First Week at Google
I finished my first week at Google. It's weird, but adapting to the environment there has been pretty easy, I'm surprised how much I've learned. I guess they make it pretty easy to be comfortable when the hallways are clogged with bean bag chairs and fully stocked mini kitchens. I met all my bosses and coworkers, and everyone is very smart, kind, and helpful.
The way I'm set up, my time will be spent between two groups, a hardware group where my mentor works, and a software group where I'll be spending most of my time in the beginning. The reason is I'm going to be writing a tool to support the hardware group, but since they don't know much about the software end of things, they assigned me a desk in the software group's area. Everyone in software is pretty cool, we launch darts at each other, they make sure I am learning the right things, and every Thursday is "Wine Thursday".
I'm also making friends with a few of the interns that I see around a lot, like Caroline the Mech. E. who doesn't know what she's supposed to be doing or why they hired her.
On Friday, May 26, my brother Joe and my sister-in-law Kate had their first baby, a young Mr. Theodore Job Tantalo, weighing in at a space-efficient 6 lbs 14 oz. I wish he'd decided to finish gestating about a week earlier, but there's nothing I can do about that now. I'll get to see him once I get home in August, and he'll probably be talking and dating girls and investing in mutual funds by then.
Yesterday, Saturday, I was bored, what with no Googling to do, so I (frustratingly) explored the Mountain View area for a shoe store, eventually stumbling on a Payless where I got some (very) cool running shoes. I then hiked back North to the Googleplex where I introduced myself to the (awesome) gym and watched the Pistons (suck).
(Like Mary, I have realized I (really) love parentheses.)
Today I did nothing. Well, I picked a lemon. Dunno what I'm going to do with it. When you have a lemon tree in your front yard you suddenly realize how useless lemons are. Really, list 5 things you can do with a lemon. You can't!
Tomorrow I will trek to the ATM and deposit my first check from Google and maybe write some rent checks.
Did I miss anything? Probably, so maybe I'll write another post soon.
The way I'm set up, my time will be spent between two groups, a hardware group where my mentor works, and a software group where I'll be spending most of my time in the beginning. The reason is I'm going to be writing a tool to support the hardware group, but since they don't know much about the software end of things, they assigned me a desk in the software group's area. Everyone in software is pretty cool, we launch darts at each other, they make sure I am learning the right things, and every Thursday is "Wine Thursday".
I'm also making friends with a few of the interns that I see around a lot, like Caroline the Mech. E. who doesn't know what she's supposed to be doing or why they hired her.
On Friday, May 26, my brother Joe and my sister-in-law Kate had their first baby, a young Mr. Theodore Job Tantalo, weighing in at a space-efficient 6 lbs 14 oz. I wish he'd decided to finish gestating about a week earlier, but there's nothing I can do about that now. I'll get to see him once I get home in August, and he'll probably be talking and dating girls and investing in mutual funds by then.
Yesterday, Saturday, I was bored, what with no Googling to do, so I (frustratingly) explored the Mountain View area for a shoe store, eventually stumbling on a Payless where I got some (very) cool running shoes. I then hiked back North to the Googleplex where I introduced myself to the (awesome) gym and watched the Pistons (suck).
(Like Mary, I have realized I (really) love parentheses.)
Today I did nothing. Well, I picked a lemon. Dunno what I'm going to do with it. When you have a lemon tree in your front yard you suddenly realize how useless lemons are. Really, list 5 things you can do with a lemon. You can't!
Tomorrow I will trek to the ATM and deposit my first check from Google and maybe write some rent checks.
Did I miss anything? Probably, so maybe I'll write another post soon.