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