Summer students

During the last week I got to know more summer students. On Thursday we were invited to a "summer student pizza party" outside at the users center in beautiful sunshine. That was really nice. Some people there asked me, if I was going to the graduate student party, too. So far I hadn't heard about the party or this graduate student association. But spontaneously I went 8 miles (=13km) by bike to the Irish pub in Naperville and met more people. It was getting dark, and as I said, the roads are not most comfortable for bikers. Luckily, I met two English PhD students who also live in the village and who also came by bike. So we could safely go back together and talk about the "European biking culture" ;-)