Final day in Silicon Valley

The final blog in Silicon Valley.  This trip has been a great trip and was way more than I expected. I am very thankful for this trip and the professors who went on it. Today we had two visits in San Francisco at TuneIn and Target. TuneIn had a one floor office space that we got the tour of. TuneIn has about 100 employees in San Francisco, and streams over 100 thousand channels. There most popular streams are sports. I find it very interesting that for most stations they connect to they don’t need permission from that that station. Next we went to Target where a Curry alum Shawn gave us a tour and a nice presentation about the company. It is encouraging that a Curry student works here at the Valley, with plans to one day open up his own company. We met two Curry alum this week and it really give me hope and encouragement with a possible career out here. After Target the rest of the day was ours in San Francisco. We went out to a nice restaurant for lunch with Shawn from Target and then went on a hour ferry ride going under the Golden Gate Bridge and around Alcatraz or “the rock.” Then we walked around the fisherman’s wharf and bought some gifts. Overall this was a great trip and I would do it again in a heartbeat. We had a great group of students that became friends over the course of the week. Not many people can say they saw and met with companies as large as Facebook, Apple and VMware. VMware gave me the best impression and I established the best connections there. I would recommend this trip to any student; you just don’t get this opportunity again in your life. We ended this great trip with a small group going into Palo Alto to this great Mexican restaurant doing a final to toast to this amazing trip. I am sure most of us will find a way to stay in contact with each other. I’m sure some of us will maybe work out here someday. For the final time in the Valley, at least this time around, goodnight.