Katie Coons - The University of Texas at Austin
Distributed Mentor Program Summer 2004
Journal
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Week 1
My mentor will not actually be here at U. Texas for the first two weeks I am here, so I got to know everyone else I'll be working with and obtained the necessary accounts to get the Scale program set up. I was kept quite busy outside work doing fun stuff. I saw a play and watched Harry Potter at a dinner theater on Sunday. I went to a swing dance on Thursday and saw Super Size Me in the theater on Friday. That was scary, I wanted to call my friend back home and tell him to stop eating McDonalds. I went for a 7 mile run around Austin's Town Lake on Saturday morning, which was awesome and beautiful, and then I went for a swim that afternoon. We all went to Mozart's Cafe after the movie Sunday night, which was this beautiful little coffee place right on the Lake. The CS grad students and the other students in my dorm keep me very busy anytime I'm not at work. It turns out there were tons of people here who play racquetball so I got myself a pass to the gym and go a few times a week. So far I'm having a lot of fun and I hope things stay this way! We've only just been introduced to the code we'll be working on this summer so we will probably spend most of next week familiarizing ourselves with it and deciding how to go about getting started on our backend PowerPC compiler.
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