AUC Wrapped 2025

By Charlotte Schnitger and Tijmen Schik

Dear AUC student,

Another year is at its end, and what a year it has been! Between January’s intensive and this last finals week before Christmas break, you have made countless memories – from shirtless dancing at Dormfest, to bringing home trophies from Paris (shoutout women/non-binary football!), to procrastinating your papers until 23:58. However, we expect that due to your excessive use of alcohol during the borrels and club nights, if you even managed to get there after the pre’s, a refresher is necessary. Therefore, we present to you: your personal AUC 2025 Wrapped (and we do it better than Spotify).

Congratulations! You spent a record-breaking 3.5 hours in line at the administration office after course registration this year. That is almost as much as you spent on filing complaints to DUWO, while still dripping wet from your freezing shower.

Talking about complaints: You reached 125 decibels at Peer Support’s end-of-year Scream Session. Still, your neighbour’s terrible taste in music blasted from their speakers even louder at exactly 02:00 am every Sunday. If only the music at Poesiat & Kater was allowed to reach that volume, maybe more students would actually come to the borrels.

However, your screams did not scare everyone away: you were the victim of major heists this year. When Carolina MacGillavrylaan gets robbed every few weeks, the whole world (aka your AUC bubble) is talking about it. They even tried to copy what happened at the Louvre this October, but they didn’t quite achieve the same level of social damage. Maybe more crowd engagement would have done the trick, but with AUC, this might be too much to ask.

To calm those nerves, you definitely deserved a sweet treat. In fact, you deserved a lot of them this year. Spar earned a total of 247,39 euros from your addiction to sugar in 2025. That amount could have gotten you a trip to Prague with Junket. Or 41 Winter Formal tickets. Or perhaps it could have paid for all those late-night Uber trips you took home from the club, after realising it was pouring rain. Actually, never mind, you probably lied about your Uber app not working and had someone else order them. Pay your Tikkies, you Scrooge!

On that note, the lowest Tikkies you sent/received were…

€0,35 – From your classmate who printed your Chat GPT summary for you, right before that one open-book exam, which you still ended up failing.
€0,75 – For each friend who put their jacket in the NYX locker you paid for.
€1,50 – For finishing half of your friend’s chocolate pepernoten after a dinner they invited you to.

Forget all those snacks – at least you recognize that a healthy home equals a healthy lifestyle. As the Dutch say, Oost west, thuis best. Let’s take a look at how you managed that this year…

The number of times you’ve had to tell your roommate to do the dishes: Too many to count. My God, no one does ANYTHING in this household.
The number of times your roommate asked you to do the dishes: Too many to count. Can’t they see you’re busy? How dare they even live in the same space as such a benevolent and kind roommate like yourself?
The number of times you’ve mopped the floor: Yeah, sure. If I walk in your room and my socks are not immediately ripped from my feet from your disgusting-asphalt-like floor, I’ll instantly ask to borrow money.
The number of times you wondered what type of mold is growing in the bathroom: 4 times. Per day. Let’s hope it’s the tasty kind.

But, living close together also facilitates a necessary environment for us students. Because, even though drinking is ALWAYS more enjoyable alone, sometimes it is nice to have some company. Like at a pre-game for example! Here are some classic pre-game drinking behaviours encountered at AUC. See if you recognise yourself!

You drink wine: What are you, 80 years old?
You drink shots: What are you, 16 years old?
You drink beer: Exactly, drink two six-packs and when you inevitably have to go to the bathroom later, just inconspicuously piss against the bar in the club while ordering more, like the distinguished and sophisticated student you are.
You drink too much and can’t go out: BOO! Everyone’s night is RUINED.
You drink too much, throw up, and can’t go out: Immediately promoted to the pinnacle of your friends’ social hierarchy.
You don’t drink at all: Everyone talks about you behind your back, they call your parents, your teachers AND the board of examiners to complain about you being lame – they agree immediately, you might get expelled.

Of course, we don’t drink to go to bed, and, as we all know, the Amsterdam nightlife NEVER disappoints.

Drinks consumed before attending the borrels: 4. Just stay home next time, man.
Times offered coke or any other illicit substance in clubs: 20. Say no to drugs, kids! Please send the phone numbers of these scoundrels to tijmen.schik@gmail.com so I know EXACTLY who to stay away from!

Favourite way to pass the time on Saturday morning after a night out: Saturday morning? You mean the time slot dedicated to the afters?
Time spent waiting in line for some dusty techno club, when you didn’t even want to go out: Longer than you actually spent inside the club.
Times you’ve shown up to the 9 am STILL drunk from the night before: Once. Come on, you only have a limited time to make a lasting impression on your professor, lock in!

But, as much as we try to escape the AUC bubble, it can have its moments. Moments that remind you of exactly why you went to study here, the community, the love, the interdisciplinary-multicultural-diversified-inclusive-societally-aware family that we all embrace. So, let’s look at some classic data of your time at AUC:

Times your laundry was respectfully placed in the appropriate bag you put there for that reason: Waaayyy too many, don’t these people here have any patience??
Laundry loads you deservingly tossed on the floor because some altruist left it there overnight: Not enough, parasites.
Leather jackets-per-capita count: 5.2. Wait, what? How is that even possible?
Minutes of awkward eye contact with the girl in your methods class:

30. Almost there, champ! Just keep staring at her and remember to visibly roll your eyes anytime billionaires are mentioned. She’ll talk to you at some point, probably.

Number of boards in AUC: 38.
Number of boards you can name in AUC: Probably like 4.
9 am lectures you promised yourself to attend: All of them.
Times you actually showed up to attend the 9 am lecture: Exactly the required amount.

And there we have it. From the always kind and rarely judgmental fellow students, to the completely unnecessary 40-page readings, to going out with 5 outstanding assignments and finely calculating which classes you have left to skip, AUC never bores. As suffocating as the bubble feels, at least we are all able to connect and laugh together about the almost unbearable struggle of going to a prestigious honours college in a first-world country. Now, please get out of here and visit your families. Happy holidays, and we will see you next year!