PhD Day 1

Today, October 1st 2010, I have officially started my PhD. I met up with my supervisor, and then the work started from there. OK, if you can call it work. Today we did not discuss the project (ooops)…it was mainly administrative work…signing the contract, seeing what needs to be done, registering, getting a bank account, getting a library pass etc etc. I am grateful to another guy from the lab who showed me around and came with me to do a couple of things…at least he got a free goody bag when he came with me to get a bank account 😀

At 4pm I was told I could leave, so off I went home. However, earlier I had seen an email from the residence saying that I had a package received in the post…hmmm…I had no idea about it. So I went into reception to ask about it…HMMM…a package from AMAZON. I opened it and I saw…Gift: from Ann Fenech…weeee…my sister had sent me my bday present…it was 4 books: Eyewitness Travel: Dublin, Lonely Planet: Ireland, The Xenophobe’s Guide to the Irish and The Classic 1000 quick and easy recipes…WEEEEEEE…thank you Ann…a wonderful surprise 🙂 I just need to get to reading them now hihi. At the moment they are sitting pretty on my shelf…but will get to them, do not worry.

I have now cooked my first meal in the apartment (pasta with tomato sauce :D), and am surfing the net, and finding things to do. Hope someone special logs in tonight 🙂

Mapping Science: Malta

Yesterday, my sister contacted me saying she came across this initiative to map places of scientific interests around the world. She asked whether I would be willing to help her out, and I immediately agreed. However, we decided to map all places  of scientific interest in the Maltese Islands, rather than just 1 city.

We both enjoyed working on it…we searched online and looked up info, and searched our brains to fill up the blanks of the places of scientific interest in Malta (and Gozo). We mentioned the major museums, libraries, educational institutions, laboratories, nature reserves and councils/foundations which are related to science.

I look forward to getting access to other maps…perhaps someone can do the Denmark/Copenhagen one, Strasbourg or Dublin one…I will be visiting these countries next month, and would be cool to be able to have such a map.

Please see the blog post where this map has been listed here. Do not hesitate to comment and do any additions/changes to this map.

You can also see the map here: