Another impressions from the Netherlands

• What makes me happy: I got a second-hand chair, second-hand table, second-hand table lamp and a mattress from IKEA... Ja, en ik al weet, hoe werkt de IKEA systeem. A few days after buying the chair, I saw a few nice chairs being dumped into a garbage in front of the Mathematics building...too late.
  

• To be a little bit cynic: first impressions from the Netherlands = bikes + rain.
• I was said that perhaps around 20-25 percent are accepted for the Mathematical Sciences...wow, I was maybe more lucky than I thought...
• How to get a job as a pure mathematician: "Go to your future employee, give them your CV. Now, what do they see? They see that you're a genius, so they're going to accept you." :-D
• Summerschool is fun, I like learning again. I like the lecturers, maybe I'm going to take their subjects in the regular school year.
• I met two of my new classmates (in the summerschool) - one from Norway, the second one from here (with Chinese parents, but apparently as Dutch as any other Dutch person). Yeah, I like them :-)