Information in english

Hello and welcome to GEOLF…

…the students organisation for geography students at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.

It is our wish that we geography-students get to know each other better – across the “grades”. Therefore our goal is to lighten up the sometimes somewhat boring or stressful campus life with exhilarating and colorful events. Such events include everything from exam-parties over GeoQuiz to our traditional main event the GeoGala.

Examples? Well… We had our share of very successful theme parties, such as pirate, super hero or the tunic-festival. Then there is GeoPils, once every other week – a kind of a traditional come together at a local bar, and GeoGym, very important to keep us in shape so that we can manage to climb the mountains and glaciers that we want to analyse as well as being fit enough to walk long hours, armed with our questionaire around the local market place to gather more or less significant information about various habits and/or other stuff.

Then there is the utmost important Fagdag (norwegian for “What will I be when I become a (big) geographer?”). Here, we invite people who have an education in geography to tell us about their job(s) and their career, to give us an inspiration of what we might want to become.

As studentorganisation we also have a mascot. Our beloved Geir Globus! He is, as the name indicates, a globe and always keen to meet new geographers. He claims that he knows everything there is to know about geography – well…although we doubt that we still love him. Sometimes he invites us to one of his special events and he seldom says no to a little drink or two… in other words: a very social type!

Since the Annual Congress (AC) in Romania in september 2010, Trondheim is an acknowledged entity of the European Geography Organisation for Students and Young Geographers, EGEA. Although EGEA Trondheim is still young, we already managed to organise an exchange with EGEA Helsinki and furthermore participated in two congresses, the AC in  2010 and the North and Baltic Regional Congress in St. Petersburg in early 2011.
We are, of course, looking forward to this years AC in Bavaria.