After one year, PhD students at Melbourne are required to submit a progress report, make a presentation on their research so far, and get their advisory committee to complete a form (which, given my experience with academics, is probably the most difficult part). This applies to all PhDs at the uni, as they are all [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 18, 2008
From lichtstad to koekstad
Everywhere has a nickname. Some end in “stad” [nl]: Eindhoven is known as “lichtstad” because of its connection with Philips, and my destination a few weeks ago, Deventer, is known as the “koekstad”. (Being a good tourist, I purchased some of the apparently famous Deventer koek, but haven’t tried it yet.)
Deventer is also a “hanzestad” [...]
May 12, 2008
Couch potato’ing
I suppose the title is apt as the Dutch like their potatoes, in normal form and in chip form. But rather than yet another travel story, here’s a post with a staying-inside theme. And I am aware that the weather is quite nice out, but I am now over the heat and am waiting for [...]
May 4, 2008
Flowers
I managed to sleep through most of Koninginnedag this year. The weather was nowhere near as nice as last year. I managed to catch one of the rommelmarkten (where people set up stalls and sell their unwanted “rubbish” as my colleague put it) in the morning which looked a bit sad, due to the clouds [...]
