{"id":101837,"date":"2019-08-21T10:29:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T08:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=101837"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:25","slug":"spending-the-night-at-the-campus-gym-im-glad-i-brought-earplugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/08\/21\/spending-the-night-at-the-campus-gym-im-glad-i-brought-earplugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending the night at the campus gym: \u2018I\u2019m glad I brought earplugs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are the kind of scenes you wouldn\u2019t necessarily expect in a gym, but of course, this is not just any week. You see, due to Eureka Week, Erasmus University\u2019s gym has been converted into a temporary dorm for several hundreds of first-year students. So how was their first night there? Did they manage to get any sleep, or were they prevented from falling asleep by noisy fellow students? Three students answered our questions.<\/p>\n

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Eva Vermeiren<\/span><\/p>

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Eva Vermeiren, <\/strong>21, a first-year psychology student, did not have a particularly great night. \u201cIt was OK, I suppose. When I entered the gym on Monday, I thought, \u2018oh, this is going to be horrible\u2019, but in actual fact, you\u2019re so worn out at the end of the day that you\u2019ll fall asleep pretty much at once. Yesterday I met a lot of new people, and mostly, I drank a lot. In the evening I went to the party at the Maassilo with a group, and eventually, I ended up visiting a student society, S.S.R. We got here at around 3am. It was pretty noisy at that time, because many people were still up and talking to each other. Getting up this morning wasn\u2019t too bad. Thankfully, I took a shower yesterday, because I was prepared for the fact that there aren\u2019t an awful lot of showers here. I will sleep here for the rest of the week, as well, but it will be OK. Right now I mainly feel like sitting down and having a quiet cup of coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bram Louwerens<\/span><\/p>

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18-year-old Bram Louwerens <\/strong>is embarking on a degree in business administration in September. Unlike Eva, he slept just fine in the gym. \u201cOnly I had a bit of a short night, because I was kind of expecting we\u2019d be allowed to get up a bit later. I thought the sleeping mat was quite comfortable. I often sleep on one at home, too. Yesterday was a very, very long day. I had to get up early to get from Venlo to Rotterdam , but I closed off the day in style at the Skihut. After the Skihut I thought it was time to leave. I was one of the first people to get back to the gym at night, so basically, there wasn\u2019t a lot of noise to bother me. I wouldn\u2019t have minded a few more hours\u2019 sleep, but right now, I mostly just want breakfast.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Anastasia Korsunsky<\/span><\/p>

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Anastasia Korsunsky<\/strong>, 23, a policy economics student, is queuing at Starbucks by 9am. \u201cLast night was my first night at the gym, and I\u2019m very tired, so coffee is a necessity. I actually passed the night better than I expected, I\u2019m glad I brought earplugs. The sleeping mat I was on wasn\u2019t terribly comfortable, but I was so tired I would have been able to fall asleep anywhere. Yesterday was a busy day, what with the opening ceremony (which was absolutely brilliant) and the walking tour of the city. In the end, it was not a very late night for me. We tried to enter a student society, but unfortunately, the queue was enormous, so that didn\u2019t work out. Although I had a reasonably good night of sleep, I\u2019m still extremely tired right now, but hopefully that will pass soon after some coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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