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Greetings, dear reader! Hopefully you are starting your week  full of new ideas that can contribute to the lives of your fellow humans in a meaningful way. That way you won’t have to appeal to confusing self-referential structures in order to hide your lack of creativity because you will be able to focus on all that  is dear to you! Doesn’t that sound fulfilling? The theme of this week is “the theme”. For those who don’t know what the theme is: it’s “the theme”.  I just communicated that to you. Try to read with more attention!

Monday there will be no activities organized.

On Tuesday, the day that thematically follows a Monday, you can come to the fakbar at the M-café from 9pm, just like every other Tuesday evening. But it won’t be your usual beloved bartenders serving you.  To promote the yearly Student Questionnaire about the quality of certain classes you might have taken, some professors will take place behind the bar.  Three names are already know: Dean Gerd Van Riel will be assisted by Filip “Clarifier of concepts” Buekens and Griet Galle, who will lead you through the maze of information. But wait, there’s more!  If the HIW reaches a response degree of 50%, NFK will treat everyone present to some fantastic discounts.  For more information you can look at the facebookevent. If you haven’t filled in your questionnaire yet, you can find it on Toledo!

Wednesday and Thursday there are no activities. To pass your time, you can try to figure out why “the theme” is the theme, the subject is “the theme” but the theme is not “the subject” because that would be “the theme” (the subject).  Alternatively, you can spend your time in a more meaningful way trying to make something of your motivation and ideas.

Friday there’s a breadmeal in the lounge from 12am until 2pm, just like always.

So, this was NFKickassactivities for this week. Next week we will be back with a theme that’s at least as inspiring and original as “the theme”. See you then!

Greetings, dear reader.  This week is once again a new week, as expected. And we all know what that means: a brand new NFKickassactivities. Because of the upcoming lecture of prof. Van Bendeghem I was planning on writing a mathematics-themed NFKickassactivities. Sadly, my intellectual abilities are limited. I therefore chose a simple theme: 1. “What is ‘1’?” some might ask themselves.  The number “1” is the natural number following 0 and preceding 2. It’s also the atom number of hydrogen. Is that it? I don’t know. I’m not a mathematician. Plotinus spoke of “the One” as the ultimate transcendent reality, beyond beginning and end of existence.  Hopefully that clears matters up.

Monday is the first day of the week. At least according to NFKickassactivities. Why that is, I can’t say. NFKickassactivities never reveals its secrets. What I can tell you is this: there are no activities planned on Monday.

A fun fact for the fans: Despite being only divisible by 1 and itself, the number 1 is not considered  a prime number. Too bad, number 1. Better luck next time!

Tuesday evening there is the Thomasfak, a special fakbar  for the occasion of the Thomas celebration. From 9pm on you are welcome in the one and only M-café to celebrate the existence of Thomas Aquinas together with your peers and to build strong friendships along the way. According a website that looks halfway reliable, Thomas once said that there’s nothing to be prized more on this earth than true friendship. In my opinion anyone who agrees with that has obviously never imagined a world without “1”. Go ahead and try. Would you be able to assure your existence in the unimaginable existential chaos that comes with a world without unity with friendship? That’s right, I didn’t think so.

On Wednesday, the Institute celebrates. The Thomascelebration, namely.  Because such an event occurs only once a year, all classes of philosophical subjects after 2pm will be suspended. The Thomascelebration starts at 2pm with a mass in the Chapel of the Leo XIII seminar. At 3h30 pm Prof. Jean-Paul Van Bendegem will give a guest lecture in the Cardinal Mercier Hall, titled “The Beauty of Noise.” Afterwards there will be a reception. At 7h30 pm there will be  a cheese and wine eveining in the big hall of the Leo XIII seminar.

To give everyone the opportunity to get some rest after all this partying,  there are no activities planned activities on Thursday. To fill your time you might contemplate why a deck of playing cards has aces instead of ones.

Friday there is a breadmeal in the lounge from 12 am until 2 pm like every week. Feel free to come and consume bread and other foods in the company of your peers for democratic prices. “What prices?”, some of you might be asking. Well, at least more than one euro.

Extra: This week LOKO is organizing the Ithaka arts festival.  The whole week they will show a multitude of artistic works in one of Leuvens most beautiful locations.  A really good