- Campus , Student
- 20/08/2024
A walking cantus (student activity that revolves around singing traditional songs), that’s what this group of Mechanical Engineering looks like. Both mentors are wearing a tailcoat. “Yesterday we were in full formal attire, but tradition has it that the mentors go into the water after the case presentations on Tuesday, so today we’re wearing swim trunks,” says one of them. One of the first-years is carrying a staff, which folds out to hold twelve beers. The staff is a lighter version of a wooden beam that the mentors carried around at the Intro two years ago and that left one of them with a cyst in his left shoulder.A walking cantus (student activity that revolves around singing traditional songs), that’s what this group of Mechanical Engineering looks like. Both mentors are wearing a tailcoat. “Yesterday we were in full formal attire, but tradition has it that the mentors go into the water after the case presentations on Tuesday, so today we’re wearing swim trunks,” says one of them. One of the first-years is carrying a staff, which folds out to hold twelve beers. The staff is a lighter version of a wooden beam that the mentors carried around at the Intro two years ago and that left one of them with a cyst in his left shoulder.
In their bag, all freshers have a cantus codex listing songs. When they pull it out to sing, the mentors momentarily disagree about which song it is to be. “Best skip that one,” one of the two says about a song suggested by the rest. “I don’t want to be canceled.”
Sparkly elves
A forest may be lacking, but these BMT elves also feel right at home on campus. The Intro mentors are equipped with extra tools: a wand for a touch of magic and a water gun in case any of the freshers need help focusing. One of the freshers is wearing a sizeable clock around his neck. Why? To remind him of the importance of being on time. The clock itself won’t help him in this regard, as the battery has magically disappeared.
Provocative priests
These mentors of Electrical Engineering were looking for as provocative an outfit as possible, landing on the theme of priests and kids (as the freshers participating in the Intro are also referred to). They claim they checked with the organizers and got permission to dress up as priests, providing they wouldn’t be too explicit about the joke involving kids. “I guess that ship has sailed,” says one of the mentors. When it turned out members of their groups practiced other religions, they did allow them not to wear the cross necklaces they’d been given.
What’s cooking?
On the Flux field, we bumped into a bunch of chefs of Electrical Engineering who’d taken inspiration from the film Ratatouille. Clad in black aprons and white chef’s hats, but without rats, they seemed to spend most of their time chilling. Having said that, they did imply they’d be cooking in the evening, although they didn’t want to disclose what exactly would be on the menu. One of the Intro mentors had a moustache drawn on his face. This turned out to be collateral damage of a joke between student associations: his hat had been stolen by another association and the drawn moustache was what it took to get it back.
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