Ieder mens heeft een verhaal! Voor de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam ga ik op zoek naar die verhalen. Alumni vertellen over hun dromen van toen en hun carrière van nu, maar ook studenten en medewerkers komen aan het woord. Een grappige anekdote, een inspirerend verhaal. Over liefde, het leven, studeren en werken, ambities, reizen, vriendschap en familie. Hieronder deel ik de reeds gepubliceerde verhalen (klik op de foto voor tekst). Wil je dagelijks op de hoogte blijven, volg de Erasmus Universiteit op facebook.
“My son (4) is an EUR product”
“Even if you do a little bit, you can make a difference”
“What drives me is versatility – that’s where I get my energy from”
“I am fascinated by tumours”
“We have our Christmas dinner in pyjamas!”
“These children are the football players, doctors and judges of the future”
“Don’t let it happen, make it happen!”
“For a long time, I felt that I had to live up to someone else’s expectations”
“Campus Woudestein feels like home to me”
“I never did it again!”
“If another employer paid me 1000 euro extra each month, I still wouldn’t leave this place”
“Go out and see things for yourself! “
“The best thing about my work is lecturing”
“It’s all about people!”
“It only took 9 minutes to get all the gyms cleared”
“The only thing that’s blocking you from achieving anything, is yourself”
“I still don’t understand why my parents left me, but through this I learned to stand on my own two feet”
“Ik wílde helemaal geen rechten studeren, ik wil mensen beter maken!”
“Kijk goed om je heen, zei mijn moeder”
“That’s when my life really began”
“I was born in this hospital”
“A mop and a bucket – that’s all I had!”
“I forgot the first and VERY important meeting for Erasmus University College!”
That’s when I knew; I wanted to do things differently.”
“We organised a three course meal in the Ronald McDonald House”
“My mother is the Christmas chef!”
“After the show, the concertmaster said: ‘I’ve worked here for 25 years, but I’ve never seen anything like this!”
“Daddy went to some very nice birthday parties, though!”
“My mum is my BFF but when it comes to men….”
“I always end up on the sofa feeling over full, so I’d rather not be wearing a cocktail dress!”
“I once nearly knocked Roger Federer over before an important match
“We were fighting about drugs”
“I was forced to work at Erasmus University”
“I thought he was a bit arrogant”
“ISS makes me a better person”
“If it’s about water, it’s for me”
“My wife helped fold cake boxes”
“Making lots of money is not important”
“Slow down, Dianne, they’ll say. But how can I? Life is passing me by, and fast”
“It might lead you right into the arms of the love of your life!”
“If you can’t share your experiences and stories with your loved ones or that special person, they suddenly become a lot less valuable”
“I’ve always loved visiting hospitals”
“It would be great to read more from Foucault and Sartre”
“As an ISS alumnus I’ve been able to make significant steps in my career in Uganda”
Make it happen every day!
“I wanted a job in which I could really make an impact”
“Don’t waste time – life can suddenly be over!”
“I don’t see patients face to face, but because I get to examine their blood, I kind of bond with them”
“An overachiever? Yes, I guess I always have been”
“We waren elkaar waarschijnlijk uit het oog verloren als we niet allebei geneeskunde waren gaan studeren.”
“We hebben allebei de leukste zus ter wereld!”
“I didn’t like coffee, that’s why I work at Starbucks”
“I wanted an office with airconditioning”
“I want to be a role model for my three kids”
“Writing is in my DNA!”
“I lived in my garden shed for a year”
“One person starts his career at the university, I’m ending it here”
“My grandparents had to walk several kilometres, barefoot sometimes, to school and back.”
“Dancing is my passion!”
“It’s admirable how people try to make the best of such a difficult, inhumane situation”
“My mission continues”
“I cried all the way to Ireland”
“I never felt like a foreigner until I moved to the Netherlands”
“Refugees just want a safe home and a good future for their children, just like everyone else does”
“For ten years I’ve been knocking on people’s doors, now people knock on mine all the time”
“I hate the idea of retiring next year”
“We used to play doctors when we were young!”
“’I never know what to say when people ask me what my daughter studies’, my mom says”
“I want to make the world a better place”
“We are illegals”
“Together we are stronger!”
“The first time I addressed my father with ‘baba’, he was so proud; I felt ashamed”
“Sündüz is my surrogate mother”
“My psychosis has changed how I see the world”
“Making the world a better place: that’s all I ever wanted”
“Our soccer club is named after a book of Erasmus: Antibarbarorum Liber”
“I’ll sometimes put a rose in her locker.”
“Work is like a marathon; the last 10 kilometres are hell!”
“I’m giving it my best shot”
“My son jokes that now I become a housewife doing the laundry”
“We decided to listen to each other’s heart as a symbol of love”
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