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Me, Myself and Somaye #2: Facing Phobias
Me, Myself and Somaye chronicles the experiences of an international student coming directly from Iran, who had never been to another country, started college a few years later than average, and…
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Me, Myself and Somaye #2: Facing Phobias
Me, Myself and Somaye chronicles the experiences of an international student coming directly from Iran, who had never been to another country, started college a few years later than average, and…
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Souls for Linguistics
Interview with Rosemarry Orr December ’11 Issue Emiel Stegeman (’13) and Michelle Jaconette (Exchange) When University College Utrecht graduates go to Oxford, their accent is immediately recognized by their…
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Me, Myself and Somaye #1: Pub Crawl
Me, Myself and Somaye chronicles the experiences of an international student coming directly from Iran, who had never been to another country, started college a few years later than average, and…
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Where’s My Wikipedia Article?
An Exploration of my Generation By Folke Eikmeier (’12) Wednesday night, researching for my thesis, reading the Wikipedia article on 1989 — a historic year full of watershed moments. In…
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Somaye’s Cooking Corner #1: Ab Gousht
By Somaye Dehban (’07) Recipe #1: “Ab Gousht” (literally: “Meat Water”). Traditional Iranian Dish Ab Gousht is a category of dishes which is made in every Iranian house and is…
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Good Sleep, Good Life
MedCo explains By Valeria Boers Trilles (’13) Have you ever felt like you have twice as much work for the amount of…
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The Meaning of Life
By Gerard van Vugt (’12) In 1930, John Maynard Keynes made a prediction. Within a century, he claimed, technological progress and increased productivity would have shortened the average workweek to…
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Love: A Matter of Economics
By Bas Heerma van Voss (’12) For several months now my grandmother has been living in a home for the elderly. We do not take care of here. We visit…
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On the Beauty that Resides in Asking a Question
By Lotte van Weerd (’13) The statement ‘everything is economics’ has challenged me tremendously to share my thoughts on this most interesting, broad and controversial statement. I feel that this…
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Smartphone Killed My Free Time
By Adine Rooyackers (’08) So am I happy? The answer to that question is as clear as a blue sky on a winter’s morning. No, I am not. It’s official:…
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Back to Sea
Loretta van der Horst was traveling through Chile when one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history shook the country. A severed horse’s head, tickled by a swarm…
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Tokyo Aftersway
Wendelien Hebly remembers the 2011 Japan earthquake, and how the social media were a mixed blessing in the aftermath. It was dark outside when I finally decided to try…
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Artist – Roeland Verhallen
Roeland Verhallen (‘10) is currently doing an M.Phil at the University of Cambridge. You can find more of his photography at: www.roelandverhallen.com Tweet
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Your Medical Career
In part one of this two-part story, Teun van der Bom recounts the trials and tribulations of a quasi-fictional, semi-autobiographical alter ego who is trying to become a good doctor….
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Featured Artist – Vera Scepanovic
Vera Scepanovic (’05) continued her studies in political science at the Central European University in Budapest. She is currently a PhD student at the CEU studying industrial development in East…
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“Ama Gonna Togo Ghana”
Ama van Dantzig daydreams about a better Ghana. Eight months ago, a huge wave of Afro-euphoria washed me up on the shores of Ghana. I was certain this…
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Artists – Elitsa Mateva & Bojan Opacak
Bojan and Elitsa took the photos that appear throughout this edition of Post during a holiday in Croatia using a double exposure effect. Elitsa Mateva (‘09) completed a masters…
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Contrasts in UCU’s international collaboration
UCU’s dean, Rob van der Vaart, updates you on UCU’s international collaboration and invites you to join him in a strategic dialogue. ontrasts, oppositions, contradictions – they can be found…
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From Campus to Campus
Naomi Becht and Derk van der Woude are in Dublin, Ireland, working for Google, a big company that started as a “search engine” on the “internet”. University life was over…
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Cheers to a New Nation!
Bodil Dronkers is hesitantly optimistic about the future of the Republic of South Sudan. (Photos by Arsenie Coseac) I climb into the passenger seat of the old, beat-up white…
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President Romney
Kiran Coleman tells you why Mitt Romney will beat Barack Obama in 2012’s race for the office of U.S. president. We might as well face it now, Mitt Romney, the…
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Artist – Aafke Schaapherder
Photography / Aafke Schaapherder (’05) ::: www. aafkeschaapherder.com www.flickr.com/photos/lumbaa Tweet
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Artist – Yoav Magid
Photography / Yoav Magid (’06) ::: Besides being one of the most beautiful places I’ve visited, Costa Rica is also one of the smartest. They got rid of their army…
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