Austin, it Rhymes with Boston

6:50 am flight to Boston, means getting up at about 4 am. After a long week and staying up past midnight, this makes for a very early morning. Add LAX and their terrible example of basic queueing theory and it makes for a frustrating early morning. Every time I have been through LAX there has always been terrible unnecessary lines and the moving of people from one area to another for apparently no reason other than to induce confusion and frustration. Anyways, we all made it to Austin. Everyone was asleep on the plane and in my half waking moment, I could have sworn they announced that we were landing in Boston.

I digress! We arrived in Austin and were swept away to our hotel via tour bus. Unfortunately some of our luggage was lost (once again, thank you LAX). The hotel is conveniently located near all of the bars and restaurants in downtown Austin. We are a few steps from BBQ, mexican, thai, and seafood. It's great.

The weekend brought some much needed downtime to catch up on emails (and blogging). Sleep, exercise, relaxing, and hitting the bars were on the tops of many agendas for the two days. As usual, some pictures.

View of Austin from out hotel room at dusk.

Night time shot of the state house.
Flaming Dr. Peppers during out night on the town.
More flaming Dr. Peppers... does MIT offer a class on breathing fire?

The weekend commenced with the annual internship interview sign up. We gathered in a meeting room at the hotel to do a draft style signup for our LGO internships. It was a little over 2 hrs of writing your name on the wall, but it went really fast and the group was fun to be around. In order for the matching system to work, we each signed up for 15 interviews! The interviews will take place in about 2 weeks!

Here's a picture of our draft. Pick wisely.