I made it to Cupertino.This morning was up relatively early, and then off to sit in a cattle car for 4 and a half hours. Then it was time to wait in line for our rental car while incompetent sales people worked the desk. A quick 10 minute drive landed us right across the street from the Apple Campus to my apartment. Aviare Apartments is my new home for a couple months. It is literally right across from the Apple Campus (about a 5 minute walk).We spend the afternoon moving in and buying stuff at Target. That is one of the nice things about California, they have Targets like they do in Illinois. Upon returning from shopping, I met one of my new roommates, Matt Pizzimenti. He is a crazy smart CS guy from Michigan, and he is working on the iCal team this summer. For all you Facebookers out there, you might actually be using his code without you knowing it. Dax Norman, another one of my roommates, flies in tonight. And Matt Ronge, my final roommate and friend from UIUC, arrives Friday.After dinner at Chipotle (thanks Leman), we took a stroll to the Apple Campus, to the Mecca of all Apple Computing. It was really cool, exciting, and nerdy.Tomorrow its off to check out a church (Menlo Presbyterian Church), and then spend the rest of the day in San Francisco with friends Pete and Amanda Docter.So the day was fun, and my dad is great to travel with. I am excited for this adventure, and excited to get going on Monday!Be sure to check out my new album of pictures of my apartment and of the Apple Campus under the “Photos” section.
Archive for May, 2007
Hello everyone, especially those who have gotten this site from Facebook. As you can see, I have chosen the blog path instead of the Facebook, and I find that to have been a good decision.So instead of posting things on Facebook, dealing with Walls (not the Melissa kind), worrying about groups and junk, I will be posting everything on this site: news, thoughts, photos, new software. Feel free, and please if you wish, leave comments and such.For those who were yelling at me to get Facebook, and with some good reason, here you go. It’s not Facebook, but it’s close.Kev
When I bought my books for the semester last December, I paid about $300 for them. That is pretty good. Half of that money went to a brand new $150 textbook, “Data Structures and the Standard Template Library”. So when I sold my books back today, guess how much I got back for all the books I had purchased? $1. $1. That is one more than 0. The reason I got so little is because all the books I had purchased had new editions, so they no longer had any value. It made me pretty mad, maybe even furious (after I left the bookstore). For those of you that are in, or have gone to college, you probably understand where I am coming from.So I suggest two possible ways of solving this crisis.
- Buy your books at the beginning of the semester as usual, and then if you don’t use one within five days of purchasing it, sell it back so you can get a full refund.
- Have professors admit to their students before the semester starts that they will not really be using the book, and that it is only “recommended.”
I think this would solve a lot of problems us college-book-buyers have.
So, in case you have not already heard, which most people really have, this summer I will be interning at Apple Computer in Cupertino CA, about 45 minutes south of San Fransisco in the heart of Silicon Valley. Probably a question that you are more prone to ask is, what will you be doing? Well, I do not exactly know yet. I do know, however, that I will be working on the Interface Builder team. Interface Builder is an application that helps Macintosh developers make user interfaces. You can read more about Interface Builder by clicking on the link below.And by the way, I didn’t really leave my heart there. I actually am leaving my heart in Wheaton.Read more about Apple.Read more about Interface Builder.
I’m sorry if this image looks fuzzy in Windows