Each month Global Meeting Point offers an opportunity for members of TU Delft%s multinational community to meet and eat and discuss a variety of pertinent social and cultural issues.
I’ve been a bit ill lately. Nothing quite out of the ordinary, were it not that I%m a very healthy bloke. I’m on a strict germ-killing diet: two packs a day and half a bottle of scotch.
With exams and “herfstvakantie” drawing nearer, all work and no play makes life in Delft very dull. Here are some tips for things to do when you%re itching to get out and have some fun.
From the Transylvanian Alps to the Dutch polder… Bogdan and Iulia Tatomir are brother and sister computer scientists from Romania who share an office in the Department of Mediamatica and, apparently, don%t know the meaning of the words ‘sibling rivalry’.
Resident permitsDutch Minister Rita Verdonk said he is “not happy” with the huge increase in the price of a Dutch residence permits, as the Dutch parliament debated the effectiveness and cost-efficiency of the IND (Immigration Naturalization Department), which raised the price of a temporary residence permit from 56 euros to 430 euros in one year.
Joining the new TU sailing club Broach proved a great way for a French foreign student to meet new friends and experience the barren beauty of Friesland.
Mobile headachesDutch Institute for Applied Research in Delft, TNO, has discovered that the communications antennas for UMTS connections, which provide fast links between Internet servers and mobile phones, could be harmful to your health.
”Sadness at takeover. Air France swallows up KLM”, the Telegraph headlined on news that Dutch air carrier and national symbol KLM is merging with Air France.
Urban planner Smari Johnsen, 27, from Reykjavik, Iceland, is a 2003 graduate of Delft”It’s been two months since I completed my two-year Masters degree program at TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture.
Feeling lost and hungry for home cooking, first-year PhD Anish Patel found happiness in a meal under the golden arches.”Man, I miss the good ol’ USA, its burgers and bottomless cups of coffee.
