Touring Delft’s cafes, exploring Utrecht’s nightlife, visiting Amsterdam’s red-light district, partying late into the night, being a foreign exchange-student at TU Delft is exhausting.
This week a foreign delegation from the Electrical Engineering Students’ European Association (EESTEC) is combining business and pleasure at breakneck speed.
The TU’s Electrical Engineering faculty is currently playing host to fifteen students from six European universities, here as part of EESTEC. Although tourist pursuits are high on the agenda, the foreign students have also found time to visit the TU faculty and a few companies affiliated with electrical engineering.
“Meeting people is the most important part,” says a female student from Oulo, in Finland. However interesting it may be to visit the TU’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering (EE), the foreign students are definitely here to have fun. “I had thought of this exchange as a relaxing vacation, but this trip is incredibly exhausting,” says one of the three students from ETH-Zurich.
Certainly, the Dutch Committee International Contacts has put together an eventful program. With breakfast at eight, afternoon excursions to various companies and historic city centres, followed by late-night tastes of Dutch nightlife and the return journey back to Delft, the days are long, arduous, and often intoxicating. Somehow, though, the courageous students manage.
Th EESTEC delegation hails from universities in Oulo, Zürich, Budapest, London, Bologna and Paris. Two students from Nish (Yugoslavia) were also scheduled to attend, but failed to arrange their visas in time. The Yugoslavian students, who were part of Nish’s ‘observing’ committee, had hoped to become one of the so-called ‘local committees’, which form EESTEC. These committees, now seventeen in total, organize exchanges, congresses and workshops, where they exchange ideas about student and cultural life. “That’s why we visit so many touristic places with our guests,” says Bart Loffeld, one of the organizers. “This gives them the many opportunities to make contacts and get to know each other.”
Although visits to various companies are less important to the integration process, they do serve another important function. Loffeld: “Because companies supply cars for our transport, we chose companies that are near to the cities we want to visit. That way, we’ve got free transport for the whole day!” Who said electrical engineering students were only clever at manipulating computers.
Touring Delft’s cafes, exploring Utrecht’s nightlife, visiting Amsterdam’s red-light district, partying late into the night, being a foreign exchange-student at TU Delft is exhausting. This week a foreign delegation from the Electrical Engineering Students’ European Association (EESTEC) is combining business and pleasure at breakneck speed.
The TU’s Electrical Engineering faculty is currently playing host to fifteen students from six European universities, here as part of EESTEC. Although tourist pursuits are high on the agenda, the foreign students have also found time to visit the TU faculty and a few companies affiliated with electrical engineering.
“Meeting people is the most important part,” says a female student from Oulo, in Finland. However interesting it may be to visit the TU’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering (EE), the foreign students are definitely here to have fun. “I had thought of this exchange as a relaxing vacation, but this trip is incredibly exhausting,” says one of the three students from ETH-Zurich.
Certainly, the Dutch Committee International Contacts has put together an eventful program. With breakfast at eight, afternoon excursions to various companies and historic city centres, followed by late-night tastes of Dutch nightlife and the return journey back to Delft, the days are long, arduous, and often intoxicating. Somehow, though, the courageous students manage.
Th EESTEC delegation hails from universities in Oulo, Zürich, Budapest, London, Bologna and Paris. Two students from Nish (Yugoslavia) were also scheduled to attend, but failed to arrange their visas in time. The Yugoslavian students, who were part of Nish’s ‘observing’ committee, had hoped to become one of the so-called ‘local committees’, which form EESTEC. These committees, now seventeen in total, organize exchanges, congresses and workshops, where they exchange ideas about student and cultural life. “That’s why we visit so many touristic places with our guests,” says Bart Loffeld, one of the organizers. “This gives them the many opportunities to make contacts and get to know each other.”
Although visits to various companies are less important to the integration process, they do serve another important function. Loffeld: “Because companies supply cars for our transport, we chose companies that are near to the cities we want to visit. That way, we’ve got free transport for the whole day!” Who said electrical engineering students were only clever at manipulating computers.
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