I recently concluded Google was going to dominate with college students, via their pizza program. Then I received an e-mail inviting me to visit Microsoft for the Student Ambassador kick-off event. The event was incredible. I hope to post more about it here soon, but first here are some thoughts on my first flight:

• Getting through security was painless; The hardest part was putting everything back in my pockets and bags.
• My hometown has a nice airport; The renovations they’ve made recently are very nice. We have about six gates, compared to the other airports I was at that had about six nodes of twenty gates each.
• Moving walkways are just about the most fun way to spend time waiting during a layover.
• The airplane went at a reasonable speed along the runway. I was wondering how it would be enough to get us off the ground. Then we turned and stopped; We had been taxiing. Then we went amazingly fast. That was really cool.
• It took a little bit to get used to changing altitude and banking. Other than my ears hurting a lot (gum doesn’t seem to help me), flying is really awesome.
• It’s incredible to see everything so small on such a massive landscape and horizon. Cities are cool but mountains are incredible!
• At the airport and on the planes, you can find some very sweet people and some very grouchy people.
• The flights could have been improved by having more space in between seats and having better in-flight movies.

Stay tuned for more on my trip to the Microsoft campus.

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