First day at PARC!

I had my first day at PARC yesterday. It was great, I arrived at around 9:30 am in the morning where I was led to the HR admin to take care of the W4 tax form, sign some forms and fill out the direct deposit form. Then, I was led on a brief tour of the PARC building (which I got lost several times!). It felt really nice being in the building and feeling the presence of Mark Weiser who used to work there. There were Mark's inventions of the PARCPad and other ubiquitous computing stuff on display. After that, I was led to my office and I did the administrative work of changing my password and familiarizing myself with the PARC intranet.

After that, then I met my boss and we started talking about the project which I am working on (which I can't say because it's PARC confidential) and the particular tasks that they want me to work on. I commented on those and made suggestions to what they had and they seemed impressed. There was a talk in the afternoon and I raised a question at the talk which the speaker felt was a good question. So, I think I made a good impression on them today and I'm eagerly awaiting my responsibilities and whatever contributions that I can make.

At the end of the day around 6 pm, I left and went to buy some groceries because I moved in to my new place. I feel that I'm really going to enjoy my stay here in Palo Alto!