First day at uni.

Went... surprisingly well, considering I only slept for four hours at most. We're not actually doing much of anything this week, just introduction to the subject, the faculty and each other. Not much else to say about it, really; Uppsala is still a beautiful city, and not too hard to navigate with a couple of landmarks in mind (but a map in hand helps, of course).

Overall, I feel the reception from Uppsala has been quite different from that at Stockholm; at SU everything felt a lot more to-the-point and efficient, while UU has sent a whole bunch of pamphlets and broschures with information about everything from an actual map to student health to the university pubs. A lot of things you at SU had to look up for yourself. I suspect this has more to do with the fact that I'm studying a proper programme now rather than a single course, but it's still a nice change (if a little overwhelming, what with all the cries of "go forth and socialise").

High-light of the day was the course administrator (whose lectures I won't be attending until december, boo) casually mentioning how much she liked sci-fi during the presentation. And then afterwards we ended up talking about religion in all sorts of things from Doctor Who to Frankenstein. <3 She mentioned getting a discussion group together at some point if more people were interested, which. Squee!

This was after talking about an article she's writing about some of Margaret Atwood's novels and telling me to send her an e-mail if I wanted to take a preliminary look at it. Which? Is awesome?? But also terrifying. I graduated last year, I don't have any good opinions yet. o__o;

All in all, a good start. Let's hope it stays that way tomorrow.