Starting in David's group

• Administrative
  • If you're a foreigner on J1 visa: you need ISSS to get your SEVIS entry OKed before you can apply for a social security number. After this, you have to wait until a day that is at least 10 days after your entry into the US, and 48 hours after ISSS has made the entry
  • You will have an appointment at Human Resources on the ground floor of the Engineering 2 building (that's where we are) where you will have to fill out and sign tons of forms. They might also give you a campus map
  • Use the map to get to the University ID office, they will print your ID card (it is located at the intersection of Steinhart / Hager roads) see also campus map http://interactivemap.ucsc.edu/
  • Go to see Al McGuire in the Baskin Engineering building (the old building just in front) in room 399 amcguire@soe.ucsc.edu to get your card activated
  • Get an SOE email address via Branwyn (?)
  • You will receive cruzID registration emails
    • define your passwords and you're set
    • redirect your cruzId emails to your SOE account
  • Subscribe to these two mailing lists
    • genecats: https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genecats
    • Staff: https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/staff
    • Genome recombination http://lists.bx.psu.edu/options/rec

• Technical
  • Add the "oops" printer (yes this is the DNS name), select the IPP protocol if asked

• Clusters
  • swarm
  • encodek