First day

The big task of today was to get a visitor ID. It felt a bit like the "Passierschein B68" (?) in Asterix... But my supervisor, the secretary of the theory department and several people in several offices were very kind to help me. However, first of all I had to watch about 1h of safety instructions online in order to pass a test about safety at work - even in the theory department ;-)

My supervisor and his collaborator explained me my task for this summer. I am supposed to use their Monte Carlo program to calculate expectations of different observables for the LHC @7TeV. Today I also listened to a lecture for the summer students here about basic ideas of particle physics and a short introduction to Fermilab. There are only a few summer students, but so far I haven't really got to know them.

First day on a different continent and I forgot my adapter in my room... So I had to go back in order to use my computer at work. This morning I got a bike from the housing office and biking through the nature on this campus is really nice. There are even bisons - but behind a fence! It is very warm and muggy here. I have to get used to the weather. No wonder that the climate different here on 41° northern latitude (same as Rome) after coming from 60° in Helsinki. Therefore it's already dark at 9pm.



Yesterday and this morning it was quite ok, but now I'm terribly jet-lagged and need to sleep...