It's raining on Sunday, storming like crazy...

Hey everyone!

It's already the end of my fourth day at Harvard, and it has been an absolutely wonderful four days. My welcome to Harvard was the torrential downpour on Sunday, but since then it's been relatively nice out. Not that I would know, since my days are spent in the lab...

My program has about 60 students, which is great and difficult at the same time. I am excited to get to know all of them, because they all seem like great people, but it is also overwhelming at the same time, with so many of them.

My lab is also one of the, if not the biggest labs in the department, and therefore I have even more people to meet and interact with. It's been a blast, though; everyone is so helpful when I've had questions. The most valuable thing for me so far has just been the ability to talk to other people about their work and experience; it helps me frame my own experiences.

One of the things I keep thinking about as I adjust to this new place is how much I miss the familiarity of SU, all of the people I was able to get to know, and just knowing the lay of the land. It's funny to me that one day I will feel this way about this place, too. Right now, though, I am still getting used to the area - I can finally walk to work without a map, and I am getting a feel for the area between Mather (my dorm) and the lab. And then there's the matter of getting to my lab from the front door, which I have more or less mastered. And then, to complicate things further, the building is not laid out easily like the chemistry part of CST at SU, so if I want to go anywhere else, I could be screwed. Oh well.

So, in summary, all is well here. Let me know how you are; comment to the blog or hit up my email. :-)

Currently reading: One Big Damn Puzzler by John Harding.

"In between the moon and you, angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right..."

Rachel