I'm in the second week of my Ph.D. at the School of Computer Science and Informatics at University College Dublin. I still seem to be running around like a headless chicken, filling in forms and trying to figure out how to use all the various systems, but it will be 4 years in total, so I think it's ok for me to take more than a few weeks to settle in.

Matt and I moved into a flat in Milltown, which is about 20 minutes walk from the main campus. Matt's fiancée Laura joined us at the weekend and our NTL broadband was installed yesterday.

Matt and I also heard yesterday that we have both been awarded full IRCSET scholarships.