FireNo, it wasn’t like the whole center of Delft was on fire last Tuesday: one didn’t see a %%lurid tower, visible a hundred miles away, reddening the sky, darkening the day and filling the land with smoke%%, to quote Jack London’s description of the Great Fire of San Francisco.
For Peter Rothbart, a visiting American researcher at the TU’s Aerospace Engineering faculty, being unable to follow conversations in Dutch has allowed him to emphasize with his mother’s deafness and her struggle to ‘live outside the language barrier, waiting like a beggar at the gate.’
The Dutch Central Planning Bureau (CPB) issued a stark warning: “The European welfare state is unsustainable.”
Each month Global Meeting Point offers an opportunity for members of TU Delft%s multinational community to meet and eat and discuss a variety of pertinent social and cultural issues.
I’ve been a bit ill lately. Nothing quite out of the ordinary, were it not that I%m a very healthy bloke. I’m on a strict germ-killing diet: two packs a day and half a bottle of scotch.
With exams and “herfstvakantie” drawing nearer, all work and no play makes life in Delft very dull. Here are some tips for things to do when you%re itching to get out and have some fun.
From the Transylvanian Alps to the Dutch polder… Bogdan and Iulia Tatomir are brother and sister computer scientists from Romania who share an office in the Department of Mediamatica and, apparently, don%t know the meaning of the words ‘sibling rivalry’.
Resident permitsDutch Minister Rita Verdonk said he is “not happy” with the huge increase in the price of a Dutch residence permits, as the Dutch parliament debated the effectiveness and cost-efficiency of the IND (Immigration Naturalization Department), which raised the price of a temporary residence permit from 56 euros to 430 euros in one year.
Joining the new TU sailing club Broach proved a great way for a French foreign student to meet new friends and experience the barren beauty of Friesland.
Mobile headachesDutch Institute for Applied Research in Delft, TNO, has discovered that the communications antennas for UMTS connections, which provide fast links between Internet servers and mobile phones, could be harmful to your health.
