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
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
‘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
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…
Quinty MarsSeptember 25, 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
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…
Néstor Narbona ChulviMay 31, 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
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
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
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
Back in the days when I tried the study Applied Psychology for a year, I ambitiously started with an internship at an organization whose mission…
Elise van GravenDecember 30, 2019
I’ve been a student for almost seven years now, and studying has certainly been an expensive endeavor. I am finally about to graduate. So where…
Martin VerloopSeptember 2, 2019
On warm spring days like today, Amsterdam, along with the flowers, starts to blossom again. Sunny terraces fill up with joyful people, the city beach…
Julius DullaertJuly 3, 2019