10 Jan 2008 1 Comment

2008 has started… so does my PhD programme

Fortunately or unfortunately 2008 has come!

Even though I found not so nice weather and got a flu during my vacations in Italy, after all I had a very nice time with my family and friends. Fabio has been a great host, he showed me Milano, Sondrio, Como, and the surroundings of the Como’s lake. I had a kind of “Lombardia in a nutshell” trip. I enjoyed so much also New Year’s eve, thanks to the company of Andrea, Hilde and all their friends.

But at the end, as expected, I had to come back in the rainy Bergen… And here I am, without being homesick yet. Today is a very important date in my life, I finally started the PhD programme here in Bergen. All the staff at the University was very very kind with me, I had a tour to meet most of the people working at the Department of Informatics, and after dealing with some formalities I got into my own office, located on the fjord side of the building (that will be unfortunately obscured in some months by some new University’s building ). To please some of my geek friends I also add that I have a very powerful Dell PC with a 24” LCD monitor, running Fedora GNU/Linux 8.

The work environment seems pleasant, I am really satisfied and I look forward to becoming really productive. It actually seems that some people kept the finger crossed for me. Well, if you did so please continue like this, I would like to end the 2008 positive like today!

by Alessandro in Technology