We are only with a few students in the Globalisation & Development
track. This is nice, as you get to know all your fellow students way easier
than in larger tracks. We attend the classes with the same small group all the
time, so you start to chat with one another more easily outside class. There
seems to be quite some connection amongst each other as outside Uni activities
are organized all the time. This week there was a gathering together at one
student’s place with food and wine. Another good example of the nice atmosphere
between the Masters students is the snow fight we had after (and between) class
a few weeks ago. The first snowflakes had fallen and everything outside looked
nice and white, a good opportunity for some fun in the snow. Almost all
students in the track joined and it took half an hour before we finally
finished our battle. All in all these things really add something to the
experience of being a student at Utrecht University.
And then to question that has been puzzling a lot of people in meantime:
Is the end of the world really approaching? If the Maya people were right with
their calendar, which would denote the end of the world on the 21th of December
in 2012, the apocalypse of the world would come today and this would
effectively be my last blog for the Utrecht University School of Economics.
However, according to Maya Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchú the whole ‘End of
the World’ story is all non-sense, which is only being made up by
sensationalist merchant people. Good news for us, as we are on the brink of
enjoying our well-deserved Christmas break.
This break will not only mean that I will gather together with friends
and family to enjoy nice food and drinks and open the presents underneath the
Christmas tree. I will have to do some catching up with reading some articles
for the courses I’m currently following and today we will receive our feedback
on the Draft version of our paper we submitted for the course Institutions,
Growth & Development. Hopefully, this will not be the end of the world.
Probably not!
For now, I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy 2013!!
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