Month: November 2013

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This week we (the new students) have all been busy writing our research plan so I’m going to talk about the start of this amazing experience in my new life rather than any more scientific thoughts. I’m not very good at this but let’s see what is going to happen.

6 months ago I remember being in Portugal thinking what could I do to continue my education and progress in my life. I concluded that if I want to do something I had to go out of my Portugal and continue my future outside the country. That idea in the beginning seemed to be exciting, new experiences, a new start!

Settling in

It’s amazing how long it takes. We’ve been at Imperial for 7 (almost 8) weeks now and we’ve only just more or less settled in. Not that we all have a desk or know what we’re doing all of the time (certainly, I don’t). But I get lost on campus less and less frequently, and when someone sends an email through the mailing list, I usually know who they are. We’ve got most of the initial administrative hurdles behind us (registration, induction courses, safety courses etc.), but the first major obstacle, our research plan combined with a presentation at the funders’ meeting, is still ahead of us.

New guys in town

As one of the new STRATiGRAD students, now I have the privilege to contribute to this blog and leave my everlasting (well, not so much) mark on Imperial’s website !

Last month was mostly about settling in (moving into an unfurnished flat is pain in the .. IKEA), sorting out a bunch of administrative stuff, and trying to schedule meetings with my supervisor to clarify my project. Some say having a great title is half the battle, but I say it’s just 2 bloody lines of a 10 page long research proposal.  Btw my project’s title is “Integration and visualization of clinical-metabolic datasets for medical-decision making”, fancy right?