Thanks for the questions, and good luck to your campaign as well!
I think finding an apartment is the most stressful part of joining Aalto and the best way to alleviate this is by clearly informing how to apply for AYY and HOAS housing. Apart from that, just keeping people notified through telegram of events and how to join to clubs etc.
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I haven’t faced any difficult situations in terms of cultural differences but I think open mindedness goes a long way in these situations.
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It’s hard to say without a context and (hopefully) there are two of us so we don’t have to make the choice. However, if I had to choose and didn’t have any information in addition to that, I think I’d go to KvTMK because I see role of international captain being there for international students.
4.
Unfortunately, no.
5.
I think, there are enough songs for sitsis but I’d hope there were more variety in the songs sung in sauna. As a captain, I will memorize couple more good songs to teach in the sauna.
Paratrooper is my favourite in sauna due to it’s humorous lyrics and it being very easy to sing along even if you’ve never head it before.
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Maybe we could add a “commitee” checkpoint to some sauna evening where they could get flyers about different ways to be part of the guild and they could ask questions if somethings unclear.
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Nevahööd
8.
I think last year there was different trip to Suomenlinna organised by ESN so making sure it’s something they wouldn’t do otherwise is a good idea.
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It’s hard for me because I always wanted to be international ISO so I don’t get why people aren’t interested. Maybe we could have proper advertisement checkpoint on some event close to possible Wappu.