The Google Dream

Today was a fun day. I woke up on time today, even after staying up later than I should have. Haha. Following last night's activities this morning was mildly mediocre. We got up and drove to Google, our last day at 1950 on the Main Campus. Today I got to sit at a table with Lynn, Kyle, Ashley, and Lori. I accompanied Kasra, Emily, Lynn, Christian, Enrique, and Sam went to breakfast, however Lynn ended up sitting at a different.

Big Table let me down today. They didn't have strawberries. I had to eat breakfast without them, which really saddened me. When we got back to the classroom I ran over to Nourish to see if they had any strawberries. The moment I got there they took the bowl of strawberries, and replaced them with peaches. I did luckily find a parfait thingy that had strawberries in it. I took it back to the class, and proceeded to take out the strawberries, eating them and them alone. It wasn't the same because there were some nut variant, which stuck to the strawberries and gave them a strange after taste.

In class we continued to work on our web page in Python. I got mine working! Which makes me really uber happy! I didn't do anything much during my break, and after the break we spent more time working with Python. When we neared the end of the class Jessica got up to tell us who our groups would be. Before she revealed the groups, however, Charles talked to us about brainstorming, and other aspects of the project. She finally revealed our groups, and I ended up with Linda and Brittany. We then broke for lunch.

We went to Big Table again, instead of Charlie's because we only had a 30 minute lunch. There were actually seats at Big Table today, so we got to eat our lunch there instead of going to nourish. Also, they had chocolate covered strawberries! I love Google strawberries! After lunch we got to listen to LEADers give presentations on Wind Turbines, and Python. These kids are juniors and seniors in high school, and yet they didn't look it. It was cool to see what they had done with Python, and how it differed from what we did. After their presentations we talked to some of the staff at Berkley who hosted the LEAD thing. They were really cool, and we made them jealous of our CSSI adventure.

When we got back to our classroom there was another discussion panel, except this time they all worked for Google. They described their jobs and then answered a lot of questions about what it was like. I'm really jealous of a lot of them, because when they described their workload and work schedule it seemed like it was a lot of work, but it was at a lax pace. When they got done Jessica rounded us all up to head to the big droid, nexus one, fro-yo, eclair, cupcake, and doughnut for picture ops. When we got there we took a big group picture, and then the 6 of us from UT, including Joanna the BOLDer, took a UT picture in front of the droid.

After a few rounds of pictures I ended up carrying Lynn's camera around. I took a few pictures there, before we continued our trek to the movies. When we got to the theatre Jessica gave us our tickets, which we then redeemed at the ticket counter for tickets to Inception. We proceeded to take a few more group pictures, and I got to use Lynn's camera some more. We ended up going to Togo's, a sandwich joint, kinda like a Subways, but kinda better.

Then Inception! I love that movie. It was still great and suspenseful, even the second time around. However, I feel as though, in a way this trip has become my reality, and is making everything else seem like it's just a distant memory... I've grown to love everyone here, and when we have to leave I know it's going to be a bittersweet experience.

Back to happy though, we're all back at the dorm, and hanging out. I love this. =D

Now to people:

Linda/Lori:

So, the two of them are almost the same person, which is why I'm putting them together. They are probably the loudest people here, and quite possibly the funniest. "Remember that time in Chinarr?!" Linda is my partner for the final project, and I'm excited to see what we can come up with. I am glad I got to know them, because they've made this trip a lot more fun.

Kofi:

Kofi is my other roommate. He's just as awesome as everyone else I've named, in fact, if I forget to say that about someone just understand that I probably meant to put it there. He's responsible for my getting up when my alarm isn't working. Also, thanks to him I have woken up with Halo music playing. =D

Michelle:

Michelle is one of the nicest people I know. She is always smiling, and constantly has an uber positive attitude. She makes me day better constantly. =D

"I don't like being black! I like being yellow! ... Did you know these are happy foosball players?!" - Michelle Chen (She was referencing her preference of teams in Foosball.)