The TU/e offers a notebook arrangement with which you will be provided a notebook by the university for a big discount. These notebooks are currently offered by Hewlett-Packard, a notebook company that always delivers quality notebooks. Every year the state of the art machine with strong performance and a firm housing will be chosen and offered to the students. You are not obliged to get the notebook arrangement from the TU/e, but with this offer all the software that you will need in your study will be pre-installed so you can start from the go!
Next to the notebook, there is also an opportunity to buy a clicker which is used a lot on the TU/e during the lectures.
The lectures that you will follow will be distributed over the campus. For example, you will be following lectures from a certain course in the auditorium and the lectures from another course will be given at the paviljoen.
The clicker will be used during several courses. This is a little device that can be used to answer multiple questions presented during lectures. It’s possible that you will have to make some small quizzes during the lectures that will require you to answer with a clicker. So having a clicker is mandatory on the TU/e.
Eindhoven is one of the most bruising cities in the Netherlands and even with its high tech profile, a lot of student houses and apartments are relatively cheap compared to those the biggest Dutch cities. Searching for a place can be done by asking around, subscribing to websites where free rooms are offered by other inhabitants or through a large student housing organisation called Vestide.
The TU/e campus is located within the ring road which means it’s close to the center of Eindhoven. It can thus easily be reached from any direction which can already be noticed by simply glancing over the available houses and apartments.
GEWIS is the student association for Data Science and Wiskunde & Informatica (Mathematics & Informatics). Besides your hard studying, you should also relax sometimes. This relaxation could be done at GEWIS. Every thursday afternoon you can take a drink with your fellow students. But GEWIS also provides trips and some leisure activities. You can also learn to organize, since there are lots of different committees you can do.