These guides fell in love during Eurekaweek

Guides Nikita and Rita have been together for a year. They met at Eurekaweek and now guide the same group. “We would like to have a barbecue at the Kralingse Plas. It’s very beautiful there now. And romantic.”

Master’s students Nikita (23, Quantative Finance) and Rita (23, Data Science) gesture to a guide across the street. It turns out to be a friend from their own Eureka year. A year later, the group of friends of the two students still consists for a large part of people they know from the introduction period. Rita and Nikita assist fifteen master’s students in their discovery of Rotterdam.

Why are you a guide?

Rita smiles: “We have a special connection with Eurekaweek.”

Nikita explains: “As master students we met during Eurekaweek, a month later we were dating and now we are guides of the same group together.”

Did you fall in love during Eurekaweek?

Rita: “There was a spark already during the parties as the week progressed, even though we took our time afterwards. But we’ve been together for almost a year now, and that wouldn’t have happened without Eurekaweek.”

What places and associations that are not covered in the programme would you like to showcase yourself?

Nikita: “We would definitely like to barbecue at the Kralingse Plas. It is very beautiful there now. And romantic. Furthermore, a kapsalon at Has after a night out is pretty epic.”

What kind of guides are you, strict parents or mates?

Rita: “With our group, we don’t really have to be strict. Master students are much calmer than first-year students.”

What is your nightmare scenario for this week and how do you prepare for it?

Nikita: “Losing students from your group… Last year one of our guides was a guy with a big blond frizzy haircut. You could see him coming from miles away. That helped.”

Rita: “I might want to buy a very striking bright yellow umbrella. So that people don’t lose us.”