Bill Gates

Bill Gates came to my university this morning to give a talk on the future in computer science career. (Yes, it's him, the founder of Microsoft and the world richest person) Actually, more than a week prior to his arrival, the Michigan Daily had already announced his plans to visit Umich. Tickets could be obtained free from the Michigan Ticket Office, but to my dismal, they were all given away well before 9am (I reached the office at 12+pm). To console the disappointed students like me, they opened up an overflow hall so that we could watch the talk live via video.

Because the talk clashed with my GeoSci class, I decided to skip the lecture just to sit in the overflow hall and listen to Bill Gates. My skipping of class proved to be worthwhile as the talk was really interesting. Bill Gates was more humorous than what I had initially thought, and he even showed us a skit that he acted in. It was really hilarious as he did many stupid things in the video clip, including dancing!! (kinda like the solo free style dance) Difficult to imagine huh? He tried out a racing game too during the talk, which he sucked big time in.

Too bad I couldn’t get the main hall ticket. Photos of this event can be seen in Voon Seng’s blog (damn, that guy got the tickets!! Said his photo copyrighted wor…) under this link

http://voonseng.blogspot.com/2005/10/bill-gates-michigan.html