Bacchus

Bacchus: I Wouldn’t Trade One Stupid Decision // For Another Five Years of Life

I’m 15 years old when I take the bus with my middle school best friend. Our companionship is one forged out of proximity; being the…

Jules KotowiczDecember 26, 2025

Bacchus Spiegeloog 440: Performance

Bacchus: Performance, the inevitable mediator between the self and the world

Is there more to our identity beyond the one we perform? Or are we just pure act? I always struggled with how I presented myself…

Sandra HernándezNovember 14, 2025

Bacchus Spiegeloog 439: Balance

Bacchus: Work in Progress

I’ve been working on this Bacchus at a laundromat in Vienna, my friend’s house in Geneva, and on the train to my parents heading to…

Laura SpringerJuly 4, 2025

Bacchus Spiegeloog 438: Chaos

Bacchus: Chaos in our time

The daily liturgy of conversation for our generation is rooted in a familiar fatigue. We are the insecure survivors of a pandemic who find ourselves…

Shriya BangMay 16, 2025

Bacchus Spiegeloog 437: Direction

Bacchus: I’m a Little Lost with What I Want in Life, but I’m Okay

I felt like I'd hit rock bottom, then another trap door opened, and I plunged further into despair. I had lost so many things that…

Sara Fontecha MorganMarch 28, 2025

Bacchus Spiegeloog 436: Risk

Bacchus: Risk

Isn’t it true that we feel most alive and happy when we push ourselves, giving ourselves the chance to stumble into new sources of meaning,…

Shriya BangJanuary 17, 2025

Bacchus Spiegeloog 435: Fantasy

The Fantasy Is Now

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

Bacchus Spiegeloog 434: Transformation

Bacchus: Diplomas in Hand, Change in Mind

“Be the change you wish to see in the world”. This renowned quote by Mahatma Gandhi resonates at countless graduation ceremonies worldwide. When asking my…

Katie ZankelOctober 9, 2024

Bacchus Spiegeloog 433: Control

Throw Spaghetti at a Wall and See What Sticks

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

Bacchus Spiegeloog 432: Fragile

Bacchus: What Now?

I often find myself walking a tightrope, balancing a set of weights in both hand. One side holds all the things I never did; the…

Evita EgertApril 19, 2024

Bacchus Spiegeloog 431: Disconnect

Bacchus: Parallel Universes

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

Bacchus Spiegeloog 430: Love

Bacchus: I Wanna Know What Love Is

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

Bacchus News & opinion Spiegeloog 429: Explore

Bacchus: Belonging Everywhere, Yet Nowhere: Exploring Who I Am

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

Bacchus News & opinion Spiegeloog 428: Alive

Bacchus: The Feeling of Being Alive

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

Bacchus News & opinion Spiegeloog 427: Anomalies

Bacchus: Here’s How We Solve Climate Change

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

Bacchus News & opinion Spiegeloog 426: Liberation

Bacchus: Building a Life, Not a Resume

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

Bacchus News & opinion Spiegeloog 425: Vision

Bacchus: The Grass is So Green on My Side

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

Bacchus News & opinion Spiegeloog 424: Irrational

Bacchus: Stream of Consciousness

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

Bacchus News & opinion Spiegeloog 423: Pride

Bacchus: Mosaics

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

Bacchus News & opinion Spiegeloog 422: Solace

Bacchus: DIY

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

Bacchus News & opinion Spiegeloog 421: Reflections

Bacchus: Friendship Makeovers

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

Bacchus News & opinion Spiegeloog 419: Harmony

Bacchus: Harmony is overrated

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

Bacchus News & opinion Spiegeloog 418: Time

Bacchus: Another round

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

Bacchus News & opinion Spiegeloog 417: Science

Bacchus: What Is Critical Thinking

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

Bacchus News & opinion Spiegeloog 416: Language

Bacchus: Everyone Should Learn to Code

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