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The brave people still on campus already noticed: Coffee-star Library is under construction. Not only will it expand, but the fresh new renovation will give everyone more room to study, relax and enjoy their coffee or tea. Check out the fancy render of the new look below. Bear in mind for your point of view, the main Library entrance is to your right.

You can still get Coffee-star coffee at the Library! After you enter the library, take a right. Behind the current exhibition on skyscrapers (which is also seriously cool, go check that out), you can find the pop-up Coffee-star. The baristas over there are camping out in the Library and serving us coffee as well as they can, so be nice to them.

Check out their Facebook for construction pics and updates: https://www.facebook.com/cstulibrary.

Almost finished with your exams and waiting for the results? Then you should know that your registration at TU Delft will not be terminated automatically when you are graduated. . When you are graduating, you should file a request for deregistration during the month of graduation. You do not have to wait until graduation; you may submit the request as soon as you can, preferably even a couple of weeks prior to your graduation date.You pay tuition fees up to and including the last month of your registration. Retroactive deregistration is not allowed

So, have you passed your exams and are you officially done studying? Time to deregister and celebrate! Visit the CSA website for more information regarding deregistration and/or a possible refund of tuition fees.

No restitution of tuition fee

If you’ll continue your studies in the 2016-2017 academic year, beware of the changes in the rules for restitution of tuition fee. If you deregister during the 2016-2017 academic year, you will not be entitled to a refund if you terminate your enrolment by 1 July or 1 August.

The exams and deadlines have passed and lectures will not start again until September. That means that the summer holidays have officially begun! Two months in which you do not have to worry about studying, can travel all over the world and hopefully enjoy some sun! We wish  you all a great time, but don’t forget to check in once in a while and read up on your TU Delft news!

Are you in your second BSc year and not yet registered for a minor next year? Make sure to apply for a thematic minor during the second minor registration period, starting 1 July! Log into Osiris and register for one the available minors that you wish to study.

Since the first registration period has passed, minors now have limited space or are already full. We’d love to provide you with a list of all the minors that are still available per 1 July if we could, but the minors on this list could be full within minutes after the registration in Osiris opens again. Such a list would be inaccurate within minutes. What we can do is give you a list of the minors that are definitely full and for which you cannot register any more.

The following minors are not available at the start of the second minor registration period, starting July 1:

Take a look at minors.tudelft.nl to check which of the still available minors you would like to study. Though keep in mind that you should always have a back-up minor since the minor of your first choice could also be the first choice of many other students. As the registration works by ‘first come, first serve’, your preferred minor could be filled within seconds after the registration has opened, as described above.

Wil jij met scholieren delen hoe het is om in Delft te studeren? En heb jij een smartphone met een redelijk fatsoenlijke camera? Dan is dit misschien wel iets voor jou! Wij dagen jullie uit om op een leuke, enthousiaste en grappige manier in filmpjes te laten zien hoe het leven van een Delftse student eruit ziet!

Maak dan een kort filmpje over bijvoorbeeld ‘sporten’ of over ‘je kamer en hoe je die gevonden hebt’ en stuur dat voor 5 juli naar webcare@tudelft.nl. Wie weet wordt jij wel een echte TU Delft vlogger!

Als je wordt uitgekozen als vlogger, dan krijg je per video een financiële vergoeding.

Our academic year is nearing its end. We are all busy studying for our last exams or working hard towards the last deadlines of the year. To keep our energy levels up (and sometimes also to just stay awake) we rush to the restaurants and coffee corners on our campus.

After listening to student and employee feedback (through the NSE discussions for instance) the university looked at how to better meet the food demands of students and staff.

So:

The current cafeterias in the faculties are being converted into Food & Beverage Corners with a basic range of good espresso coffee, sandwiches, salads, soups and hot snacks. Or you can create your own coffee specialty in the self-service coffee bars from DE Coffee Kitchen and Starbucks. Study or just chill out in the seats around. The food and beverage offerings are geared to every faculty’s specific needs.

But of course it does not stop there! The university has lots of plans regarding the on-campus horeca. You can read all about it in this article.

Quick summary:

• Food market in The Fellowship (open summer 2016) with La Casa Kitchen (Mediterranean) Soep & Ballen (Dutch) and the Satébar (Asian).
• The renovated Sports Café/restaurant will reopen in September 2016.
• Food market in the new PULSE building between IO and 3mE (open summer 2017).
• A Food & Beverage Corner Plus will be opened in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment in the summer of 2017, with a wide selection, including hot dishes.

Where to eat during summer?

This leaves us  to inform you about the opening hours of the current restaurants and coffee corners at campus during the summer months. Bon appétit! Click to enlarge

Read more about food & beverages on campus.

After a full year of hard work, you want to enjoy your holiday in peace. Crashes, floods, fires and disasters of all sorts need to be avoided at all cost. Start your holiday prepared! Learn more on how to do this in a brand new summer course on offer for you, called Risk Management.

It’s the perfect way to immerse yourself in real-life organisational risks and the controls that can be implemented to reduce their related impact and likelihood. The course follows the globally popular world standard on Risk Management (ISO 31000). Complete the course to receive an internationally recognised certificate on top of the 3 ECTS the course is worth. A perfect addition to your resumé and your study programme. Two-for-one!

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From 11 June until 1 July 2016, the Library, Aula and Fellowship will once again have extra long opening hours and extra study places available.

From June 16th the Library is opened two hours longer than usual during the exam period. This way, you will be able to prepare for your exams every day from 08:00 to 02:00!

• As usual, the Library is fully equipped for a proper exam preparation during this XXL period. Whether you’re looking for a quiet place to study or prefer to mingle with other students; the entire Library is at your disposal.
• Feel the need to relax? Try out one of the massage chairs, play a game of chess or enjoy your freshly brewed coffee at Coffee-Star.

Besides the XXL opening hours of the Library extra study places will be available in the Aula and the Fellowship from June 11^th till July 1st.

• The Aula will be open during week days from 08:00 till 22:00 and during weekends (extra) from 08:00 till 22:00. In the Foyer on the first floor you can find silent zones, in the Aula Entrance hall there are self-study places and in the restaurant area you can do your project work.
• The Fellowship will be open during week days from 08:00 till 00:00. During weekends you are welcome from 08:00 till 22:00. On Friday the 1st of July, the building closes at 20:00. The silent zone can be found on the second floor and instruction rooms. On the ground floor and hallways you can go for self-study and project rooms are available for project work places.

And just in case, you’d like to study somewhere else, ORAS made a nice overview of all opening hours around on campus:

Good luck with your exams!

Ever heard of the ‘salami-technique’? No, it isn’t a trick for making sandwiches… When a manager wants to implement a big change for which he or she expects strong opposition, the change is cut into little pieces. Those little changes do not seem to matter much, but at the end of the ride, the big shift is made without you even noticing.

Fun fact #1: the Salami sculpture on our campus has absolutely nothing to do with that technique! Continue reading →