Frank Teunisse

Wow, these were two busy weeks again! Even though I had an exam on Friday 11^th, I had quite some meeting the week before. I’m involved in a small task group researching the future of the two Master Programs, Embedded Systems and Computer Engineering. As planning with the academic staff is usually quite hard, they liked to meet in the exam period. Luckily my second exam still went somewhat okay.

Directly after the exam I had to rush to the train. I went to Maastricht, the Southernmost city of the Netherlands. My sister is studying there since September, and I never had the time to see here new room: I never even saw the City of Maastricht. The city itself was really nice, it had about the same atmosphere as Delft; pleasant people and a lot of mediaeval buildings.

As I’m leaving with the ETV study tour this Saturday, this was also the last weekend together with my girlfriend in quite some time. To celebrate this we went to a really classy restaurant. Unfortunately they weren’t quite used to my big stomach, so they were unable to entirely fill it..

This week started with the handover board meeting of the IEEE Student Branch. As I’m going to start my graduation project after my study tour, I wanted to reduce the number of additional jobs I do at the faculty. We found a motived new group, with a mix of International, Dutch, Master and PhD students.

From Tuesday one, the week was all about the study tour: it started with a symposium about the countries we are going to visit. We had a talk from the former Dutch ambassador in China, a PhD on cultural studies of South Korea, the embassy of Japan and a Professor on Asian economics. On Wednesday we had the chance to get to know all the participants and Asian food, in a wok-restaurant. All time that was left this week, I had to spend on getting ready to leave: washing and ironing my clothes, having last minutes meetings with people I won’t see for 4 weeks, etc.

As the study tour is coming closer and closer, I feel like going more and more. As I never left the western world, I think it will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Ill post my experiences when I’m back!

Kind regards!