All summer, I’ve been on an MIT email list for interns in the bay area this summer. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to do anything with them, because the first few weekends were moving in, the next four I had visitors, and then I was out of town for a while last week. Thankfully, though, I had my first event to go to a bay area intern event yesterday.
After the British Open, I headed down to San Jose State to pick up some people and take them up to Dolores Park for the San Francisco Symphony concert. We were planning on having a picnic lunch while escaping the
heat here in San Jose (at one point this weekend, my car thermometer read 117). San Francisco, as usual, was nice and chilly – only 96 in the park.
Linda and her parents brought most of the food, which we ate while all trying to huddle underneath one small tree for shade. Linda, Dmitry, Helen, and Roshni sat on a blanket. Aston and Aaron sat on the cooler. I was lucky enough to be sitting in a folding chair that I had in my trunk.
After we had been there for about an hour and a half, the concert started. They played a Tchiakovsky Piano Concerto, the Candide overture and suite by Bernstein, the 1812 Overture, and one other piece of which I can’t remember the name. I’ve heard the 1812 Overture too many times, so my favorite had to be the piano concerto.
After the concert, we drove back to San Jose, grabbed dinner at a nearby taqueria, then went to Redwood City to go gokart racing. I hadn’t ever been gokart racing with gokarts that powerful before, so it was kind of fun. Sadly, my knees were a little too long, so they kept hitting the sides of the car and getting in the way of my steering. I ended up only doing ten laps before calling it quits. While there, we also played bumperboats. Not as fun as you might imagine, since they were very slow…
By the time I arrived back at the apartment last night, it was nearly 1:00. Needless to say, I was exhausted at work all day; I think Matt was probably laughing at me because I was so out of it.
