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Blog 2 April 2024

It’s the Media, Stupid!

After our final school exams in 1989, my friends and I went on a vacation. Not to a Greek island to enjoy  house and beach life, but instead to the remotest place our Interrail tickets would take us: Alta, Norway…
Blog 27 March 2024

The importance of understanding each other

University education has the potential to become a community that is a melting pot for diverse perspectives and ideas. Nonetheless, the increase in political tension globally has caused rifts to form inside communities. This division has led students to the…
Blog 5 March 2024

Adventures in digital parenting

There’s a picture on my father-in-law’s Facebook profile. It features my body, covered by a paper gown, my tiny son Luca, naked except a diaper and a knitted hat, and the smiling face of my partner. It is a snapshot…
Blog 5 March 2024

On their own merit

Stepping into university life as a first-generation student brings both excitement and challenges. It’s a delicate balancing act, managing academic pressures, personal expectations, and the persistent fear of not measuring up in a terrain where each step seems fraught with…
Blog 8 February 2024

Tattoo memory

One of my earliest memories of Morocco concerns my great-aunt Fatima. I must have been aged four or five, but I can still see her fragile, wrinkly face as she stood in front of my sister and me in the…
Blog 29 January 2024

‘Generation of Misfortune’

The term Generation of Misfortune refers to the majority of current students (including myself) who studied between 2015 and 2023 and were under the student loan system. Many consider us part of this so-called Generation of Misfortune. Personally, I believe…
Blog 19 December 2023

The importance of free discussion on-campus

Last year, in the Netherlands, strong, organised student protests led to the government reforming the student loan system to a version of pre-2015. To this day, regular protests regarding housing are held frequently to draw attention to the ongoing housing…
Blog 27 November 2023

Keep on supporting the underdog

I dropped out of my first study. Admitting this perhaps doesn’t instill confidence in my abilities, though I would say otherwise. Progressing in spite of adversity is a feat that I am proud to have achieved. So just how did…
Blog 20 November 2023

Let’s watch a Woody Allen movie

For me, filmmaker Woody Allen is one of the few who wonderfully merges the light-hearted and the heavy side of life. His witty characters, often a projection of Allen himself, are always searching for something in life. What am I…
Column & Blog 19 November 2023

Care for our most vulnerable

Since the beginning of life, disability has existed, whether it be through genetic variation or illness or injury. Archaeological evidence dating throughout Prehistory shows that those within early hominid societies who lived with disabilities were well cared for, and disabled…
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