 

Grace Liang
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May 3
Magazine
Our issue, titled “Natural Language Processing,” is about AI, but it is also about how we, as humans, process our own natural language: how the words we use alter the ways we see each other and the world around us. (Graphic: TOBY SHIAO/The Stanford Daily)

Vol. 268 Magazine | Natural Language Processing

Charlotte Cao and Callia Peterson
  •  
March 13
The Grind
A graphic of the Oval.

Senior Scaries: 100 days to graduation

Erin Ye
  •  
March 12
Magazine
Our issue, titled “Natural Language Processing,” is about AI, but it is also about how we, as humans, process our own natural language: how the words we use alter the ways we see each other and the world around us. (Graphic: TOBY SHIAO/The Stanford Daily)

Natural Language Processing PDF

Charlotte Cao and Callia Peterson
  •  
March 9
Magazine
A son’s letter to his father with Alzheimer’s. (Graphic: CHINGYOUNG SHAO/The Stanford Daily)

Dear 아빠

Joshua Kim
  •  
March 9
Magazine
“It's not how you say it. It’s what you say.” We must shift the educational zeitgeist and reconstruct the way we define intellect. (Graphic: TOBY SHIAO/The Stanford Daily)

It’s not what you say; it’s how you say it. 

Ariana Lee
  •  
March 8
The Grind
Japanese characters

Two steps forward and one step back: My Japanese language learning journey 

Sasha Wang
  •  
Feb. 17
The Grind
"These last few years of my life here, I have seen all the ways in which I have evolved, and yet when I return home, I am reminded only of what I seem to have lost." (Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons)

On losing language

Angelina Ambrosiou
  •  
Feb. 4
The Grind
A stack of books on a red chair

On the poverty of names

Sofia Baroudi
  •  
Feb. 1
Opinions
Two male-presenting people speaking in different languages, one speaking in Japanese and the other speaking in French

From the Community | Why study a foreign language?

From the Community
  •  
Sept. 25
The Grind
"Have passion, love, courage and enthusiasm for both the language and the process of learning it," Argento writes. (Photo: DANIEL ARGENTO/The Stanford Daily)

The language learning experience

Daniel Argento
  •  
June 2
University
Rally attendees group around White Plaza holding signs and blue and yellow Ukrainian flags.

Students rally for Ukraine three years after full-scale invasion

Sofia Williams
  •  
Feb. 25, 2025
Columnists
In the wake of the Trump administration’s actions against Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs, Levine reflects on her own experience with DEI. (Photo: SANANYA ROBINSON-SHAH/The Stanford Daily)

Levine | In defense of DEI

Jennifer Xin-Tsu Lin Levine
  •  
Feb. 18, 2025
From the Community
Main Quad

From the Community | On language, silence and the sit-in

From the Community
  •  
Dec. 8, 2023
The Grind
Cloudy day in Berlin. Movie theater in the bottom right. An observation tower rises in the center.

‘A Linguaphile’s Diaries’: Entry 1

Julia Lasiota
  •  
March 2, 2023
From the Community
A photo of a corner of main quad.

From the Community | Not IDEAL — Speech and education at Stanford

David Palumbo-Liu
  •  
Feb. 1, 2023
The Grind
A pair of chopsticks hold up a dumpling, framed against an orange background. A melting, blue and yellow clock dangles from the dumpling.

‘The Mirror’: The traveler’s malady

Eric Liu
  •  
Nov. 13, 2022
Academics
Biratu stands at the front of the room next to a screen lecturing; five students are watching.

This language was banned in Ethiopia just 30 years ago. Now, it’s being taught at Stanford

Andrew Gerges
  •  
Oct. 20, 2022
Opinions
Graphic where a person sits on a rock facing Stanford's campus with cantonese words around their head.

From the Community | Cantonese finally fulfills the language requirement at Stanford: Time to enroll

From the Community
  •  
Sept. 25, 2022
The Stanford Daily

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