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    I wonder

    Winter, good! Walk round comfortably in shorts and on flip-flops. No, not outside, but in your living-room! Landlords and Dutch students with foreign friends told Cursor that international students set the thermostat at 25 to 30°C in this cold season. ‘Could that really be true?’ the editors wondered.

    Iranian Ellaheh Barzegar heats up her place really well. “Our house has single glazing. When I come home it is 12°C, so then I always turn the heating up fully. Recently I have been told by Dutch people that it should actually be switched off during the night, so I do that now. Well, in Iran it doesn’t make all that much difference. We’ve got plenty of oil and gas.” Her colleagues at Mathematics for Industry are smiling. Colleague Luisa Benta (Portuguese) does not even switch on the heating. What? “No, the neighbors stoke up the hearth very hard, so when I get home it is 19°C.” Colleague Vivian Roode suspects a connection: “Do you have Iranian neighbors?”

    Chinese Qixiao Yu turns off the heating in the daytime, otherwise the air gets too dry. When she sleeps, though, she does so with the heating on. “There’s a draft coming through the windows. Without the heating I cannot sleep for the cold!”

    For that matter, when it is freezing outside it is advisable always to keep the thermostat at a minimum of 15°C with the radiators open, in order to prevent the pipes from freezing. (SK)

    Do you also have a burning question? Mail it to engcursor@tue.nl.