Ryan shows Stanford love

Posted 01:38 AM, September 23, 2006, by saerni

I got my Mac all set up for internet on campus today, thanks to the amazing skills of Alex our IT guy. He's going to get windows up and running for me. I will be using the parallel environment, so I can have both windows and OSX running simultaneously. I also got a second key today for the medical school office building, and a key card.

Nikesh, the Czar for BMI (the student I can go to for all my questions basically) walked me to the GOALIE meeting, and told me all about the various courses and suggested I take whatever intramural sports I'd like to. He also said that Stanford has a great golf program and it's only 20 bucks for students to play, which for all you non-golfers, like myself, is apparently cheap?! He suggests I take advantage of it. Maybe in winter.

We ate lunch with his wife and Alex (the other first year), then I walked around the booths and spoke to the IM director about tennis. I'm going to try to convince some of my fellow BMIers to create a team.

Today I met with Serafim Batzoglou and set up a rotation for spring quarter. He has some great projects, just like Arend. They are collaborators as I had noted on papers from both scientists. I have quite a few courses I have to take before being able to rotate in his lab.

We also went up to the city to spend the evening with a couple friends. They took us to a bar where we had a blast sitting at a booth, talking, and watching a guy dance the night away. We're all sure he came directly from work, since he was wearing business attire. He had some hilarious moves, including the robot. No one would dance with him so we decided to give him a dollar, which he really appreciated! We left around 12:45 am so that we could get back here at a decent hour. It's hard when I don't live 10 minutes from the action!

Tomorrow our apartment complex is having a free brunch where we are to meet and mingle our fellow tenants. We're going, mostly for the free food though. The majority of the people living here are young professionals or couples, so I'm not sure I really fit in. I've seen a few students, but we are definitely in the minority. If nothing else we can go for a dip in the pool since it's supposed to be hot!

Since I didn't take many fun pictures today, I'll just leave you with a funny picture I took of Ryan when we made a trip to the bay to find housing around Stanford. I think this will be the picture I use for the evite for our housewarming!