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Another round of master speed dates are just around the corner. The 22nd of March you can talk to current master students to help make your choice of what to do after your bachelors! At the Vonk we want to take you back to the previous session and share with you the experience of choosing a master. We might have all felt overloaded with choices of what we can do in our future. ...

On February 1st, 2022 the new E.T.S.V. Scintilla website was launched. A process that has been worked on for more than the last two years. Last week an article was published about our new website, which can be found here. Now it is time to look back to the now old website, which was launched in 2008. The reason to create a new website Before 2008, the website ran on the webserver called Roxen. ...

Finally, it is here! After more than 10 years, Scintilla is getting a completely new website. As the old website has quite a 00’s feel, DIGI (Scintilla’s committees Webteam and SOT) and the board felt it was time for a modern looking website to better present herself digitally. After the introduction of TOM, the amount of time DIGI-members could spend on the website and digital systems of Scintilla has decreased. While attempts have been made to create a new website from scratch, they have not succeeded so far, until now. ...

In the spring of 2019 it was possible to sign up for a study tour to Japan. After some interviews I was one of the lucky 26 persons who could join the group. The plan was to go to Japan in the fall of 2020, but because of a well-known reason this trip was postponed. Eventually we had to make the decision to change our destination to a bit safer and closer: Europe. ...

On 06-11-2021 the Scintilla website was unreachable for several hours. Three days later, the same thing happened again, and again a few days later. What happened? Due to several well-targeted DDoS-attacks, spread over several days, the Scintilla website was down for many hours in a row. During these attacks, Scintilla’s members were not able to sign-up for activities, use their web-mail, access the VPN or access files. In this edition of the Vonk, you read all about what a DDoS-attack is, how it could cripple Scintilla’s systems and what is being done to prevent these problems in the future. ...

They are hung around the necks of the brand new board members every change GMM, they are visible on every board photo. Yet very little is known about them, despite the fact that when handed over to the new board members a story is told about why each one belongs to a specific board position. I’m talking, of course, about Scintilla’s chains of office. During my period as part of a candidate board it became clear that the chains of office were no longer insured. ...