How to use verb(past) + ばかり

Just Married!! .... no, not me 

大学に入学したばかりです。だからまだ経験が浅いです。
I’ve just enrolled in the university. So I still have very little experience. 

verb(past) + ばかり　is used to emphasise the recent occurrence of a verb. This is most suitable when you are required to specifically indicate the recentness of something you just started doing or did. So, it can be something you just started in a repetitious manner (like going to school) or it could just be a one-verb-wonder(like chopping the wood).  It also provides aspects of a newbie or a greenhorn. 




Tim: もしもし、今何してるの？
Kim: あ、今デパートで買い物したばかりだよ。
買い物する　　　買い物したばかり

Hey, what are you doing now? 

Well, I just did some shopping at the department store. 

This is not a repetitious cycle, but just a one-time thing compared to the example above. 
Being enrolled in the university will continue for several years. 

Kim: 最近はどう？
Tim: うんとね、今新しい仕事に就いたばかりなの。
就く（つく）　to settle(at a job/occupation/workplace)   就いたばかり


How are things recently?

Well, I just started at a new job. 


This is a repetitious verb since Tim will most likely continue working at the new job. 


As you can see from the above examples, verb + ばかり can be used in situations when something takes place fleetingly or when something happens that most likely persists to the future.