Entering University Park

Leaving home coming to this new place, the farewell messages always revolve around have fun in UK and study hard. Oh yes, I'm here as a 2nd year PostGrad student. I have an appointment with my new supervisor here and I walked to University Park to meet him. Surprise that it's actually only 4 minutes walk from my house to Coates Building, nearer than walking from my TTS5 house to uni.

My house is just along the main road, reaching uni in 4 minutes:

So I had a short meeting with my supervisor, he did some registration work with me and showed me around. University Park is actually a lot bigger than I thought, 3 engineering laboratory buildings. The architecture and facilities are different, it's total a new environment. Nilai UC and UNMC look so small compare to this place, and I haven't finish exploring the whole campus yet!

Coates building and Pope building:

I'll be working a lot in the Innovative Technology Research Centre (ITRC), the top floor with the Structural, Isolation & Dynamics (SID) research group. It's kinda scary as most of them in my office are either final year PhD, submitting thesis or post-doc... Hey, I'm the only Malaysian around.

New office:

Anyway, I can't do anything since I don't have my student card yet, you actually need a student card with PostGrad status to access this building. Besides that, my desk is kinda... except a paper written with "Reserved for: Si-Chung Jong" and some stuffs that people put here for storage. Gonna wait for my PC too, or else I'm just gonna work with my laptop.

This will be the place where I spent my next 18 months suffering:

"For what you have done I will always praise you in the presence of your faithful people."
-Psalms 52:9-

For the very starting of a new study experience, I pray that nothing too bad will happen and may God bless this very opportunity to know Him more. Pray that everything will be fine mixing around with the colleagues, dealing with supervisor, and ultimately for good research output. Amen.