Things are heating up

Things are heating up, in two ways. First off, we found out the dorm has floor heating. This is quite nice in winter I suppose, but due to the fact that they simply turned it on throughout the building without an option to turn it off is a bit less pleasant. Second, midterms are coming up: I’ll have two next week and one in the week afterwards. Besides that, I’ve made some decisions regarding my future in the last week.

It’s been a while since I last wrote a blog, and that has one simple reason: not that much happened. I went to a soccer match, South-Korea versus Poland which turned out to be free for foreigners which was a great surprise, but besides that it’s been same old, same old. I did have one exam already a while back, for which I got a 9,25 so that was nice. However, that only was the average of the whole class so it is not very special. Also, since final grades are given here based on a comparative scale, meaning the top-something percent will get an A or A+ and the next something percent a B or B+ et cetera, this result would not translate into a 9,25 back home. Besides the aforementioned soccer match, nothing major really happened, I’ve just been going to classes, socializing, doing assignments and studying. Next week I’ll have two midterms and the week after that I’ll have another one, so these days most of my time dedicated to studying. I’ll write an update after my midterms on how they went.

Besides the studying for my current programme, I’ve also made a decision about what I want to do after my bachelor. I’ve applied for a Research Master in Business at Tilburg University and have been busy with getting all the required documents for this (such as recommendation letters, a motivation letter, etc.) although the deadline is only February 1^st. Most notably, I have been able to get a recommendation letter from one of my professors here, who is also the dean of the economics faculty here. I’ve also had lunch with him, which was very nice and something I normally wouldn’t do back in Tilburg, where I hardly ever had any real interaction with any of the professors.

I guess that’s it for this blog, maybe I’ll have some nice updates after my midterms, as I plan to go somewhere nice at least once to relax and wind down from these relatively stressful times.