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Boulder, day 0
So, I'm now in Boulder, on the dime of a Ph. D. program that wants me FAR more than I want it. Tonight was the "dinner for students coming from out of town" part of the recruitment weekend ... at a fairly expensive mediterranean restaurant. There were eight (?) of us, four or five grad students, and a couple profs, so we got to hear a little about workload, TAing and RAing, and finding what you want to do, and a lot about how it is to live around here.
Tomorrow is research talks, tours, meeting with people we might be associated with, and a trip to some visualization thing attached to a supercomputer (I suspect this is where they want me working). That's the part where I have to ask people questions, and talk to people and learn things from them, and for the record, that's the part I'm truly terrible at.
One of the other recruits is a former Mudder, ITRed in '99 and then worked until the dot-com crash, then went back to school.
Only in Boulder (probably not only) do hotel gift shops sell wireless cards. This hotel is ridiculous, by the way; I feel very out-of-place anywhere that valet parking is mandatory.
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Tomorrow is research talks, tours, meeting with people we might be associated with, and a trip to some visualization thing attached to a supercomputer (I suspect this is where they want me working). That's the part where I have to ask people questions, and talk to people and learn things from them, and for the record, that's the part I'm truly terrible at.
One of the other recruits is a former Mudder, ITRed in '99 and then worked until the dot-com crash, then went back to school.
Only in Boulder (probably not only) do hotel gift shops sell wireless cards. This hotel is ridiculous, by the way; I feel very out-of-place anywhere that valet parking is mandatory.
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