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dankbaar dat er een aantal mensen is met wie het contact ‘aan’ is gebleven ondanks de afstand en ondanks de situatie dat de meesten van hen zich tegenwoordig in de huisje-boompje-beestje-baby-fase bevinden of zich langzaamaan in die richting ontwikkelen. Mark, Diana, Rudy, Yvonne, Ries, en René uit Meijel; Karin, Malu, en Kim van het gymnasium; en Lieneke, Nikky, Max, Richard, en Esther die ik ken vanaf mijn studententijd: Bedankt voor het bierdrinkgezelschap, de struiktheemomenten (ik snap dat fenomeen overigens nog steeds niet, zo’n half bos in je thee), festivals, logeerpartijen, etentjes, concerten, en andere memorabele momenten. Ik hoop dat er nog vele zullen volgen. Een bijzonder bedankje tot slot voor Majken, voor alle doldwaze Selwerdavonturen back in the day en nu voor het ontwerpen van de cover van mijn proefschri .
The PhD community
In my second year, at the PhD day in 2014, I met Ni, who told me about this crazy little thing called GOPHER (for those unfamiliar with it, you can see it as an open club of UG PhD students who try to solve all their problems by drinking substantive amounts of alcohol (with the exception of certain people who prefer coke and desserts)). Ni then convinced me to join the GOPHER board. So I did, and as a result I met many PhD students from other faculties and I gained some useful organisational and interpersonal skills (e.g., how to deal with weird people), and got very fast in calculating the number of beers one can get for a certain amount of money (this skill is not to be underestimated). I found GOPHER to be such a welcome distraction from work that I stayed on board for three years. Many successful events, fun times, enjoyable meetings, and interesting gossip rounds took place, for which in particular I’d like to thank Ni, Brenda, Linda, Wouter, Simon, Eric, Antonija, Daniela, Morten, Diana, and Xu (although the last one still has to make it up to me for never nishing the carnaval event report).
Furthermore, a big thanks to all the people who joined GOPHER events and with whom I have had many (good and Heineken) beers, (interesting and boring) conversations, and (mostly) fun times. A special thanks to the GSSE PhD council who always allowed me at their monthly borrels despite not being in their graduate school, although I regularly had to pay the price for that when some stubborn die-hard science people tried (and, admittedly, succeeded) to get on my nerves by claiming social science isn’t an actual scienti c eld – I suggest we end this discussion once and for all, for which I kindly refer you to proposition 9 in this thesis.
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