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这是Belinda Tang在2010年申请斯坦福大学时写的一篇论述文。每位斯坦福的申请人都必须以论述文的形式回答数个申请问题，其中一个开放式的问题就是“你为什么选择斯坦福?”(Why Stanford?)。Belinda现在已是斯坦福大学二年级的学生，我们来看看当时她的精彩回答吧! Many ideas that came out of Silicon Valley now define society—the personal computer, the search engine that has democratized knowledge, and, in Stanford’s own Industrial Park, the once tiny company, HP, that is now the world’s largest technology corporation.[1] Last year, I, too, got into the game, creating a patent for live services delivered through a cell-phone. Though I was not familiar with the science behind phones, I provided insight toward the user’s ability to interact with the handset.[2] By merging knowledge of the technical aspects of phones with a humanities-based analysis of its usage, an IKain research engineer and I together created a successful patent.[3] Though this patent will not be as earth shaking as Google’s search engine, it shares a common theme with other Silicon Valley innovations: the interaction of technology, humanities, and information.[4] Stanford is a place where miracles take place every day—in the student dorms, in the underground labs, and in the garages of rented houses.[5] All these miracles, all these super creativity, are not just happening because of the smart collection of people Stanford has assembled[6]. It is also its unique culture that Stanford has fostered[7] . Specially, Stanford has an open attitude toward knowledge interaction and integration[8] in the broadest sense. When discipline boundaries are obliterated, when knowledge from many disciplines freely intermingle, miracle happens.[9] | 
