Posted in December 2013

aaaaand there goes another month. The end of the year is near! If it weren’t for the invention of the calendar, I would not believe it.

But before we start talking about the end of the year.. let’s begin with where we left off. Because a couple days after my last blog post, the TU Delft organised the Master Event for the second time this year.
(http://www.tudelft.nl/en/study/master-of-science/come-en-meet-us/master-event/)

At this event, a lot of student from the TU Delft come to the auditorium to get more information about the master they might want to do. It is mainly used to gain more knowledge about the different choices you can make after you finish your Bachelor.

Since I am in the second year of the Applied Mathematic master, it was my job to inform the students about my master. Which is quite fun to do! Especially when people are already really enthousiastic about math and want to hear more about the job opportunities.

– Oh, by the way! I passed the course Bio Environmental Statisics with a nice grade 🙂 Two more courses left! –

Later in the month november a friend from my rowing crew… (Did I already mention that I am a former rower? Which I have done intensively for 2 years at Proteus-Eretes? Well… now you know)… celebrated his 25th aniversiry with a 25-diner. So, the whole crew went to his parents for a delicious diner and some good wine.  It was really nice to see everyone again, because it is hard to keep in touch when you are studying and having all kind of other obligations.

And some days after that.. we entered the month december.. the last one of the year. The month with the celebration of St. Nicholas, Christmas days, snow (?) and lots of family time.

This year there was (again) a lot of commotion around the whole ‘celebration’ of St. Nicholas. Maybe most of you already know it, but just to give a summary of the situation:

– St. Nicholas is one person and is white;

– He has a lot of accomplices, called ‘zwarte pieten’ and they are ‘painted’ brown/black.

And that is where the trouble starts. I do not want to go into this any deeper, you can choose the side you want to be in.. or just don’t bother at all and leave it be.

The night with my family (+the girlfriend of my brother!) on the 5th of december was a lot of fun. Got some really well thought presents, like a book about mathematics… Always a good gift.

I could go on and tell you about all the other stuff I did.. but I rather share a nice video.. It is about running.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F7T1EGSoMQ[/youtube]

With this video I would like to introduce the end of this post. The last post of 2013. Good luck with making your new years resolutions, but never forget that you don’t need a ‘new year’ to change your habits. If you really want to make a change, start today. Start now.