Cognito Newsletter September 2014

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September 2014
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Welcome (back)!
Dear fellow Brain and Cognitive Science students, or replace their committees. To enable you
all to shop around in this richt environment
The first year students among you have just last of committees and informing you well, all
week entered the emotional rollercoaster of the committees will present themselves with
introduction day, the Milestones, Promises and brief introduction about their activities and
Pitfalls course and the bombardment of information composition. Do you happen to become
from the technical staff of the MBCS. We want to inspired by their messages? Just talk to the
add some more to this. Every month all Cognito committee members personaly at one of
members and also many staff members and the many drinks and don’t forget to attend
former members of Cognito receive the Cognito the Meet Cognito Meeting! If you want to
newsletter. This newsletter is created by a group of do so, let the board nkow your coming by
MBCS students which likes to call themselves the sending an email to: cognitouva@gmail.
newsletter committee. Every month the famous com.
Cognito newsletter includes a calender with an To the higher year students and all our
overview of the upcoming events, a column by one other loyal readers, I would like to say:
of the committee members, a recipe, horoscopes and welcome back! Courageous of you all to
more very essential materials to distract you from come back after the summer break, to start
studying for a moment. This month’s newsletter, again for another academic year packed
however, will be dedicated mostly to informing with courses, internships, theses and other
you about the possibilities of an active role in the obligations. While we hope to inspire our
precious Cognito student union. Every year there are new, green members, we hope to offer you
these students, call them crazy, call them special, that a tiny little retrospection to last year, to
like to add some more work to their schedule. That’s boost your motivation to start again!
how we ended up creating the Cognito newsletter
next to studying at the MBCS. Next to the newsletter With love,
committee, there is also the official Cognito board,
the social committee and the yearbook committee. The newsletter committee,
All of them are looking for new members to complete Lieke, Nelson & Annemarie
WE NEED
YOU
AND
NOW
Yearbook 2013-2014 Finished
and Available!
Finally, finally, finally! The yearbook
we’ve been working on extincively for
the last couple of months is finally finished! All second year students (from
the cohort 2013-2015) can get one via
the yearbook committee. If you’re not
present at the MBCS kick-off event,
arrange a way to get one anyway (since
it worth it!) with one of the committee
members or send an e-mail to [email protected], so we can
arrange it. Enjoy reading!
The yearbook committee:
Enny, Veerle, Yvette, Ilva & Annemarie
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Agenda
Drinks @ CREA
Every Tuesday, 21:00-late
Meet Cognito Meeting
Sept 16, 17:00
For all the first year students
who are interested in joining
a committee, a dinner at
Pasta Villa is organised
during which they can ask
all their burning questions to
(former) committee and board
members.
Internshit
Sept 23, 17-20:00 REC J/K1.05
Because all you green new
students will be having to
do a research project during
the second semester, higher
year students will tell you
about their experiences in
finding, applying and doing
an internship. A unique
opportunity to gather this
valuable inside information!
ABC Lecture
Sept 29 16-17:00 REC M1.03
Professor James McClelland
will explain the Parallel
Distributed
Processing
Approach and its involvement
in, among others, cognitive
abilities, language production
and intuition about object
properties
and
physical
principles.
For more information, check
the website of the ABC.
Internquest
Oct 7 19-21:00 REC J/K B.25
Apart from students needing
scientist to offer them
internships, there is also
scientists who need students to
carry out the research projects
they have in mind. Those
opportunities for internships
will be presented at this night.
Want to see your event
here? Please let us know by
sending an email to cognito.
[email protected]
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Birthdays
Yearbook committee
The very youngest official committee of
Cognito is the yearbook committee. At this
very moment we are finishing the yearbook
of the 2013-2014 cohort. We have been
writing pieces about all the event of the
last year, have collected as many pictures as
possible and are very busy turning this all
into an integrated yearbook. Only halfway
past last year our committee was formed, but
since then we’ve been working hard to create
a fantastic yearbook, worthy of representing
all the precious memories of our first year at
the MBCS. Because you represent your own
year, we hope we can form a full yearbook
committee of approximately 5 members
from first year students only. This also has the advantage of having full freedom in creating
it! Of course the former committee members are still willing to help you out when you come
upon any problems!
The main bunch of work will be concentrated at the last part of the academic year, but you
can already start collecting pictures, writing pieces about
events and start brain storming about the form you would
the yearbook to take. Moreover, the yearbook committee is a
good opportunity to develop your popular writing skills and
become a lay-out expert! Hopefully we can soon introduce
a new yearbook committee to take over this very important
task!
Last year’s yearbook committee, consisting of: Ilva, Enny, Veerle,
Annemarie & Yvette (not on picture)
Food for (Thought) Comfort
Let’s face it: the summer is
over. It has been rainy and
windy and we’ve been wearing
sweaters for weeks now. We’ve
been promised there are still
some summer days to come, but
the Newsletter Committee is
not buying it and decided we’d
better brace ourselves... Winter
is coming. So here’s a recipe that
will surely warm you up after a
stormy bikeride: proper homecooked lasagna. It takes some
time to make, but believe us, it’s
a thousand times better than the
salty orange jelly that passes for
lasagna in the supermarket.
We suspect the only possible
health benefits are probably
purely psychological in nature...
This is comfort food, rather than
food for thought.
Ingredients
- Lasagna sheets
- Parmesan cheese
For the meat sauce
- olive oil
- 300 gr of minced meat (beef)
- 1 large onion, diced
- 1 large carrot, diced
- 100 ml of wine (can be either
white or red; white gives a better
taste, but red is better to drink
with the dish, so if you wish to
open only one bottle...)
- 250 ml of passata
- 1 bayleaf
- Salt
- Pepper
For the white sauce
- 50 gr of butter
- 50 gr of flour
- 500 ml of milk
- nutmeg
Melt the butter on a low heat.
Stir in the flower. Leave like this
for a few minutes, stirring every
now and then, to cook the flour
(if you add the milk immediately
your sauce will taste floury).
Add the milk in steps, stirring
it in every time until you have
a smooth texture again. Add
a pinch of nutmeg and leave
to simmer for a while, stirring
every now and then to prevent
the sauce from burning.
Take the bayleaf out of the meat
sauce. Build your lasagna: thin
How-to
layer of meat sauce, thin layer
of white sauce, bit of parmesan
First make the meat sauce. cheese, pasta, repeat. Finish with
Heat some olive oil and add white sauce and lavish amounts
onion and carrot. When the of parmesan.
vegetables have softened, add
the minced meat, salt and
Into a preheated oven at 180
pepper and fry until brown. The degrees for around 30 minutes,
seasoning is also for the white check if the pasta has cooked by
sauce and the pasta, so make then.
sure you add quite a lot. Add
the bayleaf and the wine and
Serve with a fresh salad if that
boil until most of the liquid has tricks you into believing this
gone. Lower the heat, add the is a perfectly healthy meal. If
passata and leave to simmer for you wish, you can prepare the
at least 45 minutes. In the mean lasagna earlier on the day, then
time you can make the white you only need to put it in the
sauce.
oven at dinner time.
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Anna Lotz
Sept 13
Josipa Alilovic
Sept 15
Marieke Schreuder
Sept 16
Eline Kupers
Sept 17
Myrthe Knetemann
Sept 24
Kate Backhouse
Sept 25
Fenne Smits
Sept 25
Myrte Vos
Sept 26
Veronica Panichi
Sept 28
Jan Koeleman
Oct 2
Horoscope
Libra
23 Sept - 23 Oct
Libras are, off course, known
for their well-balanced
decisions. However, this
month, the balance seems
to swing to the rational side
to much for the liking of the
stars. Please make sure that
while you start your plans
to scientifically discover
the world, you also leave
some time to spend on your
paranormal abilities that the
pseudoscientific world so
desperately needs.
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Newsletter committee
September 2014
Every month a newsletter like this one is published. Which, of course, has to be taken care of by a dedicated group of students: the newsletter committee! Last year we consisted of four members to build
upon, but we need replacements for the ones who unfortunately left or are going to leave. Therefore, we
are looking for approximately 2 news members. Are you a creative genius, do you have a master degree
in journalism or fully developed designing skills? Or, do you just like writing, would you like to learn
to work with InDesign and does it attract you to create something together with other students? Then
don’t hesitate!
On average we meet approximately once a month in which we discuss contents of the new issue and
divide the tasks. Every month some one takes care of the layout and all columns are devided among
the committee members. Everyone writes its own pieces individually and at the end of the month every
thing is put together and sent out. Though somethings are rather set already, most things are still open
for discussion and suggestions. For instance, last year we drastically changed the layout of the newsletter. Such changes or the introduction of new columns are more than welcome. Therefore, anyone who
wants to join the committee can really have an impact on its appearance and content. Let us know if
you’re interested in joining by sending an email to [email protected] or tell us in person at any
drinks or the Meet Cognito Meetitng!
Join the Cognito Board!
Dear Cognito newcomers,
One year from now, an unconscious smile will appear when
you hear the name “Cognito”.
You will associate it with amazing friendships, inspiring discussions and drunk nights in
Amsterdam. At least, this is
what happened to most of us.
We hope that you will have as
much fun as we had last year and
therefore the Cognito board will
make sure there are lots of possibilities to create these memories.
Yvette, Nelson, Ilva, Annemarie
and I will form the board of
Cognito until January. We will
mainly be concerned with helping the Social, Newsletter and
Yearbook committee, organising
our own stuff (i.e. lectures and a
brain slicing event) and gather
information about other events
of our faculty. We are the backbone of the Cognito family and
we are here for you.
In the beginning of the year we
will organize two events to help
you find an internship this year:
Internshit on September 23th
and Internquest (October 7th).
I know it seems early to already
think about this, but the internships will form a major part of
this master and it can be great!
Previous experiences will be
shared by students and researchers will present available internships at their labs. We hope this
will help you to find an internship that suits you and to survive
doing the internship in the end.
It might surprise you that this
master comes with such an enthusiastic student union, since
this is a rare thing for a master
programme, but you will see
soon enough that you have a
great deal in common with each
other. You will not only be working together a lot, you will find
shared interests and the common goal to let neuroscience get
to you. And this will be fun!
Now you know what we can do
for you, but there is also something you can do for us. Namely,
as I already mentioned, the composition of the Cognito board is
only settled until January, since
three of the five board members
will go abroad for their internships in the second semester.
There, we are now looking for
some new, enthusiastic members who are willing to help
organising the events! On average we meet every two to three
weeks and have dinner with
the whole committee to discuss
what’s going on within Cognito.
All in all, being board member
of Cognito won’t take much
time and is simply a lot of fun!
If you’re interest, just find one of
us to talk to, for instance at the
“Meet Cognito Meeting” we’re
organising at Tuesday 16 September.
Please let us know if you’re interested in joining one of the
committees or the board and let
us know if you want to join the
Meet Cognito Meeting by emailing to [email protected].
Board and committee members of 2013-2014
See you soon,
Marthe
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February 2014
Halloween
Party,
Picture by
Ilva Grond
Ice Skating,
Picture by
Alastair
Haigh
Bowling
Picture by
Joëlle Lafe
ber
Sinterklaas Evening
Picture by Myrthe Knetemann
Social Committee
Are you ready to challenge yourself? Are you capable of organizing events? Do you want to work with other motivated
and active students?
End BBQ
Picture by Lea
Himmer
Then you are a perfect candidate to join Cognito’s Social
Commitee where enthousiastic members organize a wide
range of activities! Last year we organized a Halloween
Party, Sinterklaas, bowling, ice skating, end-of-semesterbbq and most important; the Cognito Weekend. We aim at
organising an event every month and therefore meet every
2 weeks.
We are looking for 3
new committee members, to replace our
beloved friends; Kate,
Laura and Lea who
were members of the
2013/2014 committee. So if you want to
get involved, join us.
Don’t think about it,
just do it! :)
A bucket of love,
Epic Cognito weekend
Pictures by Renae
McCollum & Alastair
Haigh
The Social Commitee,
Jarik, Erik, Annike
and Miriam
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Last year’s social committee, consisting of, Erik,
Jarik, Miriam, Annike, Lea, Kate and Laura