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1995 was the year I started playing go. I was a first-year student of the mechanical engineering study in the University of Twente. I played and studied for that year. Then I moved to Wageningen to study molecular science for one year. I did not play go that year but I started rowing at the WSR Argo rowing club. We were quite succesful that year. We won the Heineken Rowing Tournament and won three qualifying medals in the 2km season. Next year I moved back to Enschede to study mechanical engineering again and rowed too at the DRV Euros rowing club. We started the Head of the River in the leightweight first division and finished 3rd of 5. Later that year we won in the leightweight eights twice, once pure Euros and once Euros-Skadi-combination (Skadi is the rowing club of Rotterdam). The next year we rowed in the clubeights, a semi recreational semi professional way of rowing. We almost became dutch champions of the 2km-race but unfortunately one of our rowers caught a crab and this cost us the race. We rowed the Ringvaart Regatta in a coxed double four. This is a rowing marathon of 100 km. Besides rowing, cycling is one of my sports too. For 75 dutch guilders I bought a race-bicycle and a group of us cycled from Maastricht to Luzerne two years in a row in five days. Over there we could watch our friends row the Rotsee Regatta. Later on I moved to Braunschweig Germany to do a traineeship at the german space agancy DLR. We worked on the Mars Netlander, a Marslander that will be launched in 2007. I rowed at the rowing club Normannia Braunschweig and we competed in the Head of the River Thames. I came back to the University of Twente and did a final thesis: "On the modelling of sound radiation with the finite element method" (v.vanbruchem@alumnus.utwente.nl).
Something that fits in well with the research area of the university. Currently I am looking for a PhD thesis or a job in the industry. During my final thesis I took up the game of go again and competed in several tournaments. I have made it up to 5k once but I have gone down a bit :-(. I hope to be a dan player some day.