- Intro
- 19/08/2026
Intro blog | Wednesday: workshops, clouds & Stratumseind
On day 3 of the Intro, new TU/e students take part in a wide range of workshops – cultural, sports-related and otherwise – spread across the campus, which is shrouded in a thick blanket of clouds. After dinner at the study assocations, it’s time to explore Eindhoven’s nightlife—or to wrap up the day on a slightly less wild note at Intro Unwind.
In this blog, we’re following the day as it unfolds. We’ll be updating the article throughout the day with the latest news, highlights, and photos.
Racing on the track
On the field behind Atlas, Sebastiaan Wories and Joris Scheublin of the Eindhoven Student Automotive Association (E.S.A.V.) De Beunbazen are making the final preparations for the workshop. Under a tent, a racing simulator is ready to go. Intro participants can take a virtual lap around the Spa-Francorchamps or Monza circuits.
But there is also a line of real cars ready to take out for a spin, including Wories’ classic red Ford Escort. An Audi A6 is up on a jack, ready to be worked on.
Scheublin (center in the photo) and Wories (right) are still debating how difficult a task to give the Intro participants: are they setting the bar too low? After all, changing a wheel may not be the greatest challenge imaginable.
This article was translated using AI-assisted tools and reviewed by an editor.
A keg of lemonade
On the Flux field, members of study association Thor are busy serving lemonade. The familiar car bar is not allowed to start serving beer until 16:30. The keg that has just been filled with a mixture of lemonade and water still needs to be mixed. The Thor members do this by rolling it back and forth across the grass.
It is still quiet on the Flux field early in the afternoon. Every now and then, someone stops by for a glass of lemonade. Things will get busier as the afternoon progresses. People here still vividly remember last year, when the beer keg was hooked up at exactly half past five. The line of thirsty Intro participants was so long that they kept pouring beer continuously until the keg was empty.
One of the five games Doppio plays with first-year students during the introduction period is “the emotion bus.” At each stop, a bus driver picks up a passenger experiencing a different emotion. The other passengers then have to adopt that emotion.
The first bus driver, an enthusiastic civil engineering student, responds on the spot to a gloomy passenger. “Sorry I’m not driving a limousine for you.” Later, when he wants to calm down a crying child, he says in the English-language scene: “Take some zoute drop.” And when a very cheerful female student gets on after just passing her driving test, he happily hands her the wheel.
Press conference
As the improvisation unfolds, it turns into a very funny play. But Doppio doesn’t stop at the laughter; there is also a debrief afterward. “It doesn’t work well when one person keeps demanding and getting all the attention. It does work when you find a common thread together.”
Another exercise is “the press conference.” One player does not know what role she will play or what scenario she will be in. While the Data Science student waits in the hallway, the remaining “journalists” decide on her role. During the press conference game, she has to figure out who she is and she is allowed to guess at the end. “Was I Trump?” No. But it was fun.
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