KAIST Fall 2019 Week 7 – Peculiarities of a Korean Midterm

Students here do strange things when it comes to the midterm exams. There is not recess week, and so in the week before, the following was observed: The provision of extra bins around the...

GEXP UWaterloo 2019 – St Jacobs Market

St Jacobs Farmer Market is one of the main attractions of Kitchener-Waterloo and we finally headed down after almost a month in Canada. The market is not very accessible, but can be reached via...

GEXP National Taiwan University 2019 – Mid Autumn Festival

National Taiwan University attracts the brightest of Taiwanese talents and when it comes to course enrolment, it is naturally cut-throat competitive as well. In the first two rounds of subject bidding for the highly...

I don’t have 20 friends yet but I do have Twente friends

So admin issues (read: blog password buried under 300 emails) have been settled and I can finally talk about Twente. Let's go for a quick day by day summary of my last few weeks, shall...

2018 GEXP POSTECH, South Korea (Week 3)

Lessons officially started this week. They are mainly introductions to the courses so there isn’t really any work yet. There are less lesson hours here than compared to SUTD’s curriculum. Every subject has 1h15min...

KAIST2019 – Inhyuk – Events during Fall Semester in KAIST

  In this post, I would like to share some of the events that took place during fall semester in KAIST.   KAIST-POSTECH Science War Archrivals KAIST and Postech compete in sports and cyber hacking competitions during this...

2018 GEXP POSTECH, South Korea (Week 4)

This coming weekend is the Chuseok Holidays! It is like Thanksgiving plus Mid-Autumn festival in Korea. The holiday lasts around a week and we have around 6 days of break from school including the...

KAIST Fall 2019 Week 10 – Red Clay Is Very Healing

Koreans are somewhat obsessed with things that are 'healing'. Many things can be considered healing. Nice peaceful parks, good weather, a clean meal. In Daejeon, there is the healing red clay trail. It's a...

[GEXP Twente 2018] NSK Trappenloop

On 14 December, I participated in the Dutch National Championship (NSK, Nederlands Studenten Kampioenschap) Trappenloop (Staircase chase). The race was organized in Nijmegen in the Erasmus building. There are several categories: Individual - 10 floors ...

KAIST Fall 2019 Week 8 – To Seoul We Go

Midterms is over, and to Seoul we go! We ended our papers on wednesday, and that gave us a four day weekend, so we definitely wanted to get out. We visited the dongdaemun design plaza, designed...

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