Starting Summer
Closing faculty meetings and end-of-year professional development days ended yesterday morning. I left town on an early afternoon flight to San Francisco.
My first stop was at You Tube, which is in San Bruno, just minutes from San Francisco International Airport. I stopped in to visit a friend from MIT who has been with Google for the past two years. I always enjoy Google offices because they seem like fun places to work. Tom used to work at the Googleplex in Mountain View. Now he’s at You Tube.
You Tube has the advantage of being close to San Francisco. It occupies the building that was Gap’s previous executive headquarters before Gap built new digs in San Francisco. The building is pretty cool. It’s a “green building” with plants growing inside – to help purify the air and create a nicer environment, and grass on the roof – which aids in energy efficiency.
I’m driving up to Vallejo and Napa this morning. My first stop is at California Maritime University. Their ship, The Golden Bear, is out of port, so I won’t tour the ship. (It happens that I’ll be able to tour The Golden Bear on August 15 when it will be at the Port of San Diego.) My second stop will be in St. Helena at the Culinary Institute of America. (This is the California campus, which is called Greystone.) After the admissions office meeting and tour, I have a dinner reservation in the dining hall at Greystone.
