Marijn Koot is wearing an inflated rubber ring today. It fits amazingly well with their super hero image and black capes. He was twenty minutes late. Why was that? “Missed my train.” Marijn has to come all the way from Geertruidenberg (half way to Rotterdam!).

“Twenty minutes late is not okay,” says mom Liselotte. Fellow mom Lucy, on the other hand, thinks it’s excellent that Marijn was not on time. “Otherwise it would have been me wearing the rubber ring, because I was six minutes late.” But Marijn isn’t complaining; he’s trying to work the ring as a fashion item.

Group numbers have dwindled because one international is in quarantine, another is still abroad, another never responded to calls from the moms, and two of the kiddoes ‘couldn’t make it’ today.

Break

The business case at GEWIS consists of an example lecture, a quiz and a break. In the break, Pascal Otjens tells us that this afternoon he is down to do six workshops. That’s tennis, two with something to do with games, and building using waste at TU/e innovation Space. He had also signed up for pole dancing, “persuaded by a girl I know who’s doing Intro with Thor,” but that was an alternative for game programming with Team Serpentine AI. “That was already full, so they laid on an extra workshop. I’m going to do that.” The group feels it’s a shame. “We definitely would have come and watched!”

Pascal is an active person. “I’ve already signed up for Demos, tennis association Fellenoord and study associations Van der Waals and GEWIS.” Yes, we did hear right, he is going to be doing two studies at the same time.

Getting the group photo taken involves some vigorous effort. Bram was not keen to put on his cape. “It’s against my beliefs,” he protests, “and so is posing for photos.” But okay, he’ll make an exception. “Anything for the group!”