scintilla

‘Scintilla’s commissie voor mensen die de verkeerde studie hebben gekozen Arago’, in short s.c.v.m.d.d.v.s.h.g. Arago or just S.V. Arago. If you have never heard of them, they are the study association for Applied Physics and a proud committee of Scintilla. You may have seen their board on the last committee market or heard them join in our ‘proost’ during a constitution drink. How did this start? Have they really been a committee of Scintilla? Or is this one of the student legends that everyone takes as a fact? At the Vonk we tried to find out how the story fits the history!

Dear Vonk reader, We’re already well into 2024, and I’ve already well passed the period for holiday wishes, so I’ll leave them out. We can take some time to look back on an eventful previous year, but I’d rather look forward to the current. Because even though a lot has already happened in the past few weeks, this year still has many things in store. Personally, I am looking forward most to the Batavierenrace coming May. ...

Last December we had another wonderful Christmas Dinner. To remember it fondly here are some of our favourite photos.

Dear Vonk reader, The months are whizzing by as it felt to me the academic year had only just started. But already “All I want for Christmas” can be heard on the radio and the “zwartepietendiscussie” has started up again, signalling to me the start of the holiday season. Of course the holiday season also brings a lot of fun things, like the Sinterklaas celebration. Where you can go passing around some trash (or actual gifts) while putting all your effort and creativity into crafting a hopefully beautiful ‘surprise’ and writing a poem that actually rhymes. ...

Since I was gone for a while I decided to ask the board what happened this quartile while I was gone. Apparently a lot can happen while you are gone, so I decided to compile this summary in case more people missed anything. First of all this quartile was of course the start of the academic year, which also meant a new board. They have been hard at work for over two months already, but you can read more about them in the Meet the Board article and next week’s article. ...

About once every two years a group of students from Electrical Engineering at the UT go on a study trip. They travel to different regions in the world and visit companies as well as universities there, getting a better understanding of the culture of the region and the work that is done by the visited organisations. In this article the current SPOCK committee will give an update on the ongoing study trip.