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Boulder, day 1
The theme for the day seemed to be "information overload". They got us up at 8 for breakfast, then two hours of rapid-fire research group talks from professors. From there it was a whirlwind tour of the department and the different labs (cubicle farms for grad students), then out for a short tour of campus (in the snow, yay). Then lunch - with the entire deparment, where we were expected to mingle and chat it up with professors, find who we'd want to work with and what we'd want to do - the kind of chatting I'm miserable at. Just as I'm getting serious stranger overdose, they haul us off to NCAR.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research is a lab up the hill from Boulder with a bunch of supercomputers. They sat us down in their conference room and talked about what those supercomputers do, and showed off the giant 3d projection screen with huricane simulations. That visualization is one of the few things that might interest me there. Then they walked us through the machine room. One of the supercomputers looks like this: \\. And then, we came back for more mingling.
By then, I'd effectively shut down. Too many strangers, too much expectation of interacting with them. I poked around the internet a bit, then it was off to a professor (also dean)'s house (ridiculously expensive house) for (catered) dinner. The food was ok, but I was all but gone, and people noticed. Finally I escaped there, retrieved my car, and put Boulder to my back.
I'd changed my flight 24 hours earlier, to today. As such, I'm now back in Claremont, and comfortable, rather than having to go to a Flaming Dessert Party (aka beer party) with people I hopefully will never see again, letting them get drunk while I have to drive afterward.
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research is a lab up the hill from Boulder with a bunch of supercomputers. They sat us down in their conference room and talked about what those supercomputers do, and showed off the giant 3d projection screen with huricane simulations. That visualization is one of the few things that might interest me there. Then they walked us through the machine room. One of the supercomputers looks like this: \\. And then, we came back for more mingling.
By then, I'd effectively shut down. Too many strangers, too much expectation of interacting with them. I poked around the internet a bit, then it was off to a professor (also dean)'s house (ridiculously expensive house) for (catered) dinner. The food was ok, but I was all but gone, and people noticed. Finally I escaped there, retrieved my car, and put Boulder to my back.
I'd changed my flight 24 hours earlier, to today. As such, I'm now back in Claremont, and comfortable, rather than having to go to a Flaming Dessert Party (aka beer party) with people I hopefully will never see again, letting them get drunk while I have to drive afterward.
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