Surfin’ USA

Getting started (again)

Well, I’m back in Sweden now for more than a week, after 3 months of internship in Germany and some nice days in sunny Stockholm (beautiful city by the way!). I have to say that I do feel a little bit like being back home.
I have already had the first meetings with Devdatt, my thesis supervisor, and we came up with a considerable list of literature: I now have a huge pile of books sitting on my desk and an equally high stack of research papers waiting for me. What is still missing is my motivation to actually start reading, guess I’ll eventually just have to force myself to it.
Today also the defense of a PhD thesis took place on which my thesis will mostly be based, i.e. I will try to extend it in some areas. I have also had a short chat with the new PhD and we will meet sometime next week (as he is naturally quite busy right now) — it would probably be a good idea to have gained some first insight until then.

Apart from school there has already been quite some partying since my arrival since almost all of my friends from last year have meanwhile returned as well (of course only those that were actually planning to return, as some were only here for a year and are now back home, unfortunately).
Also there has been quite some moving out/in going on at our corridor, we have at least 6 new people (and more to come) — I will soon even be the senior, i.e. living here the longest! The new neighbours I’ve met so far seem quite nice and, after the disastrous shape the kitchen must have been in over the summer, we have so far managed to keep everything nice and (relatively) clean.