I have completed my first week here in Cupertino, can you believe it has been that short amount of time? One week ago, my dad and I flew into San Jose, and a week later, I have been introduced to the culture of Apple and of its surrounding California sprawl.Has it been a good week? Of course. It has been an incredible week. I have had the chance to meet, to talk to, and to begin to develop friendships with the inventors of software that I use everyday. They have begun to teach me, to share what they know. It’s incredible. This summer is all about learning. Its all about knowing the fact that the person in the office next to me is the creator of Xcode, and the guy down the hall, he wrote Objective-C, and two floors directly above me sits the CEO of a company that has changed many of our lives. In this week, I have begun that learning experience. I actually am writing it all down, however I cannot publish it till Leopard gets released at WWDC in June because of the “confidential information” my blog page will contain.Thanks again for all those who are praying for me and supporting me. Your prayers are felt.One week down, hopefully many more to go.
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Today was the first full day in California. We spent the morning at church: Menlo Park Presbyterian Church. It is really a cool church. The people are extremely nice, and John Ortberg (the pastor), is phenomenal. He is engaging, friendly, funny, but most importantly, he has content, and he uses the Bible! That, unfortunately, seems to be something a lot of pastors do not do these days. But the church cares about following the will of the Lord, and making an impact in the Bay Area.The rest of the day was spent with our friends the Docters, who live in Piedmont (just to the east of San Francisco). We drove up there, and spent a couple hours hanging at their house. They have decorated it so cool, and made their backyard a Jungle Cruise thing like in Disneyland, planting banana trees and bamboo. It is so cool. Then we headed into the city for dinner at a Vietnamese place. It was really good! But the Docters are great people, and fun to be with.A good first day in California.This post has an accompanying photo album
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.
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.
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