December | 31st Board

Sup people, we are back at it once again back at it. December was quite an eventful month for us and for most people around. In December we had an excellent ice-skating event filled with great activities at a very good price. We also had a stress-management workshop with our brothers, which was quite useful. And then we got to our good old PubQuiz, this time we had a different venue, which turned out to be a pleasantful surprise. Then begun the exam week, quite packed and interesting as everyone was busy cramming away to pass the exams. But something to look forward to was our Board Christmas dinner, Valentijn and I were in charge of the starters. And in my humble opinion, we did a spectacular job, and so did the rest of the Board (but we were better). To round off December, I went back home to the Hague for my holidays. For NYE’s I ended up spending it with our old president Javier Sanmartin Martinez. Hope you all had a good break, as well! And genuinely looking forward to the next coming year.

Stay Blessed,

Rutvik

Happy New Year everybody!! I enjoyed December so much, mainly because I love the Christmas vibes that were all over Maastricht. I unfortunately was not able to attend a lot of the Helix events :(. In my defense, I was very busy studying and celebrating my birthday. I did join a workshop on event organisation and promotion. Also, the Board surprised me with the best party (and they made me give a slightly embarrassing presentation about myself during our Board Meeting). The week before the break I was mainly studying unfortunately, and I was happy to see many of our members were also very focussed on their exams. I have to say, I missed my fellow board members a bit during the break. I had the pleasure to meet our President for 10 minutes at the train station in Eindhoven, but he made me miss my train. Other than that I very much enjoyed the break and I hope all of you did too. I am very much looking forward to the rest of the year, there are some exciting things to look forward to, can’t wait!! 

See ya next month <3

Lisanne

Hello lovely people, Happy New Year and I hope you enjoyed the break! We organised quite a few Christmassy events, but there were also some more serious things in the mix. The Randwyck associations organised a Stress Management workshop where a UM psychologists gave us tips and tricks on how to handle stress in our daily lives. I also attended a very important and informative though not very amusing workshop with some of my fellow board members about Suicide prevention. And now to move on to the fun parts, we organised a Helix Christmas week, where we did a shoe drop event for Saint Nick’s day. The activities committee organised a very fun ice skating event, where I managed to not break all my bones. That week was finished off strong by the Wellbeing committee handing out pancakes for Purple Friday. As Board we also organised a gift exchange/Secret Santa event. Before I went into hibernation to study for my exam, I attended the BBS1002 Pubquiz organised by the Education committee at Kaleido, which was a great success too. To finish off the Year, we held a dinner as Board after our exams, to celebrate all our achievements in 2023.

Let’s see what fun events and challenges 2024 holds for us!

Cheers, Maïté

Hello and welcome back to this month’s monthly update. I hope you guys had a enjoyable month, I sure had. It all started with a Social Safety workshop, where I learned and better understood how to create a safe space for everyone to enjoy. Thereafter, was another workshop, where me, a few other board members and our Person of Confidence Lexi learned about suicide prevention. Continuing the month of workshops, Helix, together with the other associations of Randwyck, hosted the ‘How to manage stress’ workshop. Unfortunately, I could not attend this workshop myself, but I hoped many of you did and learned quite a bit. Furthermore, the cold and christmas spirit was of course celebrated with our ice-skating event at the christmas market and our secret santa event. Now I am looking forward to what January will bring. Wish you all the best of luck and let’s make 2024 a great year

Toedels

Oguz

Hii,

I think they should make the Christmas break longer… 

Now that we are all back and well rested, I wish everyone a Happy New Year! December went by so fast, we started with a beautiful Helix Christmas week with a skating event at the Magical Village in the city center, had pancakes for purple Friday from the Wellbeing committee and finished up with out bimonthly PubQuiz at Kaleido. Juggling my studies and the board, we went through the first round of mid-period course evaluations for all the Student Evaluation Panels. For January, we have many meetings scheduled regarding the SEP and coordinator meetings, which I am looking very much forward to. And now its almost time to start looking for a new Candidate Board! Oo so exciting.

All the luck, happiness and health for 2024,

Barbora

Hey everyone, I hope you enjoyed the holidays! We started December off with the ice skating event. We had a great time at the christmas market, where we, besides ice skating, could go on the ferris wheel and also got some drinks. On the day after we celebrated Purple Friday, where everyone who passed by the Helix room in something purple could get a free pancake. The week after, we had the pubquiz, which I hope helped the firsties pass their second exam of the school year. Next it was exam week and of course the Christmas break after that. I’m excited to get back to it again and I hope to see you all in the upcoming events as well!

Loes

Hey everyone, hope you all enjoyed December, the most whimsical of all the months! To celebrate the holidays and get in the christmas spirit with an ice skating event at the christmas market and a gift exchange in the Helix room :). Meanwhile all the first years were faced with their BBS1002 exams, the first of the spooky courses in my opinion. But not to worry; we got their backs with another lovely pubquiz at Kaleido! I hope everyone passed their exams before going back home for the holidays. That was about it, hope you all enjoy 2024 and manage to fight off those seasonal saddies.

Valentijn

Hi beautiful 😉 . I hope the break went well for you, that you got to enjoy these two weeks to relax, eat good food (hopefully) and just unwind. It is already 2024, time does move fast. Anyways, let’s take some time to reflect on what happened in December: it started great with the Helix Christmas week where some Helix members decorated their “shoes” for Sinterklaas, it was fun to see the inner children pop out in them. The 7th Activities organised a ice-skating event where they got to ice skate, see the ferris wheel and walk around the Christmas market, I heard it was a big hit, I was busy getting BoC points with the Travel committee ;P.  For the purple friday, the well-being committee made pancakes and brought them to the Helix room. The 11th was our amazing secretary, Lisanne’s birthday so we ofc celebrated her! Since December is the exam period, the Education committee held a pubquiz in a new venue this time: Kaleido instead of the usual D’n Hiemel, we might be returning for future events… And finally it was exam week, so not much Helix things going on at all, fingers crossed we all passed !

See you in January!

Mylena