Waltham/Boston for IEEE VR2010: Day Three, The Beginning

Well, thankfully(?) today was a lot less eventful than the previous two. We were up bright and early for orientation at 7:30AM. The most exciting thing that happened there was getting these vests:

which further confirm our hypothesis that the conference organizers are colorblind.

Amy and Evan are all fancy. They're speakers/organizers for the conference.

I sat through a session on a new VR toolkit called inVRs (pronounce it "inverse"), which was cool, but also very cold in the room, so I had some problems paying attention. Luckily it was a gorgeous day outside and everyone took their box lunches outside to eat after that. The box lunch was okay, but apparently conference organizers only believe in a few food groups--primarily bread and meat. Lame. Lucky for me I bought some fruit and veggies at the farmer's market on Friday, and I guess I'll just pour a lot of milk in my coffee...

The second session there were three student volunteers assigned to one small room, so the other doorkeeper and I split our four hour shift. That worked out really well because I was planning on going into the city to meet my undergrad roommate, Bethany, for dinner.

(No mishaps with 70 or 70a this time, thankfully. I am awesome at riding the bus now, haha.) We went to a nice little cafe in Harvard Square and then ate delicious frozen yogurt with fruit and granola afterwards. I took the bus back to Waltham and a taxi back to the hotel.

There's a nice workout room here. Because I had some spare time I decided to try to run a little. Unfortunately my belly was full and my feet were blistered, so that didn't last long. I did walk a bit and use the elliptical. Hopefully I'll get to run tonight! (I'm running my first 10K this coming Saturday so I have to keep training.)

Then bedtime. Toni and Samantha had gone out into the city with others earlier, so they returned around 11. Tomorrow responsibilities begin at 8:30!