OWee day 4: Workshops, cantus, and student associations

Three thousand participants mean about 3,000 more bicycles in the city. After hundreds of them flocked to the campus for the sing-along cantus, all the bicycle racks were full.

The backstage campus tour along secret places on the TU Delft campus could count on plenty of interest. You could peek into the quietest space in the Netherlands, the so-called Dode Kamer (dead room) on campus.

At the Proteus rowing association, participants could climb aboard for their very first try at rowing. Would they stay dry?

The participants of the workshops at the Echo academic building participants learned new things on topics  like making friends and the cycling rules in the Netherlands.

Long queues for the brunch at the Base Camp in the Mekelpark.

What a daredevil! The Delftsche Zwervers student association know how to separate the wheat from the chaff in terms of the newcomers.

What creates dangerous situations in the touristy city centre of Amsterdam can be done in Delft during the OWee: a trip on a beer bicycle.

A good neighbour is better than a distant friend, was the thinking of the OWee organisers. Experience shows that people who know each other, can put up with more from each other and conflict situations escalate less quickly.

‘Cantus’ according to the woorden.org Dutch dictionary: ‘Traditional student activity in which songs are sung and a lot of beer is usually drunk’. This year’s OWee even had musicians flown in for the musical accompaniment. On the rest of the campus it was clear that the participants had obeyed this definition very seriously.

For the fourth day in a row, the student associations at TU Delft opened their doors to the new batch of students. Hopefully the party goers at this foam party at Sint Jansbrug had a set of dry clothes with them.