People, Its been 6 months since my last post. Its 5AM in the morning and this post which was long over due will be out today in any case. Was at a party till now. Not sure how long I can stay awake, have a class @ 8:45 in the morning. Even though I've not changed much in last 6 months my co-ordinates surely have changed. Am in Delft now chasing my dream, pursuing my Masters @ TU Delft, The Netherlands.
Netherlands
's famous for dairy product, especially for cheese.. Yeah I know everybody would
know this. Talking about the people here, they are very straight forward. If they don't like you they would tell it right on your face. If they cannot do something they would say they can't do it. 'Will try' 'may be I'll do it' are not the part of their responses. Dutch are very very punctual. 15:00 is always 15:00 and not 15:05 for a Dutch. Dutch male/female are athletic, very tall and strongly built. Females are really attractive.
Enuf of the place..
Am liking being back as a student again. Its lil bit different this time compared to my Bachelors. New friends, new place, different mode of teaching, new ways of tackling problems, different lifestyle etc etc etc....
DelFT??
For the people who don't where D
elft is, its in The Netherlands. Ring any bells? Holland!! n
e had informed them about our flight]. Still, that was a nice feeling. Hadn't heard from any of my friends where they were received by the people from college on their arrival at the place. Then we were taken to our college stall [a small setup by TU Delft] where we were greeted by the faculty/International office members. We did get a backpack filled with food and drinks. Also, we received keys to our apartments. This part of the 'introduction week' program was called 'meet and greet' program.ow? Orange coloured T wearing cricket team in the world cup..? Did you get it already? If still having a problem please get a
map or revisit your middle grade geography classes. :) Netherlands is a Dutch speaking nation. Delft is a small city. In fact, very small. All the cities here are kinda miniaturized as country itself is pretty small.. Know what? you can travel across the country in train in just '3' hours. It must be as big as Goa.. As far as the history goes, most of the Netherlands was submerged under the water. So these people pumped the water into the ocean, constructed a barricade and have brought the land up. That why you'll get to see canals running all over the places in any city in Netherlands. Marine technology is very much advanced here and its one of the most sought after course.
It was 20:00 hrs when we lan
ded in Amsterdam. Another half an hour before we collected our luggages. Would you believe if I say that there were personnels from college [TU Delft] to receive us @ the airport. Yes, I'm not kidding. There were 2 seniors [students from 2nd yr Masters program] wearing TU Delft T-shirt and campus tag holding a placard waiting for the new students. It felt good to having been received by the college. They even knew when/how many of us were coming [Of course w
Introduction week???
What's this introduction week, you wonder? Our first week in Delft [till Aug31st starting Aug
22nd] was termed 'Introduction week'. During this week we didn't have any classes but we had lotsa activities. This week indeed tur
ned out to be 'introduction week'. I did meet lotta people. I met my country men/women
and people from other parts of the world. This provided the needed opportunity to know people especially from other nations whom we wouldn't have talked to or would have taken som-time to talk to. You can say it was a week for socializing.
What really happened that week?
All international students were divided into different groups, each of 12 students. Care was taken that no two students from same nation ended in same group [Of c
ourse its not possible to have this configuration maintained for all the groups as Chinese and Indians dominated the international student population]. Each group had a mentor who was a second year Master student. There were events like salsa workshop, Dutch food tasting, city market tours, Quick fix food, DJ nite, Live band plays etc etc.... There were sessions organised to explain about the usage/working of health/hospital facility in Netherlands and in Delft, session on presentation skills, Belbin theo
ry and Hofstede theory. Sports session was conducted to display the range of sports/games our Sports club facilitates.
Then we were given a topic on which all the group members were asked to discuss and do the presentation or play act or a video or compose a song. The topic was 'Multicultural differences'. This's when we really got to know about the things that were never common in India but they were in other places. It was a fun exercise [Of course it got boring when we were to discuss the same thing for hours :)]. We did make short videos bout the differences in traffic rules and the public's mentality about the traffic in different nations and embedded them in slide presentation.
Great place for over all personality development
I was amazed to see the
range of sports that I can train myself in for a very cheap price. Training in games like f
encing and golf are rarely seen in other universities. Not interested in Sports but interested in cultural activities then TU Delft has something for you too.. Cultural center supported by TU Delft is pretty good. Want to improve your writing skills, improve your oratory skills, wanna be a good story teller, wanna tap you feet to Salsa, wanna impress your girl playing guitar or your guy by playing drums, wanna know how to click good photos using your crappy camera? Then cultu
ral center is the answer for you. You can get trained in any/all of these by being a member at a throw away price.
Are you a geek
and not interested in any of the above then TU Delft is a place for you too.. How?? TU Delft is one of the very few universities to have the following
- Sophisticated nano science labs to develop nano structures
- Class-1000 foundry to fabricate your IC
- Wind tunnel to test the plane you design
- Research nuclear reactor to observe the cause-effect at sub atomic levels
- Very good relationship with the industry
- Top notch professors in certain fields
- Really sophisticated and advanced researc projects going on
Be a geek or wanna enjoy while you learn, TU Delft is the place to be [Might be one of the, but for me it is].
To b cntd.... Dunno whn :)
