Today is Wednesday, August 4th. It is also day eleven of Google’s Computer Science Summer Institute. This place, much like Disney, has quickly become an experience that will be near impossible to top. Unlike Disney, however, I’ve found myself missing home at times. I miss my family, and my friends. I haven’t had a day go by where I don’t miss them, but at the same time I LOVE this. Caps don’t fully portray how much I love this place. Everyone I've met that works at Google is awesome.
Our “sponsors” (I’m not really sure what they’re called. They take care of the agenda, and all that jazz though.) are Kat, Carolyn, and Jessica. Jessica is really cool. She’s like the head “sponsor (?)” that takes care of the majority of the things we do. Kat is really nice too. She’s a lot of fun to talk to, and reminds me of Mrs. Cantu from Tascosa. Carolyn, I actually know the best from talking to her, and she’s one of the sweetest people I’ve ever met. Our teacher while we’re here is named Charles. Charles is a computer scientist, as well as an opera singer. He’s actually starring in Pirates of Penzance as the Pirate King (I think) while we’re here, but they didn’t get us tickets to any of his shows. In fact, he’s performing in Mountain View the day we leave. Sad face. He definitely has the voice of a singer, and his laugh is one of those laughs that you can never imitate, but you wish everyone could hear it.
The first day we were given mentors, and my mentor, Enrique, is really nice. He invited me to have lunch with him last Wednesday, and I got to meet some of the people he works with. It was really fun getting to talk to them. Other than that, we’ve got lectures from Jeremy, who works on Google Street View; Tara, who discussed diversity in Computer Science with us; Demian, who presented a presentation on how to present things; Anna, who did True Colors with us (I was a blue primarily, but pretty evenly spread out); and Angela, who discussed how Google Adwords worked. Those were the people who talked to us from Google. Outside of Google we’ve got the chance to listen to a Nasa engineer, Guy; an EA engineer, Tom; a Stanford professor, Sebastian; an Intel product marketing manager, Lantha; and two guys from startup companies, Brian and Andrew. I promise, if you stick with me for a few more informational things, I will get to the fun suff. =D
If you haven’t heard about it yet, Google is paying for almost everything. Also, if you haven’t heard, their employees get to eat for free. They have like 17 (?) cafés for the employees to go to. What’s nice about that is that a ton of the food here is healthy, while still maintaining the tasty stuff. Also (!!!), they have free cokes (including the glass bottle kind)/pepsis 24/7. I wouldn’t worry though, because I’ve had enough exercise and healthy food to cancel that out. I’ve almost managed to have a strawberry at every single one of my meals, only missing two because Google didn’t have them there. As for the exercise, last week I rode a Google bicycle back and forth from the campus we had class on to the main campus at least twice a day. Aside from that, walking to the stores right off of campus is a good distance. As for the general over all I think that covers all of it. I think, which means I can now start describing to you the fun stuff, like the people at CSSI with me, new games, etc…
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