In many student cities it will get more difficult to find a home, predict the authors of the National Student Housing Monitor. And yet, they see encouraging signs.
Team captain Zhenglang Lu is proud of his robot football team, the Delft Mercurians. Even though they are a new team, they won two games. “This hasn’t happened for years,” says Lu who is looking for new team members.
Last weekend, students shoved a fridge and a bed base out of the window from the third floor of a student dorm next to the building of student association Virgiel. Complaints by residents about falling rubbish have been around for some time.
While life for students and everyone else is getting more expensive, the remuneration for association board members remains the same in the Profiling Fund Scheme. Sports and cultural associations consider the remuneration too low. This must change, they say.
It takes a bit of getting used to when you first come to TU Delft to study. How do first years handle this? Delta follows bachelor and master students during their first year at TU Delft. Part 1: After the OWee and IP.
Despite the shortage of student rooms, this summer Delft has five student rooms less: the Lorna te George student house is no longer open. And this may make a beer bottle collection of almost 1,700 bottles homeless. Delta spoke to the first and last resident of the student house.
A workshop on making friends, a Dutch lesson, an explanation about the Dutch health insurance system, preparing to cycle in the Netherlands. Participants in the Introduction Programme (IP) could choose out of 11 workshops to get to know the Netherlands and TU Delft.
On Wednesday, the penultimate day of the introduction week, it was time for the Cantus. After a rainy Tuesday, the sun shone again and the student associations again partied into the night.
Just like last year, OWee participants who do not feel like partying crowds can come to X for a quiet evening programme. Who comes?
