Monday, June 3, 2013

Surrounding of Olivet University and the city of San Francisco


Olivet University is located in 250 4th St, San Francisco with its main campus at the center of downtown San Francisco, a block away from Yerba Buena Gardens.  This garden is a very unique garden in that it embeded the garden between modern buildings. Yerba Buena Gardens opened on October 11, 1993. In 1998 Mayor Willie Brown opened the Children’s Garden and took the first ride on the newly restored Carousel. It is the very best places that students of Olivet University to stay and spend lunch time under the leisure California sunshine.

Not far away from this garden, there is a SFMOMA museum, which its full name is San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It has some special time to offer free tickets to students, so that it is also a wonderful place to visit. The only thing that I find it is hard to understand, personally for me, is that MOMA has many very modern paintings, some of them are just blank boards or 2 single lines on the canvas. I really do not understand what they want to convey, however, the museum do have many interesting expositions.
The Moscone Center, also near the Yerba Buena Gardens, is worth mentioning in the life of an Olivet University student. It has many yearly big conferences so that students can attend to talk with the top engieers and business man to get insight into the industrial fields.

Some of the big yearly conferences I can mention here:
Google I/O   https://developers.google.com/events/io/
Macworld   http://www.macworldiworld.com/
Web 2.0 Expo  http://www.web2expo.com/
JavaOne http://www.oracle.com/javaone/index.html
Intel Forum  http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intel-developer-forum-idf/san-francisco/idf-2012-san-francisco.html
Semicon West http://semiconwest.org/
RSA Security Conference http://www.rsaconference.com/events/2013/usa/
Game Developers Conference http://gdconf.com
And so on. .
You can find news writing about how Olivet University students attend such meetings like:
http://www.olivetnews.com/articles/2013/05/20/806/olivet-university-google-i&-47;o-2013-lines-up-innovation--inspirations.htm

The 4th Street that Olivet University is locating extends to Market street, which is the main street of the San Francisco city.  You can find businesses like Old Navy, Gap inc near the cross of 4th St. and Market St. If you want to go to China Town in San Francisco, you can just take 30 or 45 San Francisco Muni Bus with a few stops.

The China Town at San Francisco is claimed to be the largest China Town outside Asia. Its first Chinese immigrants can date from the year of 1848. The first Old ST. Mary's Church opened at 1854. So obviously it has a long history and it attracts many visitors yearly. For Olivet University students  China Town can be a good place to buy food to cook and many life necessities that are not expensive. San Francisco Muni is the public transportation system in San Francisco. Once many design students had designed identity or logo for San Francisco Muni systems.

See here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivetuniversity/8828069110/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivetuniversity/8828070312/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivetuniversity/8828076478/

It has monthly pass and also some pass combined with Bart, the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit. Olivet students usually take Bart to San Francisco Airport or to the University of California, Berkeley .  San Francisco International Airport is a very modern airport. You can also find some design works for SFO and Bart by Olivet University students here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivetuniversity/8827982204/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivetuniversity/8827982804/
http://pinterest.com/pin/243335186089310600/

Olivet University is also not far away from most of San Francisco's Attractions. You can take the F bus to go to Fishing-man's Wharf. You can take 30 bus and transfer to 28 to reach Golden Gate Bridge. You can also visit San Francisco Golden Gate Park by taking the No. 5 bus at Market Streets. If you go to the last stop of No. 5 bus, you will see you in front of the Pacific Ocean at San Francisco Ocean Beach. It is a very freshing place for Olivet University students except sometimes it is quite windy and cold at autumn and winter.

Olivet University is also not far away from the world's famous Silicon Valley. By taking 30 or 45 bus for 4 stops you can reach the Caltrain station, which you can take the Caltrain to go to Palo Alto ( Stanford University), Mountain View , and even San Jose. You can visit Google, Yahoo, Apple, HP, Cisco, Intel, IDEO, Adobe and other famous companies in one day. If you drive, you can take the 101 or 280 Highway, heading South for less than an hour.

San Francisco is also a good place to do outdoors and sports. Olivet has many student clubs to various sports like soccer, basketball, volleyball and Ping-pong  There is a Facebook page for many interesting sports photos by Olivet University students:
https://www.facebook.com/olivetuniversityathletics

Once Olivet has several soccer match with GGBTS, which is Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary.
http://www.olivetuniversity.edu/news/articles/1969/12/31/346/olivet--ggbts-students-gather-in-fellowship.htm

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