Welcome to Caltech

I have arrived at the California Institute of Technology. This place is amazing! Old Spanish architecture on all of the buildings. A beautiful fountain and archways. Many scenes from Numb3rs were filmed here and I am just in awe and feel so honored to be staying here. Caltech only has about 900 undergrad students and 1000 graduate students so the campus feels very intimate.
There are 580 students here from all over the world. Among those, 133 are working at JPL and the others are researching at Caltech. Most of the JPL folk seem to be Aerospace Engineering majors from all different schools, MIT, Caltech, Cambridge, RIT, Colorado, Berkley, CalPoly and many others.
I seem to be the lone ranger from little Boise State but I have been fitting in well with the crowed and am meeting some brilliant young students. One thing I definately miss about Boise is the mountain scenery. The LA smog clouds the horizon and is really nasty. I am staying in the Caltech student housing. My roommate's name is Rob and he is an Aerospace Engineering major from Colorado, he is really cool. The rooms are kind of small but thank goodness they have AC, Pasadena is very hot and somewhat humid!

I had my first day at JPL today, it was amazing! the Campus is so exciting and the people that work there are real genius. I'll post more later, until then enjoy the picures of Caltech.