November | 31st Board

Sup peeps, 

We are back once again after a great month at Helix, and we are slowly heading towards the magical times of the year. We had a busy month with the graduation ceremony. I felt quite important getting to shake all the graduate’s hands. On top of that we had the first BoC event, quite an exciting little mystery adventure everyone had. Then we had the 1st committee GA where the committees were able to properly introduce themselves. Was great to see some of the very creative presentations. I also had the honour of having wee-lil presidents training with some of the committee presidents, hopefully they found it somewhat useful. We also had 2 great events from the Activities and Well-being committee, and they were a great success. And not to forget we had a great Randwyck party organised by the Randwyck committee, in short, it was a blast and a half. I hope to see all your Christmas spirits around at our upcoming events and the Helix room as well.

Cheery Cheerios,

Rutvik

Hello hello, and welcome to the November update! We started the month off with the Bachelors’ Graduation, where I got to send all the parents to the right place. Honestly, I kind of enjoyed that. I attended, just like Maïté and Oguz, the Safe Space Show. It was very well put together which made it entertaining, and it was actually fun to participate. Later we had the first BOC event, and I really enjoyed seeing all our active members being that competitive. Also, to let you in on a little bit of our board life, we held a powerpoint night (with pizza!) with just Board. Here we explained our positions to each other, and we had some random powerpoints next to that. It was a very fun night (as in my abs hurt from laughing at some point. Anyhoo, onto something more serious, we had the First Committee GA. To be honest, it was not as serious as it sounds, because the presidents prepared some funny presentations. I am working hard at making the minutes from the GA, so you can expect them soon! Then, I was present at the Master’s Open Day, to talk to future masters and explain Helix to them. One of my favorite board activities this month was to attend the Municipality Dinner, where we could talk to a lot of (important) people. Alsoooo, we had the Movie Night event from Wellbeing,  which was just adorable. We watched Elemental, and we were sitting very cozy with blankets and pillows and I just loved the vibe from everyone. We also had a bowling event, where I was great at bowling for approximately 15 minutes, and I sucked for the rest of the night. It was fun, nevertheless. Lastly, we took pictures for our Christmas cards, and it was freezing, so you better love them 🙂

Love youuu,

Lisanne

Hello lovely people, I am glad November is over and we’re moving into the magical advent time, but more about that later. November started off busy, as always. We met up with our AC as we do every month to talk about how everything is running. I also went to the SafeSpace show at the Mecc so I learned how to provide a safe space to our members. Then the week after, I got to meet all the committee treasurers before our first Committee GA. Shoutout to everyone who volunteered to be committee treasurer, I’m looking forward to collabing with you guys and you did great presenting your budgets during the GA. Later during the month, I gave them a more basic training on how to be a treasurer. We also joined the Master’s Open Day on 11/11 to talk to prospective students about Helix and how we can help them in their studies. Later during the month, I attended the CoBo of the drama association together with our Head of External Affairs Mylena, which was very fun. I am looking forward to potentially collaborating with all the people I met there. I joined our final event of the month,  the movie night, organised by our wellbeing committee  where I truly enjoyed the hot cocoa. To round it all off, we took some Christmas pictures for a surprise for our awesome active members, where we got to stand around in the cold. So look forward to that!

I hope to see most of you at all our very christmassy events during december!

Toodaloo, 

Maïté

Welcome back everyone! November started very busy with the Bachelor’s graduation. Even though I could not be there as a student, it was still nice to share that stage with my peers and friends. Same as the Treasurer and Secretary, I also went to the SafeSpace show at the Mecc. This was such a great opportunity to learn how to create a safe space for everyone. Also, another fun event was our first BoC. The committees fought hard to come out as the first winner. Unfortunately, there could only be one. Next up, our first official GA happened as well, where all our committees had a chance to meet each other. It was also lovely that all our motions got voted in. Our activities committee had a bowling event as well and our well-being committee had organised a movie night. Both were such lovely events. Who said that November was just a pre-December? So many big events happened during this month. Well that’s all for me this month. See you again at the end of december with another monthly update!

Toedels

Oguz

Hii, 

As period 1 finished off, me, together with my Student Evaluation Panels, delved into the post-exam evaluations, I kid you not, 7 reports is a lot, especially if you have to write 4 of them. The report writing intervened with many Helix-related events, such as the graduation, where we got to see many of our board members graduate and the Master’s Open Day, where we had a few minutes in the main lecture to introduce ourselves and then steal some vlaai. We then had some successful events like the Movie Night from the Wellbeing Committee and the Bowling event from the Activities Committee. We also welcomed students from all over the Netherlands and Belgium at our Experience Day. Not to forget our First Committee GA, where all of our motions were voted in. Now, that would be all for this busy month, and now off to December, and my favourite time of the year! (Let’s hope/pretend that Maastricht will be covered in snow and everything will be all cute and fluffy). 

Talk soon,

Barbora

Hello everyone! In the beginning of this month we had our first BoC event, which was a big success and the first points were given out. No worries though, lots more points can be earned this year! We also had our first Committee GA where the committees introduced themselves and their budgets. It was really fun to see all our active members being introduced and to see the creations the committee presidents had made for this introduction. Later in the month the Activities committee organised a bowling event, which was a lot of fun, although I definitely didn’t win haha. The Well-being committee also organised their first event of the year, which was a movie night. It was a very cozy night with hot chocolate and lots of popcorn for everyone to enjoy. 

See you next month!

Loes

Hey everyone,

November is always a nice month as it is when the christmas whimsy starts properly heating up! Besides that though it was a very busy month for Helix as well; the month started of with the riveting Masters open day as well as our first event for the Battle of Committees (Big props to the Advisory Council and RMT SEP for winning the first BOC points of the year)!! Though my favourite thing of November had to have been the municipality dinner we went to with the board. We were invited to the town hall to discuss student life with the Alderman of Maastricht as well as some other students and companies, which was awesome because I always wondered what that fancy building was like on the inside (Old timey paintings, ornate stairs etc.)! That was about it for November, looking forward to Christmas!!

See you next month!

Valentijn

Hello Froggies, it’s a bit chilly now innit? Let’s see what Mylena has been doing this past month to distract herself from the impending dark cold mornings and frostbite.

I started the month off strong with my first ever Travel committee meeting, where we got to know each other more (shout out to my girls Reezah and Emilie!), and we cannot wait to reveal our destination haha… shhh. Anyways, we then had our monthly Advisory Council meeting where some past boards help us deal with some of our problems since they’re wiser and know the ropes more than us yk? Then the next day was a lot of fun imo: it was the biomedical graduation! We got to see and congratulate all the biomed bachelors, it was really nice to attend, and fingers crossed that will be me in two years! Apart from that, had some sponsor meetings, and we also had our first BOC event where our lovely adorable Karel was kidnapped, but found again. Our committee GA also took place in the first week of November, and it was really fun to witness all the different committees present themselves, and see where their creativity took them (made me really excited for the coming year and events). There was also the Master’s Open day (the free vlaai is always welcome). Speaking of free food: SIH organised a municipality dinner at the Townhall (it was really cool to be inside of it) and we met various companies and important people, all the while having soup and sandwiches (and wine ; P). The activities committee also organised a bowling event, and that was nice (will not comment on my score). Maïté and I also attended the Alles is Drama CoBo, they are a fun bunch. And that was pretty much it for November. See you in December!

XOXO, 

Mylena