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rubahI'm all moved into my apartment-- my roommate is super awesome. It's so weird to finally live with another girl who I can really hang out with.
Atlanta is so daunting-- I haven't really gotten out of the little Tech circle in the middle, but my days have been full enough.
I think I'll hit the lab about 9:30 or 10, lunch at 12, and go home sometime 5 or 5:30ish. That seems to be approximately my labmates' schedules (they're really cool, too. Nerdy and funny xD)
everything is so expensive here xD it's so dumb. 20oz cokes are $1.50 in vending machines :p the dorm cafeteria dinners are almost $10, and while they don't actively prohibit you from removing food from them like the UofA did, they don't encourage it either. (although they do seem to encourage you to take a drink with you! it is pretty cool. they even have a slushie machine in there xD) The whole thing was about on par with the NW Quads (that's mostly for stu's benefit), especially with the decentralized layout and the "fancy" foods, but some of it was pretty Brough-like. I found it interesting that they posted the nutritional info for everything.
They don't have so extensive of a campus bus system as Arkansas does, partly because campus is very closely packed, and partly because Atlanta has its own mass transit service.
and ummmm, I'l'l talk about the robot, if anyone's interested!
Atlanta is so daunting-- I haven't really gotten out of the little Tech circle in the middle, but my days have been full enough.
I think I'll hit the lab about 9:30 or 10, lunch at 12, and go home sometime 5 or 5:30ish. That seems to be approximately my labmates' schedules (they're really cool, too. Nerdy and funny xD)
everything is so expensive here xD it's so dumb. 20oz cokes are $1.50 in vending machines :p the dorm cafeteria dinners are almost $10, and while they don't actively prohibit you from removing food from them like the UofA did, they don't encourage it either. (although they do seem to encourage you to take a drink with you! it is pretty cool. they even have a slushie machine in there xD) The whole thing was about on par with the NW Quads (that's mostly for stu's benefit), especially with the decentralized layout and the "fancy" foods, but some of it was pretty Brough-like. I found it interesting that they posted the nutritional info for everything.
They don't have so extensive of a campus bus system as Arkansas does, partly because campus is very closely packed, and partly because Atlanta has its own mass transit service.
and ummmm, I'l'l talk about the robot, if anyone's interested!
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Date: 2010-06-10 02:56 pm (UTC)(talk about the robot!)
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Date: 2010-06-10 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-10 03:30 pm (UTC)The robot is a four legged, three joints-per-leg creature intended to rescue people from disaster sites (fires, earthquakes, bombings). Right now, we're working on modeling it on computers and another university is building a prototype (we have one, but it only has two legs and isn't hooked up to anything).
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Date: 2010-06-10 09:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-11 02:44 am (UTC)Your pricing sounds about on par with Chicago. Cept, I'm in Cook County where the sales tax is 10%. It's absolutely ridiculous. I didn't even encounter these prices when I was in SoCal ;o) (any excuse to say cali is better than IL hehehehe)
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Date: 2010-06-17 01:50 am (UTC)