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Column: 8068

In Korea is 1004 schijnbaar een populaire pincode. Koreanen spreken het getal namelijk uit als ‘cheonsa’, waarbij ‘cheon’ staat voor duizend, en ‘sa’ voor vier. Tegelijkertijd is ‘cheonsa’ óók het Koreaanse woord voor ‘engel’. ‘Wat een leuke woordspeling’, moeten talrijke Koreanen denken, ‘laat ik dat getal als pincode kiezen!’

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Science & Technology Magazine

Column: Delft, 1983

Het is rumoerig In de hal van de Afdeling der Luchtvaart- en Ruimtevaarttechniek van wat toen de Technische Hogeschool Delft heette. Een groep studenten schoolt samen voor het prikbord met tentamenuitslagen, er klinken kreten van verontwaardiging.

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Column: Becoming a Burger

For the very last time, Bas Leijser gives his unfiltered opinion on university life, with a bit of sarcasm and Dutch directness mixed in.

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Column: Join the Mars Two project

In this biweekly column, Bas Leijser gives his unfiltered opinion on university life, with a bit of sarcasm and Dutch directness mixed in. In his free time, Bas likes to graduate for his master in Civil Engineering & Management.

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Column: UTwente Sorting Hat quiz

In this biweekly column, Bas Leijser gives his unfiltered opinion on university life, with a bit of sarcasm and Dutch directness mixed in. In his free time, Bas likes to graduate for his master in Civil Engineering & Management.

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Column: University of Twente 10-Year Challenge

In this biweekly column, Bas Leijser gives his unfiltered opinion on university life, with a bit of sarcasm and Dutch directness mixed in. In his free time, Bas likes to graduate for his master in Civil Engineering & Management.

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Column: Exams are so 2018

In this biweekly column, Bas Leijser gives his unfiltered opinion on university life, with a bit of sarcasm and Dutch directness mixed in. In his free time, Bas likes to graduate for his master in Civil Engineering & Management.

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Blog: humour

A woman walks into a mortuary. The mortician lifts up the sheet and the woman says: ‘Yes, that is my husband, but what detergent are you using to keep your sheets so white?’ The joke comes from ‘Das schwarze Buch’ by the German comic artist Uli Stein. It was used in a Viennese experiment with 156 subjects. These people were asked whether they liked the jokes.

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Column: Why the UT should hand out Christmas packages

In this biweekly column, Bas Leijser gives his unfiltered opinion on university life, with a bit of sarcasm and Dutch directness mixed in. In his free time, Bas likes to graduate for his master in Civil Engineering & Management.

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Het ongeluk dat me niet overkwam

Mijn krant schreef over ‘de val van dirigent Bernard Haitink’. ‘Wat!? #HeToo?’,  flitste het meteen door mijn hoofd. Maar het bleek dat hij gewoon was gevallen, direct na een optreden. Op zijn leeftijd is dat een drama, natuurlijk.

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Column: Why the UT should replace bikes with horses

In this biweekly column, Bas Leijser gives his unfiltered opinion on university life, with a bit of sarcasm and Dutch directness mixed in. In his free time, Bas likes to graduate for his master in Civil Engineering & Management.

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Column: Twente Open Days - Swipe Right or Left?

In this biweekly column, Bas Leijser gives his unfiltered opinion on university life, with a bit of sarcasm and Dutch directness mixed in. In his free time, Bas likes to graduate for his master in Civil Engineering & Management.

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