Just awesome! Some time ago, Chrissass, the Drachslaaaaaa and I subscribed for a dataming course at the University of Maastricht, that I knew already, would bring me back to my old faculty and some old teachers. This morning the first day started and it really felt so familiar: the train ride to Maastricht, the same I rode during about five years, and the classes of the teachers I already knew. Some of the teachers improved, some of them did not… It was nice to meet my old supervisor again and have a talk to Evgueni Schmirnov also one of my old lecturers. It really struck me that Open University is quite famous also at other Universities and also the tone of voice Evgueni talked to me about OUNL. Apparently, he was quite impressed I ended up there. And although I first planned to do a PhD in Maastricht University, which I unfortunately did not get, I’m happy I ended up in OUNL. I think till now I enjoy working at the OU a lot and today I realised, that while I was happy to be back at Maastricht University, this is a time that has passed and probably I ended up in the right place. Now I have amazing colleagues at OUNL, the apecage people I would not like to miss, and working in a European project like MACE gives you a lot of new experiences and opportunities. Also the sheer amount of nice people I met since I started working at OUNL, through winterschools, summerschools and projectmeetings is amazing and it happened a lot faster than I would have met people in all day life. Then again, I might have got this opportunities at Maastricht University but I’m not too sure about it. Well life is truly like a box of chocolates, you never know what you gonna get, you never know what comes along the way, but you have to make the best of it, and right now I feel satisfied about where the road has taken me upto this moment…
2nd Jul, 2007