So for the next 10 days I'm actually moving to Silicon Valley as
a human being first and then as a Silicon Valley engineer
and I'm going to take you along with me
Two years ago at the time of graduation I had a dream.
This dream has already come true partially last year, to actually be in Silicon Valley and see the life there.
But today in Silicon Valley not to visit but to work there.
Excitement is on different level.
I have already been to that destination but today
to actually live there and feel that city by working in the same city,
none other than Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley. I'm very much excited.
And with this excitement, I'm having my favorite burrito.
This burrito is so big that it doesn't fit in this foil paper.
And while setting the angle...
In spite of empty stomach, I'll get the vibes of the flight because
every time I fly from Atlanta to San Francisco,
it feel like going from Bangalore to Hyderabad because flight is
always full of tech engineers.
And now in this flight which is cheapest flight that I got, Frontier Airlines
which is very affordable, while I was judging our hackathon project for our course
and I felt thirsty. So I asked them for water
and they say if you want bottle of water, then you have to pay 3 dollar 50 cents.
I only asked them to fill my bottle.
They said they can only give one cup or else I have to pay.
I have never faced anything like this in any airline.
This trip is not sponsored by my company.
I wanted to experience myself. So I will go in public transport to my hostel.
I came to the AirTrain side by mistake. This goes towards the rental cars.
So I need to go back towards public transport, which is called Bart.
Just now I missed my train. If I had not gone to the wrong train, I would have caught it.
And this trains leaves only once in every 30 minutes. Insane.
This station is 13 miles far from San Francisco.
For San Francisco City, I need to take this train for 15 miles
and this train will come after 20 minutes.
11 minutes more.
So it's 2 o'clock in the night according to my time zone and
11 o'clock in the night in San Francisco.
Whenever there's a solo trip... This is one of my longest solo
trip after a while, I always forget something.
If I'm with Katty, I remember that I need to get my jacket,
because now I'm feeling cold here. It's not that hot here as in Atlanta.
Again I missed a bus and again a 10 minutes delay. I shouldn't have crossed the road.
And this was the last bus at 11:30 o'clock in the night.
Now to get the feel of the city and to go towards my hostel
I chose to walk for 30 minutes.
I was not knowing that my hostel is in the middle of night life.
So they have removed 'R' from the Condor.
This is my hostel where I'll be staying along with 8 people.
Finally time to check-in.
So after locking my room, my roommates invite me for a party.
But within 5 minutes I go back because of my Course work
and I'm able to enjoy the party via window only.
I'm so lucky that my bunk bed is on top as it is more comfortable and no one disturbs you.
You get good sleep at night as there's no noise from below.
I was only afraid that I might fall from here.
This reminds me of my 6th to 10th classes because when I used to go to camp from my school...
It was known as Personality Development Camp.
It used to be in mountainous regions like Nurpur near Pathankot...
Suppose Shimla... There we used to get similar accommodations. It was fun.
There used to be around 30 beds in those rooms. Here it's like 5-8 in hostels.
And when I used to travel in college, I used to stay in hostels.
And finally staying in a hostel is something else.
Here I made two new friends. Maybe we'll get the opportunity to go out together.
Tap water is safe as everywhere in the US, pretty much everywhere in the US.
So every room has a tap.
Everything is so healthy. This is iron skillet which is very healthy.
This is the complete breakfast along with bagels.
Now before going to Silicon Valley in San Francisco I had
two options... Number one to see the Golden Gate Bridge
which is not golden and number 2 is to see the culture of bay
area and the city by checking out the Folsom festival.
Can you guess what I choose?
So we're here at the bus station before going to the festival and
my friend from the hostel. Hi Louis! Can you introduce yourself .
And also a software engineer like me and in the Texas City.
So how do you feel being a software engineer from Mexico, like how's the life there?
This is the tram train.
And one of the best thing I learned from you is about that
even in programming world communication is the key.
So how did you get a job as a programmer?
So you learned coding on the spot?
Nice. That's pretty cool. It's very inspiring.
Now before going to the festival...
Before you're parents will start telling that I'm spoiling their kids...
I will say that this festival is about sexual freedom.
We can openly reveal our sexuality,
irrespective of any boundaries.
So I have reached Folsom Street Festival while walking with my friend.
It's a unique festival to celebrate sexual freedom and
I'm being very careful while vlogging so that I may not expose anyone
because nudity is allowed here. It's allows you to be sexually open.
So people are getting Monkey Pox vaccine here and after that
they get a ring.
This city is so cultural. If I had not met my hostel friends
I would have not known about this big festival.
I enjoyed a lot at Folsom Festival. Now I'm going for my lunch and
then I'm going to meet my friend from Georgia Tech.
Finally I have made it to UC Berkeley.
I applied several time for UC Berkeley for hackathons
but it was so expensive. They ran out of funding
for my flights when I was accepted but he has
come here for hackathon before. Right?
They sponsor everyone with 300 dollars even if you're doing it from India.
We'll be doing a podcast soon. You can check it out.
It'll be in the description below about his journey to Meta as an intern.