After the usual amount of fussing over paperwork (shoutout to the bureaucratic clusterfuck that is the Cambridge City Post Office at start of term), fighting through jet lag, discovering that watching Netflix nukes my network allowance for the day in my room, and getting lost AF, I am all matriculated, registered, and settled into my lovely little old attic room here at the University of Cambridge's Magdalene College.

Yesterday morning I went to get my module registration signed by my supervisor and ran into a PhD candidate studying ritual taphonomy (MY THING, GUYS) who told me I'm welcome to come poke around in her collection of Neolithic burials any time. Afterwards, I went on a field trip to a remarkable site where we got a tour by the famous archaeologist who discovered it!! I love this place. I can't believe I made it here.