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
It is well known that the climate crisis is advancing at an alarming level and most people think anything that reduces our carbon footprint should…
Esna Mualla GunaySeptember 22, 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
Photo by Sandra SchönAlmost a year ago, I was forced to take a lunch break as my unstable internet connection made it impossible to watch…
Anne Sophie GiacobelloApril 19, 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
‘Why don’t you wear a nametag? One of you should really cut your hair shorter. Wait! Don’t tell me, let me guess.’ These are just…
Avanti VijayFebruary 17, 2021
Sometimes it feels to me that science is like a fortress to people who are not directly contributing to it, unknown and a little bit…
Milena KaprálováDecember 17, 2020
From some perspective, I am a motivational failure. Every day is filled with opportunities that I could take and with tasks that I have to…
Valentin WeberNovember 4, 2020
By the end of August, University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Vrije Universiteit (VU) confirmed that they will be collaborating with the multinational Chinese technology company…
Julius DullaertSeptember 30, 2020
So far, this year has been everything I did not expect. I expected 2020 to be about flying cars and upgrading our brains to X-ray…
Evita EgertSeptember 25, 2020
In comparison to previous years, many things have changed for this year’s batch of psychology students. Besides the obvious shift to online learning, alternative online…
Lydia TianAugust 31, 2020
In these times of strict measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus, I find it hard to determine whether people are being driven apart…
Julius DullaertJune 26, 2020
Not only have current UvA students experienced changes in their education due to the corona crisis, but prospective students are affected by this, too. Since…
Lisanne van der VeldenJune 3, 2020
Psychology has had a pretty long journey. The study of the human mind and behavior started more than two millennia ago. Greek philosophers had arguments…
Evita EgertMay 31, 2020
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you have noticed that quite a few things have changed recently. More or less abruptly, the Dutch…
Valentin WeberMay 4, 2020
For the longest time, I thought I would never find people who understood what it’s like knowing, living in and embodying more than one culture.…
Lydia TianMay 1, 2020
UvA invited Nelson Maatman, pedophile-activist, to give a guest-lecture for the course Sociology of Sexuality. Later, the university apologized for inviting him as they were…
Quinty MarsMarch 30, 2020
A few months ago I was sitting with my mom on the terrace of Bagels & Beans just across the street from the Roeterseilandcampus. My…
Lisanne van der VeldenMarch 27, 2020
With the recent implementation of an international bachelor at the Psychology department (since 2018-2019), the topic of diversity has become more relevant at our department.…
Lydia TianMarch 9, 2020
Everyone knows that feeling of being exhausted after a long day, with the deepest wish to forget about everything for a while and drift away…
Julius DullaertFebruary 24, 2020
Over the past few years there has been a lot of talk about budget cuts in different faculties and departments at UvA. So far, these…
Quinty MarsJanuary 20, 2020
Whenever there was a fresh face present at one of Spiegeloog’s editorial board meetings, I became somewhat self-conscious. A self-consciousness that had everything to do with what I…
Wolter de BoerJanuary 15, 2020