My silicon valley experience

Yesterday we went for a walk in the neighborhood and to University Avenue. I used this occasion to make a bunch of photos you can see below. We also passed by the Peninsula Fountain & Grill where we continued our cream test. The price here was slightly higher ($5.5) than at the Peninsula Creamery but […]

Yesterday we wanted to do a cream crawl. It can be compared to a pub crawl only that you go from one creamery to the next and have milk shakes instead of going from pub to pub and have booze. Our trip started at the Peninsula Creamery on Channing and High street. Here I had […]

The second day at university was so much better. First class was given by Prof. Smith about the Design and Analysis of Algorithms. This class covers exactly what I expected when I registered. So we will learn about NP-completeness, which is cool since I already know about it. Further we will learn how to approach […]

Today I attended my first lecture in the US. The experience couldn’t have been any more different than from university in Germany. The lecture wasn’t a lecture but more the forming of a project group. The aim is to create a database system using C. The system is supposed to have a good new feature […]

On the last days I attended the universities orientation events for international student and new graduate students. I meat some nice people and got some valuable information. Although it was pretty boring most of the time it was worth it.
It’s pretty amazing what the university offers in comparison to a German university. The university has […]

Yesterday in the early morning we drove up to Palo Alto in our jam packed car. We planned to meet our land lady at 12pm and wow what should I tell you? Although it’s a 5hr drive we got out of the car exactly at 12:00pm! I now know why my girlfriend is a successful […]

So today I finally came back to the US after I was in Germany now for about 4 weeks due to Visa reasons. The flight was long and boring like always but I am only decently jet lagged.
I was really nervous about getting here because I had to drive my girlfriends car from LAX to […]

I am a computer scientist originating from Germany and now moving to Palo Alto in the heart of the Silicon Valley. I am finishing my Masters degree at San Jose State University. I will use this blog to tell about the experiences I make moving to this country and I also want to tell about […]