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Ten days ago, I attended an edu-fair as a student advisor. Thinking back, it was probably one of the most interesting experiences I had while performing any job I had so far. The team was great, the aura was great and we had lots of fun. In essence, that’s all you need to have a good time.

Yesterday, I attended another edu-fair, again, as a student advisor and I was actually looking forward to it. I was hoping that we could top the amount of fun we had last time, help more people and get to know some more people, but alas - the experience was rather … disappointing.

A few years ago, back when I was about to decide which college to go to, my options were a purely artistic college and a rather young college, with courses focussed towards communication and multimedia design.

Since I don’t really see myself as an “analogue artist” but rather a digital one, I opted for the second one. Sometimes I think back, how it could have been. After all, the first mentioned college trained some of the Netherlands most famous artists and to be allowed to join those ranks would be something great certainly. Either way, I don’t regret my decision and I’m proud to be a “CMD student”.

Back on topic, yesterday I got my first chance to talk to a tutor from the artists college and gosh … that lady has some serious issues. Sure, their college is great, many great people graduated there, but I don’t personally consider that a reason to rant about other colleges. No matter if they’re part of your own college group (like my college) or not.

There are many reasons why you shouldn’t do it, a few of them being that it is immature, very unprofessional and that it’s just plain wrong, yet that tutor decided that her college was better than others and felt obligated to carry out her verbal battle with me in front of a possible future student. She went on about how students from my college are less artistic and less creative and how their students are the true Picassos, Van Goghs etc.

I discussed this issue with a few students (from my college) and all of them agree that her behaviour was plain wrong. I personally think that the student in question wont join us next year, after all - the first impression he got from our school was that we like to bitch.

Now, if that lady decides to rave about her own college, I’d like her to go right ahead, but she shouldn’t do it at the cost of our, or any other college, for that matter.

As if that wasn’t enough, their stand was also the only one that didn’t fit the CI of our 9 other stands. She decided that their stand deserved loads of posters and empty soda cans on the table, even though we were told to make sure that all stands looked as clean and inviting as possible at any time during the fair.

That said, all in all the fair was less disappointing than that incident but still not great. Most people weren’t really motivated to promote their courses in an interesting way and I’m quite sure that most people interested in our college were getting a totally wrong impression.

So, if you’re one of the people who stopped by yesterday and think that our college isn’t really “gezellig” and just blows, I apologize. Feel free to come to one of our walk-in days, for example the one on November 18th, 2006. We’ll be present with a great team from 10 am till 3 pm and you’ll be able to experience our “chemistry”.