November 2020

Dear Teiresians,

We hope you are all still in good health and have made it through the first block without too many problems! As the year progresses, we hope you have adjusted to the new situation, even though we hope it will go back to normal before too long. As you will have seen on our social media accounts by now, we have started sharing some tips and tricks to help all of us with studying at home. We hope to see you in the events this coming month and wish you good luck with the next block of courses!

Mental Health Awareness. Over the month of November, Teiresias will be sharing tidbits and tips to help our students combat mental health struggles from studying from home, from coronavirus, from anything and everything that has affected you this year. A few students will share their own tips and tricks and struggles over the coming weeks. We’ll also have ‘series’ posts that will answer one question in Parts I, II, III, etc. We welcome any and all feedback. Feel free to post in the comments or reach out via our email. At the end of the day, we hope our posts encourage you, are a source of comfort, and that they let you know, you’re not alone in how you are feeling. We will use the hashtags: #UUGotThis #MentalHealthAwareness #SelfCareMatters #ItsOkToNotBeOk

Online Borrel. Thursday, November 12 @ 20:00 via MS Teams (link to join). Grab a drink and join your fellow RMA Students for nice conversations about your research interests, favorite books, hobbies and so on, and get to know your fellow-researchers better. We’ll have various breakout rooms aka ‘bars’ you can attend and talk in smaller groups. 

Online Movie Night. Thursday, November 26 @ 20:00 via MS Teams (link to join). Join us online for a viewing of Kingdom of Heaven. What’s not to love about this movie? Set in the 12th century, it’s got crusaders, knights, the Holy Land, leprosy, romance, Saracens, an evil future king, oh and Orlando Bloom. We’ll connect over MS Teams. Pull up a chair, couch, or bed, and hop online with a drink in hand, and join us for a movie night. (You’re welcome to wear your Templar Knight costume, but it’s not required.)

Teiresias Website. Our Teiresias website now has regular weekly updates in the ‘News’ tab. Be sure to follow along for announcements regarding online workshops, conferences, lectures, and events. An easy ‘one-stop-shop’. If you know of any online academic events happening that are not listed on our site, feel free to email us and we’ll get them posted. Our website is in both Dutch and English!

Athenaeum Bookstore & Block 2. Don’t forget we have a discount code! Athenaeum Bookstore has kindly provided a code for members of Teiresias to use in order to purchase their schoolbooks for the academic year. Please visit their bookstore here. At checkout on their site, please use code: SVTEI2021.

Valete, in name of the board,

Thomas van Tussenbroek

h.t. secretary