{"id":142842,"date":"2022-08-16T17:10:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=142842"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:23","slug":"these-guides-fell-in-love-during-eurekaweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/08\/16\/these-guides-fell-in-love-during-eurekaweek\/","title":{"rendered":"These guides fell in love during Eurekaweek"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.”<\/p>\n

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Nikita and Rita found each other at the Eureka week and now guide the same group together.\n<\/span><\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>

Master\u2019s 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\u2019s students in their discovery of Rotterdam.<\/p>\n

Why are you a guide?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rita smiles: \u201cWe have a special connection with Eurekaweek.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nikita explains: \u201cAs master students we met during Eurekaweek, a month later we were dating and now we are guides of the same group together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Did you fall in love during Eurekaweek?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rita: \u201cThere was a spark already during the parties as the week progressed, even though we took our time afterwards. But we\u2019ve been together for almost a year now, and that wouldn\u2019t have happened without Eurekaweek.\u201d<\/p>\n

What places and associations that are not covered in the programme would you like to showcase yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nikita: \u201cWe would definitely like to barbecue at the Kralingse Plas. It is very beautiful there now. And romantic. Furthermore, a kapsalon<\/em>\u00a0at Has after a night out is pretty epic.\u201d<\/p>\n

What kind of guides are you, strict parents or mates?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rita: \u201cWith our group, we don\u2019t really have to be strict. Master students are much calmer than first-year students.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is your nightmare scenario for this week and how do you prepare for it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nikita: \u201cLosing students from your group\u2026 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rita: \u201cI might want to buy a very striking bright yellow umbrella. So that people don\u2019t lose us.\u201d<\/p>\n\t

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What do students think?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A master’s student smiles: “Nikita and Rita are very spontaneous and they keep up the pace. You see many groups just hanging around endlessly. But the guides take into account what we want and we are not bored.”<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t

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