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WARNING Long post ahead with lots of pictures (but I promise it's worth the read) WARNING
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So concludes my first week at the Googleplex. Although I got quite a bit of code done, I'm still in what my manager calls CL purgatory as I wait indefinitely for my CL to be reviewed and possibly approved. Meanwhile I'm annoyed that I can't VPN into the network to finish the code I was working on today and yesterday so now I'm forced to wait until Monday to get anything done. Separating work from home is annoying as I do some of my best work at home and I'm more productive at night.
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Today wasn't very eventful adventurewise since I didn't really explore more of the campus. I did try Indian food for the first time at a special cafe in Google -- the only one I know of in which you need to make reservations. Here we ate lamb and and rice and other interesting food which I can neither remember the names of nor pronounce them even if I did. This was all served family-style, which I learned is where they bring out everything on the menu in large dishes so you can serve yourself. Unfortunately we made our reservations for a little late in the day for lunch so we didn't get to eat much lamb before they ran out.
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Today I eventually became bored of sitting in the same conference room waiting on my design doc approval so I asked permission to go out exploring. I'm not used to this much freedom in comparison to my last internship so my team was a little confused that I even bothered to ask to wander off for a while.
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After dinner at 2 different cafes separated by only a common outdoor dining area, my manager took me on a small tour of part of the campus. During the tour, I was told that in reality, many of the scenes from The Internship weren't even filmed at Google. Take the slide scene for example. Or the wooden steps. Or the SpaceShipOne. That wasn't at Google. But I did see the SpaceShipOne that actually was at Google.