Babbling Brook: Google Campus!!!!!!!

Rish has a friend, Bikash, who works at Google, so we were able to visit the Google campus while in the Bay area! :) It was super cool! I saw an infinity pool for the first time. The campus has over 20 building and 50% of their power needs are satisfied sustainably (small part solar power and the rest from a natural gas plant they have on their campus). In front of where we had parked, there was a large area of empty land that reminded me of the NIST grounds. So, when Bikash met us, I had to ask what the empty land was for. The land is for their Natural Gas plant! :)

We walked around the campus, saw bikes in google-colours that employees use to get from one part of the campus to the other. They aren't locked or anything. People can take them from anywhere to anywhere and just leave them. They have gyms every few buildings. We went into one building where there was a google graffiti board. Also, there, they had about 8 screens set up in semi circular fashion, all connected. And you could use them to view Google Earth, Google Moon and Google Mars! SOOOOOOOOOO FRIKKING COOL! We walked around some more, but it was dark soon. On the campus, there a random LARGE dinosaur skeleton. Haha. We saw a bit of the sculpture garden, walked to the Japanese garden, but it was too dark and too cold!

Loved the campus! They have a couple of terms at Google - Google 10 and Google 100. Google 10 is similar to Freshman 15, where people put on 10lbs after joining good because of all the free food everywhere. Google 100 is, wherever you are on the Google campus, you are not more thn 100 feet from food. No wonder the Google 10!