Monthly Update XXXIst Board
July/August
President
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
Secretary
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
Treasurer
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
Vice-President
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!
Head of Education
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.
Head of Internal Affairs (Loes)
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!
Head of external Affairs
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
June
President
Hey Peeps, it’s the President here. It’s finally happened, I am now officially President. In the time since the last update, my current fellow board members and now old board went away on a very exciting and fun weekend away to the land of Belgium. We really got to know each other more with fun activities, and also preparing our policy plan for the GA. This weekend really helped me understand who I really am, and what my purpose is in this world. The end result is that I should definitely go kayaking again. We got complimented for being able to complete a 2 hour route in the span of 5 hours. With that we ended up at the changing GA, frankly it was quite a new and nerve-racking experience for me. I started off very nervous, but then ended up feeling more and more confident towards the end. It was also quite an emotional moment for most of the old board. We ended up exchanging a couple little gifts to appreciate their efforts throughout the year. The month didn’t just end there, we had an epic BBQ at StayOkay, followed by a couple more fun adventurous nights that week :). The summer break is nearly approaching, and we are getting ready to get a nice break after allllll this Board work, jk. We all look forward to seeing you back again in September and join us all for the exciting events.
Toodles,
Rutvik
Secretary
Well hello there, it’s the (non-candidate) secretary speaking (or actually, writing). YAY!! It’s crazy to think that half a year ago, I was not even an active Helix member yet (big mistake, I should have been here since the beginning, it’s actually a lot of fun). I became secretary at the changing GA, which was such a cool experience since I was the only non-president who got to slam the gavel (it’s a flex, and did I say I got to slam it twice?). It was kinda cool being the only board member in all of helix for those few minutes (it was 8 minutes).
The past month has been very exciting, with for example all the work we needed to do to prepare for the GA to the GA itself, after which we gave old board gifts. We also had our CB weekend, the last COP and the cinema event, all of which I went over shortly in the last monthly update (oops). Next to these events, Activities and Sports put their heads together to organise the End of Year BBQ at StayOkay, which was amazing. Lustrum served some great pie in the Helix room to close this year off.
While I’m busy making the newsletter look pretty, I wish all of you the best of luck with your last exam(s), and I hope you all have fun and relax during the summer break!
Lots of love,
Lisanne
Treasurer
Hello lovely people, it is me, Maïté, the now official treasurer of the XXXIst board. It still feels weird to say this, but slowly I am growing fonder and fonder of my new title. As you can read from my fellow board members’ updates, we have been very busy bonding with each other and preparing for the changing GA during our awesome weekend in Belgium. We also had some fun events such as the cinema event, our last COP of the year, and the end of year BBQ.
Behind the scenes, my treasurer duties are keeping me occupied as I am busily working on the preparations for our financial GA that will take place during the summer.
With that I wish all of you good luck on your final projects/exams/resits of the year, and I hope you have a great summer break!
Maïté
Vice-President
Hello again it’s me, however not as a Candidate Vice-President this time. No no, I can enthusiastically say that I am writing this as the official Vice-President of the XXXIth board of Helix. Before the changing GA I had the opportunity to bond with the rest of the board during the CB weekend. There were some fun activities as well, such as the last COP and the cinema event. Then straight after the changing GA, we started with our first official board duties and hosted two committee drinks, which were successful. Thereafter, the event we were all waiting for occurred. The end-of-the-year BBQ. It was such a blast playing sports, enjoying a fine meal, and just having good conversations with my fellow Helix members. Now it is time to tackle all the challenges that next year will bring us. However, I am very confident that it will be nothing we cannot handle. This was my update for the month. I am wishing you all the best of luck for your exams, have a nice summer, and I cannot wait to see you all next year.
Oguz
Head of Education
Hiiiiiiiiiiiii (*excited Barbora voice*),
Now, I can finally scrap the candidate and introduce myself as Head of Education of the XXXXIst Helix board. The last month has been very busy. With end of the year dinners here and there, vlaai in every other meeting (gotta love Limburg and the vlaai), such an awesome way to get ready for summer! The month started off awesome with the CB weekend, the end-of-the-year BBQ at StayOkay with some awesome food and lovely people, and not to forget the brother associations gettogether a few days ago.
Looking forward to everything!
xoxo,
Barbs
Head of Internal Affairs
Hello hello hello!! We are back at it again, but this time not as candidate board member anymore, but as the Head of Internal Affairs of the XXXIst board of Helix. Sounds good, doesn’t it? So let’s talk about what happened last month. After the exam week we went on CB weekend in Belgium, which was a lot of fun. And the week after that we had our last COP of the academic year, the cinema event, and we ended the week with the changing GA. I am super happy and proud to say that all of us got voted in, and I am very excited to see where the coming year will take us. In our first week of our board year, the End of Year BBQ took place. It was a very nice way to celebrate the end of the academic year. We played sports in the park and after that had the BBQ at the StayOkay hostel. Overall, a pretty busy but also very exciting month. For now, I wish everyone a good summer and see you all in September!!
Loes
Head of Internal Affairs
Hey, it’s me, Valentijn back at it again with another monthly update. It finally happened; the changing GA where the members of helix came together to vote us in, and fortunately they did for all of us. It was a pretty exciting event for our (then still) Candidate Board but I am proud to call myself your new Head of Internal Affairs. After a lovely weekend with my board and old board for some fun bonding as well as training I have the utmost confidence in all of us and am happy to have commenced my board year! It wasn’t long until we had our first event as Board as not long after the GA we held our lovely End of Year BBQ. As much as the weather tried to pull one over on us, the BBQ was a great success with a lot of wonderful people and wonderful food (especially the pineapple).
That’s all I got for you this month, have a nice summer everyone and see you in September!
Head of External Affairs
Hey hey heyyyyyyyyy, guess who got voted in as Head of External?? ME ! Hahah ! It has been an exciting June, especially now that I have new responsibilities under my belt. As for the events that happened this month; we had the CB weekend in Belgium, it was a lot of fun! It was closely followed by the changing GA where we all got voted in, and then went for drinks to celebrate ;P. Another exciting (and delicious) event that occurred was the End of the Year Barbeque, which ended with a bang, literally ! Wow, I seriously cannot believe it; it’s already the end of the year, with the last exam, and the last assignment left to do, and so much has happened ! I am seriously eternally grateful to have been a part of Helix since this September. I have never felt more welcome, never thought I’d meet such crazy and fun people in this small city. I am truly excited to do the same next year for all of you ! Have a great summer! <3
Lots of love and mischief,
Mylena
May
President
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
Secretary
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
Treasurer
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
Vice-president
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
Head of Education
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
Head of Internal Affairs
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
Head of Internal Affairs
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
Head of External Affairs
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