To get there, we had to catch a 6:15am flight, which meant we left HMC at around 4:45am.
We made a wrong turn, and wasted some time, but got to the airport on time for loading.
During the flight, we got to spend some quality time with Professor David Money Harris and go over stuff we were still a little hazy on and some new ideas we were working on. Here is Braly going over some ideas for a floorplan for the chip. Sorry, spacing was tight. That's Julien's head in the background.
Being in the morning, we had a nice sunrise as we took off. =]
More quality time, this time going over the delay calculations. I wasn't sure I did them right, but after a brief talk with Prof. Harris, I was glad I estimated as close as I could get. Made me happy. However, Lolly and Julien weren't quite as comfortable, so they got some time to review the calculations while Michael and I tried to take a quick nap.
We couldn't take pictures in the buildings, so no pictures of the presentation nor the really cool lab. I also forgot to take a picture of the nice lunch we had. It was thai food and Braly approved of the quality, so it must have been the good stuff.
But we did get to take a nice picture with the whole team and our liaisons. Left to right: Prof. Harris, Julien, Michael, Sanu, Ram, and Lolly.
It is now about 4pm, so after a cool lab tour and more ideas on how to make our chip, such as about five ways to have a backup clock for the chip, we started driving back to the airport. These two knocked out before I did. =]
Due to some traffic, we got to the terminal at around 6:10pm for a 6:35pm flight. So, Professor Harris drove up the rental, we popped out, grabbed our stuff and started to run. Down a flight of stairs, shooting across the street from the parking structure, into the terminal. A quick glance around to find the Southwest terminals, print our boarding passes, dashing to security, and as we scurried to the gate
we realized the flight had been delayed. Probably one of the few times you're ever glad it was delayed.
The weird thing was I was in the back, so I kept thinking how epic this looked, the classic mad dash to the airplane with the Professor in the lead, and I wanted to take a picture. Problem was, I was running at full speed too.
Luckily, this meant a quick dinner. I also joked with Julien, who is a french exchange student, that now he'd had a Quizno's sandwich for breakfast, thai food for lunch, and a burrito for dinner. Michael joyfully added, "welcome to America." Interestingly, Julien has quite the appetite and once we got back to Mudd planned on making a trip to Jay's Place for more food.
Out we leave the terminal.
Oh, and by the way, Lolly really hates pictures of her, so by now she was threatening physical violence on my person if I kept taking pictures.
Chilling waiting for the shuttle back to the parking lot where we stashed the Clinic van.
Back at Mudd, safe and sound, much wiser than we left, and a heck of a lot more tired. It's 11pm in this picture.
And that's that. A full day spent traveling and talking with people way more knowledgeable than us. We did get quite a bit out of it, such as some fun times together and learning about how Intel tests its chips. Oh, and we got to see the teraflop chip Intel built a few years ago. Crazy awesome stuff.
Now I just have to finish the MicroPs lab, a presentation on Haydn, VLSI research, Clinic Verilog code hacking, Cell library components......
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