I think I’ve spent most of my life dreaming about the future and all that my life could be, about all the things that I…
Belle PotgerDecember 4, 2024
One bachelor's and (nearly) two master’s later, it’s finally time to graduate and say goodbye to UvA. Weirdly, I’m not as relieved about this as…
Laura SpringerMay 31, 2024
I sometimes find myself on a tightrope, balancing a set of weights. One side carries all the decisions I never made; the projects I never…
Evita EgertApril 19, 2024
I often find myself thinking or reading about life in India, where I’m from, while living in the Netherlands and feeling a strange sense of…
Nitya ShahMarch 15, 2024
In conversations with friends about our definition of love, I realised that most of us grew up with the idea that love was something that…
Laura SpringerFebruary 9, 2024
In the second year of my bachelor’s, my tutorial group and I decided to go to a bar to get to know each other better.…
Avanti VijayDecember 15, 2023
If you look at us humans as a species, if you really take an enormous step back and just describe what we do all day,…
Ann-Kathrin AruiNovember 10, 2023
Anomalies are usually triggering for us. Imagine your doctor telling you that there’s an anomaly in your blood test. You would be alarmed, would try…
Arda ErginOctober 6, 2023
A few months ago, I came home late in the evening from a busy day – I had gone to work early in the morning,…
Laura SpringerMay 29, 2023
The saying “the grass is always greener on the other side” is deeply ingrained in our minds. Someone will always have that exact thing we…
Vadim MartschenkoApril 21, 2023
Thoughts keep running through our brain, so many just make no sense at all when you look at it from the outside. Sometimes we recognise…
Nitya ShahMarch 17, 2023
I find that people want to be the one to watch in the room. The one to put forward an idea no one’s heard before,…
Anushka SabhanamFebruary 13, 2023
A couple of weeks ago, the guy I was seeing and I tried to figure out what we wanted to watch. He didn’t have anything…
Laura SpringerDecember 21, 2022
Anushka, one of our editors in chief, recommended an APA podcast on friendships. In the podcast, we learn that friendships come about when people engage…
Laura SpringerNovember 11, 2022
This week, while procrastinating to study by browsing Instagram and news websites, I came to feel like there has been an increase in articles, infographics…
Anne Sophie GiacobelloJune 26, 2022
There are many reasons why people do a (second) study or start studying at an older age than is usual. Maybe they decided to take…
Magda Matetovici and Anne Sophie GiacobelloMay 3, 2022
You know the story: You come to the university, and the first lecture is about how your programme is comprehensive and superior to any high…
Milena KaprálováMarch 24, 2022
With rapidly developing technology, the demand for skilled computer scientists is surging, or at least people with some skills in programming. Things become even more…
Milena KaprálováFebruary 11, 2022
Recently, on our last evening together before my dear friend was moving away, she said to me ‘I was telling my dad how I don’t…
Nitya ShahDecember 15, 2021
I feel like I always have the potential to rise against something. The feeling awaits within me like a flame that is ready to be…
Arda ErginNovember 12, 2021
What does it mean for something to be in one’s nature? Oftentimes, laymen refer to this as something inherent in your genes or a stable…
Lydia TianOctober 7, 2021
Here is a story we all know about: a teacher asks the class to write on a piece of paper what they want to become…
Magda MatetoviciJune 25, 2021
While you can’t travel the world physically, you can still travel it in your mind. With the pandemic exercising a lot of power on our…
Julius DullaertMay 14, 2021
Time and again, if one pays attention to it, we see how prone we are to confirmation bias and how we try to rationalise the…
Nitya ShahApril 2, 2021