Do you also believe you have spent too much time staring at your computer screen last year? In this special edition of the Let’s Talk about X podcast, we will attempt to pull you away from the virtual world by giving you some great book tips!

In this podcast episode, we will the following five books:

Amusing ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

A Father's Affair by Karel van Loon

In urban regions, housing production lags and real estate prices are growing and growing. This results in a shortage of affordable homes, especially for starters. What does the current housing situation look like? And what does that mean for you as a student when you want to buy a house in a few years?

Each year on 4 May, the Dutch commemorate the victims of World War II. This day leads us to think about what it was like to be a student at the TU Delft back then. Was studying even possible? Were the student associations still open? And were there any students who joined the resistance?

To help us find out what this period was like, we invited two guests to the show. Abel Streefland is our university historian and can tell us all about what education was like during these dark years. Our second guest is Pim Jager. He is a member of the archiving committee of the student association DSC.

In this podcast episode of Let’s Talk about X, we discuss climate activism practiced on campus. We’ve invited TU Delft students Charlotte Braat from Extinction Rebellion Delft and Sieb Rodenberg from Students for Sustainability. During our conversation we touch upon the importance of climate justice, the role and responsibility of our generation (and the TU Delft student in particular) and their theories of change, or different approaches towards climate activism.

The Dutch Sustainable Growth Coalition, with companies as Unilever, DSM and Shell, recently published a report in which it states that the current state of plastic recycling is not as desired. Together with Jan- Peter Balkenende (former Prime Minister of the Netherlands and chairman of the DSGC), Thor Tummers (External Affairs at Unilever) and Rushabh Chheda (TU Delft alumnus) we zoom in on this topic and its challenges!

In this podcast of Let’s Talk about X, we discuss the beautiful green country of Ireland. We are joined by a true born and raised Dubliner: Jordan Kelly. He obtained his bachelor degree in the Irish city of Limerick and is now studying Integrated Product Design at the TU Delft. We will ask him all about Ireland, the Irish and of course St. Patrick’s Day and its traditions!

On Wednesday 17 March 2021, the Dutch parliamentary elections are being held! In this podcast of Let’s Talk about X we will tell you all the ins and outs of the Dutch political system and the upcoming elections. What will be the main political themes for the upcoming years? What are the biggest political parties in the Netherlands? How did this complex system come about in the first place? It will all be explained to you in this episode!

In this podcast of Let’s Talk about X we will talk with two of our elite athletes Stephanie Stoutjesdijk and Ralf Rienks. How do they combine study with sports? What are their goals? And how do they experience this challenging period and its struggles?

What do you know about the origins and the rituals? Learn more about this ancient tradition from China.

We’ve invited sinologist Danny Nobel and a Chinese student from our community to talk about the Chinese New Year: the festivities, the traditions and rituals.

In the first podcast episode of Let’s Talk about X, we will talk with Tobias from the DSBV (Delftse Studenten Beleggings Vereniging) about the opportunities for students when it comes to investing.

Is it smart to start right now, or better to wait until later? And where to find the opportunities in these strange times?

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