Teacher Talk - Professor Emami-Namini
Teacher Talk is back, and this time we talk to Professor Julian Emami-Namini, lecturer for the double degree bachelor course International Economics and academic director of the Masters program International Economics. In this episode, we talk to him...
Are student residences in Kralingen really safe?
This incident occurred in November 2020. The identity of the victim is left undisclosed for security reasons. In the wee hours of the night, the moths circled the streetlights restlessly. The air remained thick and foggy with an undefined anxiety. ...
Covid-19 and Cybersecurity
Covid-19 has altered the workplace significantly, and possibly in a permanent manner. While the world’s attention has been fixated on the medical and economic repercussions, an important consequence has gone relatively unnoticed: the rise of cybercri...
Now that Christmas spirit is slowly dying down, you might be in a creative slump as to how to spend the remainder of your holidays. Given the recent lockdown in the Netherlands, the amount of places to go during Christmas has greatly thinned out. How...
Christmas is round the corner and in its spirit, the Estimator introduces you to some local Christmas foods in our native countries. Athaya, Indonesian I don’t really celebrate Christmas, but fortunately, I get to reap all the Christmas benefits be...
In part 2 of the Welcommittees, we present the six other committees at FAECTOR, starting with...The Estimator! ESTIMATOR 1. Briefly tell us what your committee does. We exercise our verbal muscles and keep the citizens of FAECTOR entertained and ...
In the beginning of the academic year, FAECTOR gained a lot of new active members. We would like to introduce them to you per committee! As we have so many new committees, we will introduce them in 2 parts. We asked the committees some questions to g...
Boris went and did it again, didn’t he? LOCKDOWN. He loves that word. To add to the spooky element of Halloween on the 31st of October, he announced with sheer grandiose the new lockdown measures which came into effect on the 3rd of November. From th...
Looking for the next book to read can be quite the challenge, but don’t fret; the Estimator’s got you covered. We’ve selected an ample handful of books ranging across a wide variety of genres to keep you covered. Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubne...
Starting university is always a very exciting time. New school, new city, making new friends… but bring corona into this and the whole thing collapses into an unstructured mess. Besides a whole new way of learning, there is now a whole new online sys...
When Covid-19 thunderbolted into the Netherlands in late February, international students were left especially vulnerable as most of us had to scramble home within mere hours or risk being stuck in Rotterdam indefinitely and with no sight of our fate...
The 54th board of FAECTOR had many unexpected challenges to deal with. How did they overcome these and manage to make the most of their board year? We talked to them as they reflect on the past year. Daniel Allick 1. What is your favorite memory o...
Continuing our “People with Passion” saga, we interviewed Silas Kay, a second year student studying Econometrics/Economics at Erasmus who plays the Saxophone. 1. Could you give us a brief description about yourself? My name is Silas Kömen and I’m ...