Student Column

Wittenborg's annual 'Project Week' excursion this year was held at the Open-Air Museum in Arnhem earlier this week. The Open-Air museum essentially demonstrates what it was like to live in the past. Students had a 90-minute guided tour followed by another 90 minutes of free time within the museum. The task at hand for the students was to identify and analyse the museum's market strategy, followed by how they can improve the museum's approach.

Many students find themselves in tricky situations and creating a budget is not as easy as it looks. Being on your own, you start to question: How did my parents do it, and how are other students managing?

Writing papers with tight deadlines is part of every student's life. We all know the myth of student laziness and we can argue if it is true or if it is just something the world around us wants to believe.

How reliable is our intuition or "sixth sense"? Can we trust it? In this week's student column MBA student Hanna Abdelwahab argues that one's gut feeling can often be a survival tool in business and in life.

It is no secret that our blocks at Wittenborg go by faster than the speed of sound, therefore, distractions play a huge role in our overall educational performance. Not in a good way, unfortunately. Listed below are a few major distractions that most of us students encounter on a daily basis. If you are not affected by any of these distractions, then you must be applauded.

Most people hate presentations, whether as a presenter, listener or evaluator. MBA student, Hanna Abdelwahab, has some good tips on how to make yours better.

Ever heard of the butterfly effect? In this week's column MBA student Hana Abdelwahab explores what we can learn from the theory that reminds us how small things can have a massive effect.

“Acting on an anonymous phone call, the police raid a house to arrest a suspected murderer. They don’t know what he looks like, but they know his name is John. Inside the house, they find a carpenter, a lorry driver, a car mechanic and a fireman playing cards. Without even asking his name, the police immediately arrest the fireman. How do they know they’ve got their man?”

‘Procrastination is the thief of time’. Have you heard this phrase before? Well, it’s an old adage coined by the English writer Edward Young in his 10,000-line poem entitled: The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, more simply known as Night-Thoughts. In the poem, Young muses on death and urges us to ‘be wise to-day’ as life and opportunities can slip away quickly.