Recently, your cooking team went on a business trip to Brussels. A great city with excellent food, welcoming cafés and exquisite beers. But not only that. The town inspired both the Anglo-Saxons and the Dutch to name a vegetable after it. The Dutch s...

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  If you are a EU citizen and you are registered in Maastricht, you are allowed to vote in the local elections. When the letter from the Municipality was in my mailbox, I was not sure whether I should really take part in the elections. After al...

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Hoewel ik van plan was een o zo originele weblog te schrijven over Sven Kramer, het kabinet of de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen, overtuigt het aantal mailtjes in mijn mailbox mij ervan dat ik een carnavalsupdate moet geven.

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On Sunday February 21st, the year of the Tiger has started. It was a coincidence that the start of the New Year or the Spring Festival as the Chinese call it, coincided with our Carnival Sunday. Because of this, we celebrated this big event already o...

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Travelling from Maastricht to my hometown Munich can be somewhat of an Odyssey. It easily takes up to 10 hours or more, at least, if you travel at short notice and cannot afford the regular price for the fast train, which is about 130 EUR one-way. Wh...

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Al enige jaren geleden maakte ik kennis met kerst-stress, Sinterklaas-stress en verjaardags-stress. Maar sinds dit jaar heb ik er nieuw fenomeen bij: carnavals-stress.

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“I would like to see a sports game like basketball or so” was my answer to the question of my Clemson host. He had made a nice program for us, but on Saturday evening January 23rd , there was a blank spot. Thus the question came what to do on Saturda...

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What is the best way to motivate people? There are three general answers to this question: Money, power and sex. What is the best way to motivate students? There are, as well, several answers: Money, alcohol and sex. Now, as the University Maas...

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Natuurlijk is het belangrijk dat studenten feedback kunnen geven op het onderwijs. Het komt een cursus uiteraard altijd ten goede als zoveel mogelijk mensen hun mening geven.

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Last week I was in Leipzig where I attended the residential week of our Euro MBA program. I decided to use the train to go to Leipzig. The trip was quite convenient: jump on the bus in Gulpen (where I live) to Aachen and then on the train to Frankfur...

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