After a long dreadful 7 hour flight (where at Chicago, I had to run from one end of the airport to the other side to make my connecting flight) and a 45 minute wait for a 45 minute bus ride to cmu…and me dragging along two huge packages up and down the block, looking silly, I have finally checked into the Morewood Gardens (not to mention that I probably got only 30 minutes of sleep in the last 24 hours). What is funny is that there is an idtech camp downstairs, the same camp I am servicing at Berkeley. Maybe their setup is different, but whoa so cool. The room I got is a double, but apparently I am the only one here. We get card keys instead of metal keys. I have my own private bathroom and the desks are really nice. The beds are slightly lofted. The weather outside is humid but cloudy. So goes my first day at CMU.

The next two days I will spend looking for housing and just getting to know the campus. So far, it seems that some Pittsburgh people are just obstinately unhelpful (at least the older adults). I asked one person where Tower B was and all she said was \”YOU CAN\’T ENTER THIS WAY YOU CAN\’T ENTER THIS WAY GO THAT WAY [which was tower c]\” Then I overheard some mother/daughter group ask the bus driver if they could get off at Liberty/7th. The bus driver just said that he doesn\’t stop there. Then later on, he finally admitted that he stopped at Liberty/6th. How did this happen?