Artikelen met de tag 'Rina' | Bron

I am a firm believer that we are all just students here in the classroom of life. Everything from actually being in school, to learning to use the public transport or communicating with another human being, all is just a study. Like with any course, …

Let’s talk about something generic: the Dutch weather. Both the Dutch people and internationals love discussing the weather, mostly because it has such a strong unpredictable personality. It also does not just stop at that. After moving to the …

Knowledge is power. Information is key. As an assiduous engineer, these are the words I live by. However, in recent times it has become increasingly clear that sometimes perhaps, ignorance is bliss. The heavy influx of COVID related …

This Monday marks the beginning of the International Student Week. A perhaps strange concept, celebrating the strangers of this city. I look back upon my first months in the city of EIndhoven, when I really felt like an outsider and how today it …

Eindhoven is changing colours. I sit on my balcony staring out at the trees that are slowly turning from green to orange to yellow. The leaves falling, in preparation for the winter. I have always felt that Eindhoven is at its most …

Eindhoven city, in its present moment, is a place bustling with life and energy from its newest guests: the students of the academic year of 2021-2022. As I move on to the next stage of my life, I cannot help but feel reminiscent of the new school …

Here comes a new beginning, a new academic year, a new start. As Fontys and Eindhoven welcome hundreds of students from all over the world, I sit humbly behind my computer looking for work.As you may or may not know, I am an engineer. July 15th …

I got vaccinated yesterday. My first wall of defence against the coronavirus. Now, I personally am terrified of needles. To go get vaccinated by myself was nothing short of an adventure for me and my loved ones. My family back home, worried that I …

With the start of a new season upon us, comes beautiful weather. And this year with this beautiful weather come some even more beautiful goodbyes. With the promise of graduation, comes the promise of new adventures and the inevitable reality of …

This is a special blog, because this is not going to be about me. This is about particular persons who very, very important to me. My teachers. In the past four years, as I have come to grow as an engineer and an individual, these precious …

Humans are the only living creatures that have this strange concept of time. We have numbered our days, printed them out big and bold on a calendar, and plastered it to our walls. Every day we wake up to do the old same things, yet every day we …

Last week the world celebrated International Women’s Day, 2021. Now, I will be honest here, I am not big on these days. I have never believed you need a day to celebrate a person or relationship, especially not celebrate equality: a basic …

I got all dressed up for work today. It was truly an occasion. It was an occasion because I could go into work for the first time in seven days! Now I know it does not sound all that bad. But paint this picture in your head: you are …

The start of this week marked the start of the spring semester for all Fontys students. While for all Dutch citizens it marked the coldest time in a decade. For me, it was the start of my graduation internship.As if the idea of starting the last, …