US downA new study found the number of foreign students enrolling in US colleges increased by only 0.6 percent in 2002-03 % the lowest growth rate in seven years.
Last week, the Delft International Neighbor Group arranged an excursion to a cheese farm near Gouda. It was a great way to explore the Dutch countryside.
As the days grow shorter, Holland%s national cultural events program gets longer. Crossing Border Festival and Museum Night are a great start to a winter of cultural content.
FireNo, it wasn’t like the whole center of Delft was on fire last Tuesday: one didn’t see a %%lurid tower, visible a hundred miles away, reddening the sky, darkening the day and filling the land with smoke%%, to quote Jack London’s description of the Great Fire of San Francisco.
For Peter Rothbart, a visiting American researcher at the TU’s Aerospace Engineering faculty, being unable to follow conversations in Dutch has allowed him to emphasize with his mother’s deafness and her struggle to ‘live outside the language barrier, waiting like a beggar at the gate.’
The Dutch Central Planning Bureau (CPB) issued a stark warning: “The European welfare state is unsustainable.”
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’.
