Dap Hartmann gets caught up in a seven-step menu to obtain a list of names. Are his expectations of a support system too high?

It is noisy, dark, there is no privacy and there is no second screen. Still, Otto Kaaij swears by his regular study space on the second floor of Building 28. Studying at home does not work for him.

Columnist Jan van Neerven is a proponent of English-language education at TU Delft. He already had issues with certain aspects of the proposed political Bill, which aims to better manage the influx of international students. And now, the recent additional measures to tighten that law go too far in his view.

Alex Nedelcu believes that he’s lucky to live in a city like Delft. However, he sees that it’s not an option for every TU Delft student. It seems to him that very few new housing developments are actually geared towards students.

Really improving social safety requires listening to hidden voices, especially those pushed out or choosing silence, writes our new columnist Ali Vahidi. This avoids superficial measures that do not work.