Berkeley and Laurence Berkeley Labs
| Berkeley is one school I visited last summer without getting any pictures. This summer I was out to correct that, so I hopped on the Caltrain by John's house, transferred to some other train thing, got on the BART, and finally arrived two and a half hours later. This picture is of a popular area suicide spot. |
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| Here is the administration building where, as an outside agitator, I was planning another sit-in, but figured I'd leave it to the locals this summer. |
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| On my way up the hill to visit physics types at the Laurence Berkeley Labs, I passed the new CS building covered in ugly green bathroom tile. (I'm utterly disappointed that this has to be the only time my cheap digital camera made something look better than it does in real life.) |
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| I had e-mailed a few people, but didn't tell them when I was coming. They wouldn't let me into the lab when I walked up to the gate last time I visited, so this time I just hopped on the bus that said "Berkeley Lab" and was driven right through the gate without question. The lady in the office told me that breaking into a government lab was a felony. |
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| I met with a really great professor named Bob, who introduced me to grad students I talked to for over an hour. This is the view from one of the windows next to where they make the silicon vertex detectors for Fermilab's CDF and CERN's Atlas. |
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| I think this is worth a full 640x480 picture. From here you can see the Berkeley clock tower in the foreground and San Francisco in the background. Just like at SLAC, physics snapped up all the best places before everyone else cared. |
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| I visited Berkeley on my last day in California. On the way home I had to transfer in Phoenix where, of course, the first plane dropped me off here, and the second plane picked me up way down there. |
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