Watchables 3
The new school year just started and most of us are already busy studying. It’s important to relax and of course (binge) watch some tv shows and movies, especially before the block gets busier and exams approach. We’ve made a list of the movies and t...
Into the Business - Flow Traders
For this edition of ‘Into the Business’, Estimator travelled to Amsterdam to interview Laurens Snijer, a graduated econometrician who is currently working as a trader at Flow Traders. How did you get this job at Flow Traders? I studied Econometr...
Study Tips
Every year a new group of econometricians come into EUR, and, inevitably, a few of those econometricians leave EUR. Since the prospects of success might seem daunting to new students, Estimator has compiled a few study tips to make going through the ...
The TESTimator is a new rubric in which we try out many different foods, drinks and places for you, such that you do not have to go to the bad ones anymore. In this first edition, we had to go for one of the primary necessities for almost every econ...
Rotterdam has a lot to offer, and we all very much enjoy the variety of activities you can do in the city. However, you might sometimes long for a day out of town (and the library). Or maybe you just seek an excuse to not study for a day. An amusemen...
What do Italians, Greeks and Portuguese have that we, in Rotterdam, don’t? Tourism during summer? We’re getting warmer. Beaches? Even warmer. Hot weather? Warmer. It’s the sun! Throughout the year and especially during the winter months, southern cou...
If you are Dutch and active on YouTube, you might have come across a video from Joardy Film. This youtuber makes videos as his alter ego Joardy (who is dry as a bone) and one of my favorite videos is the one where he is asked “waar moet jij van Huilo...
For this edition of ‘Into the Business,’ Estimator travelled to Amsterdam to interview Xinzheng Huang, member of the market risk model validation team at ING. The market risk model validation team is responsible for validating a wide range of mo...
The summer holidays have already started! While we all have different interests, hobbies and responsibilities, one thing that we can all share is our love for travelling. Everyone enjoys discovering new places, whether you are travelling to a new Dut...
There are plenty of employees working at the Erasmus University, but there seems to be no one as popular as the woman after whom the FAECTOR office coffee machine is named: Henriëtte! If you ever treat yourself with a nice lunch in Etude, you’ll defi...