Stanford Graduate School Party

Posted 07:33 PM, September 30, 2006, by saerni

Yesterday I decided I haven't spent enough time talking to my family. I feel like I'm constantly doing something, or at an activity, so I miss my chance to talk to my friends and family that aren't at Stanford all day. I called my mom and talked to her on the way to school, I'm not sure if driving and talking is illegal, so I'll have to find better times to get in contact with everyone. I also sent out a general email to all my family members letting them know they can read this blog. It's actually a great way to let them know what's going on. But it's totally impersonal!

It was a fairly short day of classes. I only had one section for the course I'm auditing. It was basically a linear algebra review, which is probably a good area to get refreshed. I also stopped by the Sidow lab to pick up some material to read so that I can get started on the ProPhylER project. I'm getting pretty antsy to get something started, but it's slow to start, hopefully just because the whole quarter geared up and everyone is getting re-acclimated.

After spending some time at MSOB, I went home and waited for my friend Beth, her brother Mike, and his girlfriend Sharon to come pick us up to go to dinner on Castro St. in Mountain View. David met us there. The area is really great, full of restaurants. We ate dinner at a really good Indian Food place called Shiva. It reminded me a bit of home around there, except I can't walk to the area. But it's still not bad! After this we picked up Alex and his roommates Shannon and Sarah. I saw Alex's room, and now I have the definitive answer as to why he knows everything (and why he should be allowed to correct my grammar).

We headed over to the graduate center where Nikesh was a bartender so we went by and said hello. He did a very good job! After this we hit the dance floor. It was pretty hot in there, and crowded. David, Alex, Shannon and Sarah went crazy, while the rest of us were more tame! Ryan ran into a guy he knew well in college, Brooke.
There were some pretty interesting people there, including half-naked men, people doing the train-dance around the dance floor, and various questionable dancing. It was definitely fun to watch! Of course Alex did his best to represent for BMI with his shirt! David was the less conspicuous BMI member, but definitely dancing as much as the rest of them! We headed home relatively early (since I was tired from getting up that morning).

Nikesh's POV.

Group Photo

BMI on the dance floor!

Beth and I trying not to get too hot.

Random half-naked canadians!
I spend most of the day today sleeping, then trying to focus on homework. I have to say, it's pretty difficult to get back into the swing of things, but I definitely made headway. It just took me a lot longer than it would have a year ago, mostly since I just can't focus when Ryan's playing video games in the living room! He was playing this game called Test Drive Unlimited. You basically drive around Oahu in Hawaii, and you can race people, buy cars, houses and motorcycles. The funniest thing is there are other people on the road from other players (it requires internet connection) and you can hear them talk to each other. One group of guys was talking about Chicken Corn Chowder, which apparently makes this guy's mouth water just thinking about it (and David's too)!