AstroBlonde

Front of Ångströmslaboratoriet.

Ah, first day at Uni. Everything is chaos as usual. The light in the printer room doesn't work (and apparently hasn't worked in a week), so I had to sort my papers out in the dark (and everyone else at the astrophysics had to do the same as well). It felt a bit like a "surprise room", you never know who is in there. :D

Then, the usual problem: computers. First of all, where can I sit? I thought I was smart by thinking that perhaps I could run all my codes on my own computer. Fortran is not a big problem, the problem is IDL. I have to be connected to Astro to run on their licence, and there's a big NO NO for Windows to get in there. OK, so next problem. Which of all computers will be "mine"? There will be a lot of students, and I really don't want my computer to be taken when I have to work. Of course no one has any idea of how many people will need computers, so now I'm hoping that "my" computer will be left alone! Especially when we've spent most of the day trying to get IDL to work both locally and with ssh. I'm about to write "Back off" on a PostIt on that computer, but don't know if that's too much. :P

I finally got LaTeX to work on my own (personal) computer as well. Well, I had to install MiKTeX but of course I did not bring my external harddrive. That means I didn't have any Tex-files to try on. I had to bother professor N_SB^L to send me a file to try on. I also had to bother him to print out some papers for me, because I have Windows on my own computer and once again, that is a big NO NO to connect to Astro. Geeeez! Luckily, everything went well... Well, except that everyone was a bit annoyed with me when I was printing. It was just a normal PDF-file, but it took forever to print (about one page per minute)! Oh, people got so happy standing in line for the printer. Especially when there was an error earlier so the queue was extremly long.

Then, the next problem: access card. Yep, I need a card to get into Ångströmslaboratoriet and to the AstroPhysics department. You need to be registered to get one, and I'm not. Great! My supervisor wrote them (the staff for handing out cards) that I need to get one. That problem wasn't solved today, so I'll try tomorrow.

But everything today wasn't problems! We had a very nice fancy coffee break (Swedish: Fika) at 15, as usual on Mondays. Buns, cake and coffee takes away all anger in this world! :) It's nice to be back! After, I went to a birthday party at B_ZV^L's place. Met a couple of nice people! :)