Virtually all of Stanford's undergraduates live on campus. Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your roommate -- and us -- know you better. (100 to 250 words)
Do you like Interstellar?
The reason I ask is because we’ll be watching every night. I mean, there’s so much to watch. In one scene, Cooper escapes the clutches of gravity only to realize that his entire life has been stolen by the laws of relativity. He returns from his long voyage the same age as when he left to find that his daughter is now an old woman. Cooper and his partner Brand fight against time, brilliantly symbolized by the faint outline of a clock-shaped ship drifting away from a white, cold planet. Not only is it an amazing mediation on the theory of relativity, it is also an intellectual love fest and a space-sized emotional buffet.
Needless to say, I love it. It’s so good that I’m willing to completely ignore Anne Hathaway’s cheesy speech midway through the film, although I will joke about it while we watch.
Why do I love it? The fact that Christopher Nolan is willing to send an astronaut into a five-dimensional tesseract is a bold gamble on its own. Nothing else in Hollywood compares. It examines our drive to be human – to explore and to love.
It’s beautiful.
Now, of course we won’t be watching it every night. That was a joke. But I would love to show you some of my favorite films, including Interstellar. These films are little bits of me, my heart and my soul, and I look forward to learning about you, your heart, and your soul.