Back to school

Last night was my first night in my new apartment at Stanford. After 6 months of traveling, it’s good to know I’m going to be here a while. It also feels good to be back in a university after a two years in the real world.

Coming from a small school to a big one there’s a lot to learn. I’ve got a week to adjust to this new environment before starting classes. It turns out there’s a lot of special things to learn about parking, printing, dining, the libraries, et cetera. Plus I met two bike related people, one cyclist and one motorcyclist.

There are permit requirements everywhere on campus, so I started the process of signing up my car. I’m still trying to figure out the story with bikes, meeting two cyclists is a good start.

To make sure that everyone is reasonable when printing, printing is $.10/page. At CC where anyone could print whatever s/he wanted, people literally printed whole books. I’m sure this small charge keeps printing in check.

CC had two choices for dining and they were adjacent. Here there’s a bunch of dining halls, restaurants, coffee shops, and eating establishments undiscovered. I’m glad my appetite’s big.

Today I checked out my first few books from 8 million volume collection mainly to see if my card worked. The ones I picked up are on web programming with Google Maps and I get to keep them until January (unless someone recalls them).