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.<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading