Every day, I get up in time for my lectures, sometimes they start at the nightmare time of 8.45 a.m., but if I’m lucky I get to sleep a little bit longer. Then at lunchtime, I either eat with my friends in the faculty cafeteria or I go home and have lunch with my housemates. In the afternoon, I either go to a lecture, or if I’m off that afternoon, I do something else. Sometimes, when exams are coming up, I just study until dinner and then get back to work after dinner again. But when the pressure isn’t on, there are loads of other things to do. Boring things like the laundry or clearing up your room, or fun things like watching movies, going shopping or playing sports.

Campus Life

After dinner, there’s still so much to do at the university! I have band practice on Monday night and a dancing-class on Thursday night. I’m in the band 'Ciska de Rat' and we play ska music. But there’s something for everybody: there are heavy metal bands, but there’s also an orchestra and a choir. And if your kind of music isn’t there yet, you just start your own band!

As for the dancing, I joined the association S.D.V. Chassé, where we do jazz- dance. Every Thursday night, we practise for an hour at the sports centre on campus. Chassé was only founded this year, because the girls in the Chassé board thought it was a pity there was no jazz-dance association yet. That’s what’s so amazing about the sporting facilities at the university: almost every sport you can imagine is already offered and if it isn’t yet, you can just set up an association yourself!