Pictures from UT Austin Trip (3/17-3/19)

Here are the pictures I took while I was in Austin visiting UT Austin for graduate school. They are in chronological order.

Monday, March 17, 2008

My flight landed after midnight, so there wasn't much to take pictures of. I noticed they had a place called "The Salt Lick" in the food court area, but of course everything was closed. Apparently, it's a good barbecue place though. Unsurprisingly, I was told that Austin has good barbecue and good Tex-Mex.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

I took the bus in with my host to get to campus. A day pass only cost $1, and if you're a student of UT Austin, you ride all the buses for free. This was mind-boggling coming from Boston.

Here are a couple pictures of the hallway of theory faculty and students. This is in the Taylor building, which is slated for eventual destruction and replacement by a cool new building funded by Dell.




Here is a view from the ACES building, which is the newer CS building which houses a bunch more of the applied stuff. It had a cubicle farm for some graduate students in systems and a more normal-looking grad student office when I visited Tandy Warnow's students later.


And here is the pretty lobby of ACES.


Back in Taylor, here's a grad student office.


And here are a bunch of pictures of the campus outside.












Here's a view of the library. They had card catalog stuff inside, but I refrained from taking a picture...

Behind the front desk at the gym, there were a lot of servers for some reason.


The far wall has squash courts, and the TVs are being watched by people running on treadmills, etc.


Some more stuff outside, including a view of the Capitol in the second picture.




The inside of a business building which had escalators and a ticker tape thing(!).


Wednesday, March 19

My host took me on a driving tour of the Austin area. Here are pictures from the top of a hill that was particularly scenic.









And here's where you can see me standing around like a dork.



In an entirely different place, we see a swimming pool that is actually part of a creek or something.