A post from CERN
So as my entry from yesterday might have suggested, today I’m spending the day at CERN. My day here hasn’t been extremely eventful, but the idea of it is pretty exciting.
I met up with three other people from LAPP who were shuttling over here around 9h this morning, outside the labo. The drive took about an hour– it really is a pretty drive too, all through the mountains and French country side. En fait, it’s actually the same drive I rode on when Lucia drove me from Saint Genis to LAPP, but I think I was slightly less jetlagged/travel-shocked this time. At one point we drove over this big canyon on a bridge, and to our left was another bridge– really old looking with castle-y type buildings at the ends.
Upon arriving at CERN, I followed Thibault (I think that’s how his name is spelled, and Margaz (Armenian, not French) up to the office where LAPP people get to hang out. After a small fiasco of attempting to guest register my laptop so I could access the CERN network and the internet, (Thibault is my very official CERN contact person, he gave the extremely official okay to let me online, ha.) I spent some time downloading an ssh thing to let me on the LAPP server so I could work on LAPP computery stuff…I did manage to get on that computer from mine, but I don’t have the right window viewing software (from what I can understand) so I’m unable to actually do anything useful here. Bummer, but oh well– at least I actually managed to get online. Pierre-Antoine wasn’t even sure if I’d be able to do that, and as he said, I can afford to loose a day. In result, I’m gaining lots of lost time on my random internet wanderings.
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