After two years of homesickness in Delft, Xia Ping (29) and Helen Guo (31), returned to Shanghai last August. And they were in for a shock, because despite having degrees from TU Delft, there were no jobs waiting for the two engineers in Shanghai.

TU Delft wants to reach out to students who are worried about the fate of their relatives in Iraq or its bordering countries. But offering financial and psychological support isn’t as easy as it seems.

StrugglingThey come here, study, and then return to China with their new TU diplomas and hopes for a brighter professional future. Chinese students are the fastest growing group of foreign TU students and that trend seems certain to continue.

Nothing quite like death to stop you in your tracks…mid-step…grab you by the scruff of the neck, stuff your face in life’s mountainous dung heap of inanities..

PeepshowPeepshow at student society Virgiel! You thought it was hard for men to finda date in Delft? Think again. On the dating site of student society K.S

The TU campus is dead on weekends’ boring… and we’ve all heard how budget money’s tight right now at TU Delft… blah, blah, … Delta articles damn near every week about foreign students who can’t find rooms..

What smells did you associate with Holland before you came here? Smell produces reactions in us–happy, emotional, dizzy…sick. Particular scents also triggers associations, making us automatically recall something or someone special to us.

It’s the most ‘typical Dutch’ thing I know, but you won’t find a little Delft Blue porcelain doofpot next to the mini-windmills at your local tourist gift-shop..