May | 31st Candidate Board

My parents always told me to either go big or go home (they never did but for the sake of this story), so here we are. Becoming CB was not on my bucket list for this year, but I am glad I ended up here. The training from Mr. Javier Sanmartin Martinez was super helpful, and has been making me more prepared to take over very soon. So far the period of CB has given me great insight into how the Helix operates from behind the scenes, and getting to understand how things are taken care of and organised. I’m definitely looking for a very exciting year with my fellow board members!

Rutvik

Since I tend to talk A LOT, I will try to keep this update short and sweet (like me). It will be difficult since quite some things have happened since I joined the Candidate Board. My schedule became filled with meetings, trainings, and fun events.

We have already had a couple CB meetings, and it was great to get to know this awesome group of people better in this setting. We also have gotten very close during the CB weekend, where I found out that kayaking is not for everyone (some people took 5 hours to kayak a 2 hour track). Despite this, everyone really enjoyed the weekend. 

CB life unfortunately also brings less joyful things, like the trainings to prepare me for my new role as Secretary. Just kidding, I have really enjoyed my trainings, since Laura was there to help me every step of the way. Now, I feel very well prepared and ready to take on this exciting role. 

Next to board business, there were some fun events I enjoyed organising or attending this month. I played poker at Casino Night (Lustrum) and learned incredibly interesting things at the Company Visit to MERLN (Education). I loved partying at the Pride Party (Wellbeing X Activities) and ended this month relaxing at the Cinema Event with ‘The Little Mermaid’ (Wellbeing). 

I feel like that was basically all Helix-related things that I have experienced this month. I unfortunately can’t say that I kept it short, my apologies.

Lots of love,

Lisanne

Candidate treasurer – it does seem daunting, but after all the awesome training I received from our lovely current treasurer Amadiez, I feel much more prepared. Since becoming CB there have been so many meetings, trainings and – of course – events to attend.  This has given me a taste of what challenge is awaiting me next year, and yet I am still excited to become part of the XXXIth board. This month we had a relaxing yoga event, a casino night where I gambled away my drinks’ chips at the roulette table and danced through the night at the pride month party. I also attended our more educational events with the Company Visit at Merln and the pubquiz of course 1005, both of which I helped organise as a member of the Education Committee.

I’m hoping to see all of you at the changing GA and have a lovely month!

Maïté

Well here we are, finally on the XXXIst board. Well not officially though, still technically Candidate Vice-President. Let me tell you my little journey so far. Currently, I’m busy helping out with the preparations for the Faculty Introduction day. So let me shamelessly plug the event. Also, I’m still looking for buddies to help us out. To whoever is reading this, next time you see me in the Helix room or somewhere wandering around, ask me about it and maybe we could work something out. I have been enjoying some of the latest events as well, such as the pride party where we were all dancing with well… pride, and the relaxing yoga event which was organised in part by none other than yours truly. I might have lost some fake chips at the casino event as well, but that is neither here nor there. Right now I’m mostly looking forward to the changing GA, where we can finally (hopefully) officially become members of the board. That’s it for me this month. I’ll see you around and have a lovely day y’all!

Oguz

Hi y’all! I am happy to introduce myself as the Candidate Head of Education. I am very excited to be a part of the XXXIst Board and learn an endless amount of experiences. The Candidate Board hit it off immediately, after one of our first Board Meetings we went to make dinner at Rutvik’s and had a blast. After being an active member of the Education Committee for 2 years we ended the year with an amazing PubQuiz for BBS1005. What’s to add, we are all almost done with our exams of period 5 and happy to leave for the CB weekend the second the exams are done! 

See you around the Helix room!

Love, Barbs

The first month of our Candidate Board period has started. I am very excited to have been chosen to fill the newest role in the Candidate Board as Head of Internal Affairs together with Valentijn. We already had our first CB meetings, in which we have discussed a lot, but we mainly focussed on our policy plan for the upcoming year. We had a lot of ideas of what we want to do next year and we are now wrapping everything up into a complete report. Other than that we also took some time to get to know each other outside of the meetings, which also has been very fun. All in all, it is a very exciting time and I can’t wait to see what the upcoming year will bring us!

Loes

In may I have had the pleasure of being chosen as part the candidate board of Helix as Head of Internal Affairs with Loes, this month has been one of the craziest periods of my life what with the excursion, going through the terror that is BBS1005 and of course becoming Candidate Board . Because we became CB quite late we had our work cut out for us from the start, you could see this as stressful but let’s be optimistic and call it exciting. I look forward to what my board year brings.

XoXo,

Valentijn

May has been an exciting month this year; we had many amazing events, such as the Excursion to Berlin, the Pubquiz of BBS1005 (fingers crossed I passed the exam) and of course, most exciting of all: all of us have been nominated as Candidate XXXIst Board. It is truly an honour to (hopefully) fill in Alicia’s shoes as the next Head of External. In the beginning there were some small stressors and questions I had, but thanks to the trainings with Alicia and the collective words of wisdom from the XXXth board, my fears and anxiety are put to rest and, can I just state? I am REALLY excited for the General Assembly and see if I will be voted in ! So see you in June, and I will let you know if I got voted in 😉 

Mylena