News & opinion

News & opinion Society Spiegeloog 414: Rise Terra

Terra: The Eco-Anxious Youth

Among causing many physical damages to humans and their environment, the climate crisis is awfully influencing the mental health of many people as well. In…

Esna Mualla GunayOctober 25, 2021

Bacchus News & opinion Spiegeloog 413: Nature

Bacchus: Defying One’s ‘Nature’

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

News & opinion Science Spiegeloog 413: Nature Terra

Terra: Vegan for the Environment

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

Bacchus News & opinion Spiegeloog 412: Happiness

Bacchus: Uninterested in Happiness

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

Bacchus Culture News & opinion Spiegeloog 411: Power

Bacchus: Off the (Power) Grid

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

News & opinion Pandēmus Society Spiegeloog 411: Power

Pandēmus: UvA, we need to talk

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

Bacchus News & opinion Spiegeloog 410: Rainbows

Bacchus: Open Minds and Opinions

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

Bacchus News & opinion People Spiegeloog 409: Conflict

Bacchus: Diverging from my Doppelgänger

‘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

Bacchus News & opinion People Spiegeloog 408: Consequences

Bacchus: Toward More Desirable Consequences

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

Bacchus News & opinion People Spiegeloog 407: Motivation

Bacchus: Tales and Tools of Motivation

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

International Classroom News & opinion Spiegeloog 407: Motivation

International Classroom – UvA/VU Collaboration with Huawei

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

Bacchus News & opinion People Spiegeloog 406: The Unknown

Bacchus: A Silver Lining

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

International Classroom News & opinion Spiegeloog 406: The Unknown

International Classroom: Starting Psychology in a Pandemic

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

Bacchus News & opinion People Spiegeloog 405: Together

Bacchus: Driven Apart Together

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

International Classroom News & opinion Spiegeloog 405: Together

International Classroom: Application and Admission in Corona Times

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

Bacchus News & opinion People Spiegeloog 404: Experience

Bacchus: Reconciling Experiences and Textbooks

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

International Classroom News & opinion Spiegeloog 404: Experience

International Classroom: Is online education the future?

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

Bacchus News & opinion People Spiegeloog 403: Global

Bacchus: Third Culture Kids

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

International Classroom News & opinion Spiegeloog 403: Global

International Classroom: Was UvA’s apology to pedo-activist Maatman necessary?

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

Bacchus News & opinion People Spiegeloog 402: Appearances

Bacchus: Appearances in Amsterdam

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

International Classroom News & opinion Spiegeloog 402: Appearances

International Classroom: Raising Awareness on Diversity

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

Bacchus News & opinion People Spiegeloog 401: Dreams

Bacchus: The Figurative Dreamer

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

International Classroom News & opinion Spiegeloog 400: Psychology & Writing

International Classroom: Changes in the Psychology Department

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

Bacchus News & opinion People Spiegeloog 400: Psychology & Writing

Bacchus: The Drainage Effect

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

Bacchus News & opinion People Spiegeloog 399: Attention

Bacchus: Do We Care?

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