July - August | 31st Board

Hey what’s up everyone etc., hope everyone’s doing great and has had a great summer! We as a board were working a little bit over the summer getting our stuff together to organise important events for the start of this amazing academic year. I attended INKOM, and I enjoyed it a lot, firstly as a Helix Board member it was nice to see and interact with a lot of you firsties. Secondly, just as a dude who thoroughly loves partying, I lived my fullest party life at the MECC parties. As the president, I’ve just been making sure everything is more or less being taken care of within the association. It has been an interesting experience so far, especially with the fact we did not have an approved budget all throughout the summer. Luckily, that’s been fixed now, and can’t wait to get cracking with the first events and meet more of you this year.

Till next time,

Rutvik

Hey everyone! It’s been a while, but we are back. Well, we actually never left, we got to do some board stuff over the summer. In between the vacations, I spent some time making a couple of posters and attending some fun online board meetings. After the holidays, we got to go back to uni, yay :). Thankfully, my year started out with a full week of meeting new students and attending some fun festivals and parties during INKOM. The next week was pretty chill, we attended the Bachelors’ and the Masters’ FIC where we had a lot of people trying on lab coats. It was slightly chaotic but like the good kind of chaotic and we had fun. Now, we prepared for our Extraordinary GA, the Introweek, and our Camp. I can’t wait to see the people I met during INKOM at those events, and I hope to see the rest of you soon throughout the year. 

That was it from me this time, and I hope you guys also enjoyed your summer break!

See you next month <3

Lisanne 

Hello lovely people, I hope all of you had a great summer and took some time to rest. During August, I spent some time working (it’s all about that money), but of course, I also did some things for Helix. Getting the things transferred from the old board to the new board with the banks required an ungodly amount of phone calls (13!) and I was working hard on finalising the budget together with FSC. We made sure that we had both the realisation from 22-23 and the budget for 23-24 ready for our extraordinary GA in early September. 

Sadly I had to miss out on the INKOM, but I heard it was a great success. Outside of that I also helped out at FIC and I was very happy to see so many new and excited faces in the Biomed and the RMT programmes. I’m looking forward to all the exciting events coming up and I hope to see you around the Helix room!

Cheers, Maïté

Hello there! August was such a fun time. First we had INKOM, of which, I unfortunately couldn’t be present for the first two days. However, the days that I was here, it was a blast. It was so fun meeting all the first years. Do you know what happened after meeting the first year students? Another opportunity to meet first year students, also known as the FIC. Here, I got to present Helix to all Biomedical Science students. Afterwards, we were talking to more students personally, helping them out where we could. Now we are focusing on our upcoming fun events such as the introweek. We have so many things planned for this week and I am so excited. Also we’re going to end introweek with our annual camp! I cannot wait to see you all there. Alrighty then, that is all I have to say right now. Enjoy the opening of this academic year!

Hii, I hope everyone’s summers were good! I traveled a ton, but I always managed to find a moment here and there on the new plans that will be rolling out this month. We have put together promo posters for social media, the syllabi and Canvas announcements. We have made a new insta: @sahelix.education >> make sure to follow! The Bachelor and Master Coordinators have been very helpful and supportive in my initiatives regarding updating the structure of the Student Evaluation Panels, especially in the master MBS. Shoutout to J Theys, the Director of Education, for all his great ideas, that we hope to realise soon! Just before the start of the academic year 23-24 we had the INKOM and faculty introduction days – which were all a great success, and loads of fun. Cheers to all the future plans we hope to accomplish, Barb.

Hello everyone!! I hope you all enjoyed your summer and started off the first week of the academic year well. I definitely had a good summer, but next to all the wonderful trips I made and relaxing I did, we as board have not been sitting still. We were, among other things, planning our activities for INKOM, FIC, Introweek and the First Years Weekend. INKOM and FIC have already happened and I had a great time meeting all the new first years and master students during those days. Now, I am mostly busy with the organisation of the First Years Weekend, since I am this year’s board representative of the committee organising the whole weekend. It has been a lot of fun organising it and I am looking forward to meeting all the first years and maybe even seeing some familiar faces from INKOM and FIC! 

Hello hello hello dear Helix Reader, how were your holidays ? Done anything unusual ? Well, since you’re insisting, I will tell you what I did in August …. Fiiiiiiiine. Anyways, August was amazing in my opinion ! It was our first INKOM as Helix Board, so for the first day we had a stand at the Informarket, together with ABN AMRO, where we got to meet so many first years. Our stand was by far the best stand out there, for sure for sure. We also had various chill social events where we got to meet some firsties as well, which was really fun ! We even played Werewolven in the Helix room, it sparked quite some drama, relationships were broken, people’s trusts were lost, it was intense…. Then we had the Faculty Introduction Days (FIC), first for the bachelors for Biomedical sciences and Regenerative Medicine and Technology. My inner shopkeeper came out while we were selling the labcoats, I loved it haha. It was very chaotic, with all the various groups passing by our stand, and then we had to tell them about Helix, sell labcoats, (try to) promote Introweek and Camp, but I thrived. Then it was the master’s FIC, and we met some masters, they are actually really chill people to my surprise 😉 (I joke) I hope we will have a few more Masters members this year, but we shall see. For the moment we have been busy preparing for the start of uni, and hoping we get sign ups for camp and introweek !

Anyways, till next month loves !

Mylena