November | 29th Board

Wow, there we are again! Starting the last month of the year already. A lot of things happened in November starting with the CoBo. I cannot say it was a memoizable evening because I don’t remember anything 😉 but.. I am really happy that we did it and that we never have to do this again! Two days after the CoBo, the graduation took place. This day was so much fun! The organization from our side was perfectly done, people were happy and the collaboration with the university was nice. Doing the speech was exciting, I was a little bit nervous but after all, hanging out with Roger Godschalk and Rory Koenen, doing the speech, talking with old (board)members and everything was so much fun! Nice start of the first week of November.

Then we had a really nice week with more fun. Monday 8 November my Education Committee organized the how to read a paper event which was well received by the first and second-year students. The Education Committee is planning on more of these events so stay tuned for that! The day after my Activities Committee organized the bowling event which I, unfortunately, couldn’t join because of LOBEG. LOBEG is the Landelijk Overleg Bewegings- en Gezondheidswetenschappen and was held in Amsterdam. It was a really nice meeting and I liked to get to know our sister associations a little bit more. And it was very nice to hear that the participants of the bowling event had a lot of fun as well!

And the Battle of Committees has started of course! The first event was the 10^th of November and escalated a little in the club 😉 Sports is going strong with 30 points so for all the other Committees, come on, earn those points!

Furthermore, we had a lot of fun with the Board as well this month, I had a house party where we danced a lot together, we went out too often and had a lot of dinner parties as well. I am really happy with this group of girls around me!

Then something more serious, the first GA took place as well! It was new for a lot of our members and for us as Board as well. This was the first in-person GA we did and although we were a little nervous and there are some improvements possible, I think it was a good opportunity to get to know the committees and to give an update to our members.

Unfortunately, we had to cancel the snooker event and most of the events for December are cancelled as well. But you can participate in the Secret Santa event and for the firsties: the Pub quiz will also take place! So you won’t forget Helix at all!

Okay, guys! That’s it for now. I really want to wish you a nice Christmas break, a very merry Christmas and see you all in 2022 again!

The past month a lot of things happened. Of course, on the 2nd of November, our CoBo took place. This, to finally celebrate our constitution, and oh a lot happened that evening. We are still very grateful for everyone who came by to congratulate us! After the CoBo we had one day to recover before we were off to celebrate something else, namely, our graduates! On the 4th of November, the bachelor graduation took place and we were all there to help out and to congratulate the graduates on this amazing achievement. Other events this month were the article reading workshop, which I could not attend unfortunately enough, the bowling event, and the first official Battle of Committees evening! These last two were so much fun! Unfortunately, the rest of the events, the beer tasting, pool tournament and Christmas dinner, had to be cancelled due to the new COVID-19 measurements. Lucky enough for our firsties, we will come up with a solution for the pub quiz, so we can still help them prepare for their exam. 

What did go through was our First Committee General Assembly. This was the first real-life GA in over a year and even though most of us had never experienced a real-life GA, we managed quite well! We finally got to officially vote in Meike as our Head of Education, even though we have never seen her as anything but our very own power woman of a Head of Education. Ever since the GA, I have been busy with making the minutes, so you can expect those somewhere in the upcoming weeks 😉 I have also been busy with making a very special edition of the SA Helix Newsletter! In these turbulent times, we could use some extra warmth and happiness, and what does that better than a healthy dose of Christmas spirit?

Best of luck to those who have exams this month and enjoy your well-deserved break after!

November has been a really busy month for all of us. We started the month off with our CoBo, which is the night that we finally got socially accepted as a board. It was a fun night in which we bonded with a couple of our old boards, but I am really glad that it is over now and we don’t have to do it again. A couple of days after our CoBo it was time for the Bachelor Graduation, for which I give all the credits to Kim, she organised everything very well. It was a fun day, in which we congratulated all the former graduates. We also had a couple of events this month. First, there was the ‘How to read a scientific article workshop’, which I think was a very helpful evening for not only first years, but for second years as well. One of our alumni members gave a very nice lecture on how to read a paper and the students who did attend, thought it was very helpful. We also organised the bowling event, which unfortunately I couldn’t attend, but I’ve heard that it was a lot of fun. We also organised our first Battle of Committees event, so the battle is officially on. Then for all the other nice events that we have planned, but couldn’t happen because of Covid, stay tuned, we’ll get to those later!

We also had our first Committee GA in November, which was a special GA for two reasons, firstly, it was for most of us the first on-site GA, but secondly, and more importantly, Meike finally got voted in! 

Now more for function-specific tasks, this month I gave the Treasurer’s crash course to the committee treasurers and I sensed that they all picked it up very quickly. Furthermore, my excursion committee decided on a destination and we are all going to Budapest, so I am really excited about that! I arranged that all the members of the month get a pair of MedSocks as a gift and at the moment I am working on some new sponsorships.

For December, we, unfortunately, cannot organise much because of Covid, but I am positive for the new year and because I won’t write to you anymore before Christmas, I want to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year! 

This month the bachelor graduation took place. Because the preparations could only start really late because of Covid-19, I had to make the PowerPoints on short notice. But fortunately, I managed to finish these on time! The day itself went very smoothly with the complete powerpoints, and to spare our voices we switched reading the texts for the graduates among three board members. I also arranged a couple of speakers at the last minute, and their speeches were very well received by everyone, so I am really happy with that! There were some minor catering issues during the day itself, but with enough extra help from the whole Helix board and the graduation committee from FHML, everything turned out fine. In summary, I was very content with how the day went and I am very proud of my board for how much they all helped during this day! Also, the bachelor open day took place that same week. I attended the open day together with Meike. Unfortunately, the open day was not very interesting for us since most people we spoke to wanted to study medicine and were not looking for a study association yet. To go a little bit back in time, our CoBo. Well, that was an evening to never forget, or actually to forget. Also, I attended the scientific reading workshop, the first battle of committees and the Helix bowling night. The last major November project where I was busy with were the new Helix hoodies. I held a pre-sale of those during the GA where we already sold almost half of them. I also have experienced some issues with these hoodies, because we did not pay the “afterpay” yet they were sent much later than what I wished for. Also, the company that delivers them did not properly get the pictures that we wanted on the hoodies and therefore we needed to send those again. And now they have delivery problems with a specific size, so we won’t get them until the beginning of December. I hope they will now be delivered soon! The last big event from this month was our first in-person GA. There is always room for improvement, but since it was for most of us the first in-person GA I think it went fine. I’m looking forward to December with hopefully not that many covid restrictions. I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy 2022!

This month was our first GA and this was extra special for me because I got voted in :)! Furthermore, the first SEP reports were sent out to all the coordinators. We’re already halfway through the course so that means that the SEPs are already working again on the next report. I had my recurring meetings with the student council. The first week of November was a very fun and busy week, we had our CoBo which for me was a really fun night. We also did the graduation which was really cool and special to see how everything went, especially thanks to our Vice-President who worked her ass off for this. I had my first meeting with BMSO, which was really interesting to learn about how other universities are handling their education in these times. And to close the week off, we had the bachelor open day. In the second week, we organized nice events (I can tell because I lost my voice) such as how to read a paper, bowling and the battle of committees. I have also met with the Head of Educational relations from FHML, to discuss important topics our education is facing. Additionally, I have started working on something special which I hope to inform more on soon. To close off this month, I am very sad that the pool tournament and the Christmas dinner could not go through :(. But I am sure that we will catch up next year!