Bumblebee

6:00am
My clock’s alarm wakes me up.

6:01am
I punch my clock, because I think it hates me. I hate you too clock.
No, please don’t cry, I didn’t mean it…

6:02am
Now I really wake up.

6:45am
I get on the shuttle. I don’t think there’s a better way to go to work than
these shuttles that provide wifi. I can check my email, read a book (usually
“Learning GNU Emacs”), practice my Emacs commands, or listen to music etc.
The best thing about this is that when you actually arrive at your desk all the
email communication has already been taken care of.

7:55am
I’m at the Googleplex.

8:20am
I have finished my breakfast.

8:30am
I’m at my desk. I fire up Emacs. C-x 3 will split my window into two buffers: the left for
the actual code, the right for unit tests. I start working.
…

(devious top secret work here)

…

12:00pm
Le lunch, prepared by excellent chefs. Don’t worry Ma, I still miss your home-made food.

(Playing poker, swimming in the ball pit,
biking in random places, or attending random talks)

1:00pm
Go back to work man, what do you think this is, Wonderland?
Whoever refuses to go to work gets tortured by Larry & Sergey.
…

(devious top secret work continues,
mwah ha ha ha …ahem… uhhhh, sorry,
I get overly excited sometimes)

…

6:00pm
I stop working.

7:00pm
I have finished calling my parents/girlfriend. Time for activities
with other interns: gym (I was surprised to find out that walking
and sleeping are not considered hardcore exercises), games club
(scrabble, Wii, and Guitar Hero, Settlers of Katan), soccer
(although not that frequently).

8:10pm
I get on the shuttle and go home.

9:20pm
I arrive home. Time to rest, read a book/watch a movie.

10:40pm
Go to sleep jerk, this is a “for” loop!

Of course this is not written in stone and it varies wildly, but the basic
structure is the above. Saturday and Sunday are totally different because
I wake up whenever I wake up and I explore San Francisco, which offers enough
places and attractions to keep me busy over the weekend as well.

I am really amazed by how active you suddenly become when you live on your
own and you don’t have your parents’ protective umbrella on top of your head.
Suddenly, my day has become fuller and richer because I get things done
(it was about time). In addition to being good at your work, you have to cook
your own meals, buy groceries, do your laundry, change the light bulbs etc. It’s
really cool and I like it. I hope I’ll be this active when I get back to school.