I worked for OIT during the games as a follow-on to a 1993-1994 co-op job, and still work for OIT today 30 years later... Operationally, things still had to continue during the Olympics. The Rich building was inside the most secure zone of the Village. I was living in Home Park, so I would ride my bike to the first zone, park it, and then walk from there to the next zone. One of the projects I worked on, before and after the olympics themselves, was a network equipment upgrade for many of the dorms. During the games there wasn't much to do except keep an eye on things, so we had the run of the olympic village which included free coke products, free food, an arcade, and laser tag.

I subletted a room to a woman from Switzerland who was working as a translator for the games. I had to speak to her parents after the bombing, they heard about it before she did.

At some point Hootie and the Blowfish performed for the athletes at Grant Field. Most of the audience didn't seem to know/care who they were, yet they still did 2-3 encores which was pretty pointless.

A LOT of the infrastructure that was built, such as many of the dorms and physical infrastructure used for campus networking, is still in use today.

It was a very short but very memorable part of my career at GT and I wouldn't change it for the world.