Congratulations to all fuksis and DG members for having finished Period 1 – big props for surviving deadlines and exams!
Now that autumn’s in full swing, let’s catch up on what’s been happening 👇
Here’s a cute picture of Minnie to brighten up the gloomy autumn days!
Continuing series of bad programming jokes:
Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs.
0. Calendar
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11.10 Pre(xam) Party + Guild Uprising
19.10 DG’s Casino Night
29.10 DG’s Election Meeting
31.10 PT x DG x SIK Halloween Night
31.10 Laulukilpailusitsit (The Song Contest Sitsit)
1. Guild
11.10 Pre(xam) Party + Guild Uprising
What do the Board and Officials actually do? What’s the difference between them? And why does DG have so many committees? If you’re a fuksi or you’ve ever wondered how Data Guild really works behind the scenes, then you won’t want to miss this!
📅 Saturday, October 11th
📍Living Room (JMT5) We’re combining two events into one:
🎊 Pre(xam) Party kicks off at 12:00 – This is your opportunity to study with fellow guild members for the upcoming exam week! We’ll provide some light snacks to fuel your study session 🛫
🔥 At 17:00, Guild Uprising starts! During Guild Uprising, the Board and Officials of Data Guild will introduce their roles, responsibilities, and committees. This is the perfect chance to get to know how DG works, talk one on one with the members of the board and officials, and prepare for the upcoming elections. 📥 We’ll have board games and a chill hangout afterwards! 🥳
‼️Fuksis‼️Just by showing up, you’ll earn 1 fuksi point. 😉
19.10 DG’s Casino Night
The time has come to cool your nerves, deploy your best poker face and wish for the best: 🎰🃏DCCC Casino Night🃏🎰 is back!! A night of excitement and sweaty palms! Come test your luck and skill with four fun games we’ve prepared for your entertainment ✨ Small prizes will be awarded to the best players… and the luckiest 🏆 Snacks are included!
The event will be a chill night where you can test your luck or skill at famous casino games 🃏 As with any classy casino, the night will have a business casual dresscode! 🎩
A quick disclaimer: our event does not involve gambling as defined in Finland’s law, nor do the event organizers encourage such activity. No actual money will be used during the games.
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TLDR;
What: DG Casino Night
When: 19th October at 18:00
Where: 100 Monkeys bar, JMT11
Price: 10€ (includes food)
Signup is binding
29.10 DG’s Election Meeting
‼️IT’S TIME FOR THE ELECTIONS‼️
Data Guild’s Election Meeting is on 📅October 29th at 17:00📅 held in 📍Undergraduate Center’s (Otakaari 1) E Hall📍.
Members of Data Guild will receive a formal invitation by email on Monday, October 13th. If you don’t receive the email, you are not a member of Data Guild and will not have the right to vote, so please remember to apply for membership. This year’s elections will only elect the Board of 2026, and the newly elected board will decide their method of electing the Officials of 2026. Applicants and nominations for the Officials will, however, be announced at the election meeting.
This is your opportunity to get the position you’ve been dreaming about and make big changes to the guild! Applications are open for positions in the Board and Officials, so….
Guild Uprising material is available here, as a reminder on the structure of the board and officials and the election format.
31.10 PT x DG x SIK Halloween Night
PT x DG x SIK Halloween Night 31.10. 👻
The Teekkari Village has recently been plagued by an unusually high number of misfortunes. The captains have joined forces to investigate whether supernatural forces might be behind these events, or perhaps the haunted history makes its comeback 😰 We need your help to ensure that all this evil doesn’t end in the fate of OtaOnnela…
Let’s celebrate Halloween together with The Guild of Process Engineering Students, Data Guild and the Guild of Electrical Engineering on Friday, October 31st starting at 5:00 PM! As the evening darkens, we’ll wander around Otaniemi together to uncover the source of all this. The night will culminate in an afterparty at Rantasauna, with a hot tub and sauna. Event registration opens in Data Guild’s event machine today, and each guild has its own fuksi quota. You can name one person to be on your team when registering!
TL;DR
WHAT? PT x DG x SIK Halloween Night
WHERE? Start at the bird tower, in Teekkari village and afterparty at Rantsu. Take your sauna gear!
WHEN? October 31st at 5:00 PM.
WHY? Save the Teekkari Village (PT🩶DG🤍SIK)!!
DC? Spooky halloween outfit + overalls if you have them!
2. AYY and fun
29.10 Night at the Museum
🌲 Night at the Museum 🌳
The forest has crept into the Museum of Student Culture. Darkness has taken over what light once ruled, and cold fog seeps through the cracks. Amidst the remnants of forgotten traditions, something ancient watches… Do you dare to face your fears and find your way through the forest?
This year, Night at the Museum is being held as an escape room with an Abandoned Forest theme, which promises to challenge you with brand new exciting puzzles and spine-chilling surprises. Bring your friends (or venture in alone and meet new ones!) and get ready to find your way out before the last light goes out.
Can you escape in time? 🔒🌙
🌫️What? Abandoned Forest escape room
🌫️Where? Museum of Student Life, Jämeräntaival 3
🌫️When? 29.10.2025, 30 minute escape room games starting from 18:00
🌫️Price? 5 € per team, 2 € individual ticket
Important information about registration!
The escape room game is played in teams of four to five players. You can sign up either with a complete team of five or as an individual player.
For group registration, one person fills in the information of all five players in the registration form. For individual tickets, participants can sign up to the teams reserved for individual tickets.
Overall patch is included in the registration for all the players!
Registration opens on Friday, 17.10.2025 at 12:00. Spots are limited, so make sure to secure yours on time! Further details will be sent to participants by email closer to the event.
Please arrive on time, at least 15 minutes before your game is scheduled to start, at Pelimanni, Jämeräntaival 3, where the game rules will be explained.
30.10 Voting in the Representative Council election
Voting in the Representative Council election opens on 30 Oct at 12 noon and closes on 6 Nov at 15.00 at vaalit.ayy.fi.
In this election, 45 students will be elected to serve a two-year term on AYY’s Representative Council and to make decisions about the student union’s affairs; meaning the affairs of all of us! By voting, you can influence the direction in which the student union will develop!
Not sure who to vote for? Check these out:
– Election compass at vaalikone.syl.fi/ayy
– Election panel 30 Oct at 18.00 at OUBS studio (Jämeräntaival 1) and AYY’s YouTube channel
– Campaign event 3–5 Nov at 15.00–17.00 at Korkeakouluaukio Square
– Electoral alliance introductions in AYY’s Instagram stories and highlights
The results will be announced at AYY’s and KY’s election night event at Saha on 6 Nov from 18.00 onwards. You are welcome to attend the event or follow the live stream on AYY’s YouTube channel.
30.10 Representative Council election panel
The election panel brings together the electoral alliance to discuss the student union’s current affairs! Come and watch as the candidates go head-to-head in AYY’s RepCo election panel on 30 Oct at 18.00 at the OUBS studio at Jämeräntaival 1. The audience will have the opportunity to present questions to the candidates. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
You can also follow the live stream from the comfort of your own couch via AYY’s YouTube channel. English interpretation will be available.
31.10 The Polytech Orchestra’s autumn concerts
In the Autumn Concerts we celebrate forgotten masterpieces and the composers behind them. Aarre Merikanto was a modern visionary, ahead of his time as a composer. His Intrada sparkles with the exotic expression of the early 20th century, as if baroque dances had been draped in an opium-lit cloak. The Parisian organ virtuoso Alexandre Guilmant, for his part, remained as a composer in the shadow of his students Nadia Boulanger and César Franck, even though his symphony already offers a foretaste of Impressionism, embraced by a romantic pastoral world. The Finnish-Swedish composer Ida Moberg was highly educated—among other places in St. Petersburg and Dresden—yet her output was initially erased from the history books. Now her masterpieces are beginning to receive the recognition they deserve, not only in Finland but internationally as well. The child prodigy Florence Price gave her first piano recital at the age of four. The first work in her oeuvre of more than 300 compositions was published when she was eleven. Known also as an organist, Price wrote symphonies that overflow with sonic richness—rhythms and harmonies evocative of Debussy, Wagner, and African-American dance culture—alongside a distinctive, instantly recognizable musical voice. To our knowledge, Price’s Third Symphony is now being heard in Finland for the very first time!
Autumn Concert Fri 31.10.2025 6pm
Espoonlahti Church, Espoo
Program
Aarre Merikanto: Intrada
Alexandre Guilmant: Symphony No. 1, organ soloist Leo Lahonen
Ida Moberg: Parts from the symphonic poem Sunrise
Florence Price: Sympony No. 3
31.10 Laulukilpailusitsit / Song Contest Sitsit
The Song Contest Sitsit is approaching! 🎶
It’s time to sing something brand new! The creations of the 2025 Song Contest will be performed at the Song Contest Sitsit, which kicks off the Teekkari Tradition Week. A distinguished jury will also announce the winners in each category during the evening. So if you want to be among the first to hear the newest masterpieces — or simply enjoy great company and fresh lyrics — these sitsit are just for you! 🤩
The Song Contest Sitsit will take place on October 31 in OK20 upstairs. Doors open at 18:00, and the gong will sound at 18:30. All members of the Aalto community are warmly welcome, regardless of whether you’ve taken part in the contest or not.
You can find the registration form and more information about the contest through the link provided. By submitting a song, you get a chance to buy your ticket straight away.
General ticket sales for the sitsit will open on 20.10.25 at 12:00 on Kide.app! 🦭
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact @lukkaritirehtoori on Telegram.
3. Aalto, studies, and work opportunities
Application period for SCI Dean’s incentive scholarship
The application period for SCI Dean’s incentive scholarship has started on Friday, 3 October 2025. Application instructions have been sent by email to students who are eligible for the scholarship according to the student register data. The deadline for applying for the scholarship is 31 October 2025.
The scholarship of 500 euros is awarded upon application to students of School of Science who have completed the target of 60 credits during the academic year (1 August 2024–31 July 2025), which are mainly included or are to be included in the bachelor’s or master’s degree. Getting the scholarship also requires completing the degree within the normative duration of studies.
If you meet the criteria for the scholarship but have not received the application instructions via email, please contact studentservices@aalto.fi during the application period. Late applications will not be considered.
Read more about the scholarship and criteria on your own programme’s Student Guide, Applications section.
Scholarship from Professor E. J. Nyström funds
School of Science declares the following scholarship from the scholarship fund for application by Aalto University undergraduates or Bachelors of Science:
From Professor E. J. Nyström fund’s returns 1000 euro scholarships to undergraduates from Bachelor of Science programs or Bachelors of Science from well-performed studies focused on so-called Professor Nyström’s subjects.
List of courses from Professor Nyström’s subjects is found in the application form (opens 9.10.2025). Attach your official (electric) study transcript to the application. Fill in the application by Monday 10 Nov 2025.
Call for teaching assistants for CS courses in spring 2026!
Interested in computer science courses and have a passion for working with peers? Apply for a teaching assistant position in spring 2025 CS courses!
Courses participating in this joint call are listed below with descriptions of the tasks. The contact persons are happy to give you more information by email.
Applications are submitted here: Application pool. Deadline is 10 November 2025, but applicants may be interviewed and hired already during the application period.
You will get a compensation depending on the work load you will do.
Nomination of candidates, election of Aalto University’s Academic Affairs Committees
Members of the Academic Affairs Committees of Aalto University and all Aalto University schools will be elected for the term 1 January 2026 – 31 December 2029. At the same time, members of the Professors’ Council working committee will also be elected.
Those eligible in elections may sign up to be a candidate between 20 and 29 October 2025. Professors, other teaching and research staff and other personnel and students will each elect their representatives separately in their groups. In professors´ group, official election meetings at Schools will be organised by November 7th 2025, and the candidates may sign up until the meeting is held.
Aalto News: Run for academic committees and make an impact | Aalto University
Further information on the nomination of candidates and the elections and has been published on Aalto.fi: The election of Academic Committees | Aalto University
An inspection of the study environment on Aalto university’s campuses, take the survey and make an impact!
All students are invited to answer the anonymous well-being survey from October 27 2025 to November 10 2025. The survey is part of the inspection of the study environment and is coordinated by FSHS.
A statutory inspection of the health, safety and well-being of the study environment is carried out in higher education institutions every three years. This year, there will be a single inspection for the whole Aalto University. The Finnish Student Health Service (FSHS) has the coordination responsibility. The inspections are carried out in cooperation with the students, the university staff and the municipality’s health inspector.
The inspection includes a well-being survey sent to all students. The answers to the survey give important information on how the students are doing in the student communities. The students answer the survey anonymously and then automatically receive feedback and instructions based on their answers. The answers are used to create a report for FSHS healthcare professionals, University and student representatives. The report will be utilized both locally and nationally. This study environment inspection focuses on issues such as do students have time to eat between lectures, does the university environment support the possibility of physical activity and do the students experience inappropriate treatment within the student communities. Issues that need development may be related to themes such as a safe studying environment or a framework for organizing studies.
FSHS invites all students to answer the well-being questionnaire as part of the inspection from October 27 2025 to November 10 2025, when the link is open for
Espoo unit at https://yths.msurvey.fi/#survey?id=167647
Mikkeli unit at https://yths.msurvey.fi/#survey?id=825199
Students will receive a link to the survey also by e-mail from university and in AYY’s newsletter by e-mail.
It will take about 5-10 minutes to complete the survey. Every answer is important, participate and make an impact!
SCI Student & Alumni Networking Event 2025 for International Master’s students
Aalto University School of Science welcomes their first-year master’s students to meet and mingle with the alumni graduated from the same school. The event is intended to be the first step on your career design path at Aalto, where you will get inspiration for your future direction.
When: 27.11.2025 16:30–18:30 (UTC +2)
Where: CS Building, (Tietotekniikan talo), Otaniemi Campus, Konemiehentie 2
Registration period: 22.9.2025–18.11.2025 – Register on JobTeaser
The idea of the Student & Alumni networking event is to encourage international Master’s students to create networks, learn new things and find interesting career paths in Finland. In the event, you will meet former students, i.e. alumni, who have graduated from different degree programmes of School of Science. The event is for international students who are studying their first year in any of the Master’s programmes at the School of Science (except double-degree students). Due to space limitations, priority may be given to them if the event gets full.
See the full programme on JobTeaser event page.
4. Other
The Fyysikkospeksi Final Finnish shows 27.-28.10. – English performances in November ⚓
Fyysikkospeksi 2025: Aye Aye, Captain will be performed twice more in Finnish at Louhisali in Espoo on October 27 and 28.
If you haven’t yet seen it, this is your last chance to come aboard the M/S SinCos and witness what happens when an idealistic sea captain student begins her first day under the fiery Captain Juniper. As discontent spreads among the crew, tensions rise and loyalties are tested – can the ship stay on course, or is a shipwreck inevitable.
Tickets and more information at fyysikkospeksi.fi
🎙️ANNOUNCEMENT🎙️
Now is time to go all in because ⚡OIKOSULKU⚡ is here ✨
✨The year’s most hyped party on 17.11.✨
♣️♦️🥂INFO🥂♦️♣️
🍾Where? Otakaari 20
🃏When? 17.11. 19-02
🎺What? The most electrifying event of the year — where nothing is held back
🎩DC? dark suit — dress to impress
🏆TICKETS?!?! 9 € — Kide 27.10. at 12.00 (patch included)
💋Telegram: t.me/oikosulku25
See you at Oikosulku!
📣💜LIUKUHIHNA💜📣
Are you already tired of your second-period courses and the dark winter days🥱🛌❓ Craving a bit of cinematic magic in your everyday life🎬🪄❓ Don’t worry, the solution is here: ‼️💥Liukuhihna💥‼️
This night is pure movie magic, as Smökki transforms into Otaniemi’s very own Hollywood for one ✨sparkling✨ evening🍿🍿.
Join the official Telegram channel here! 💥💥https://t.me/c/2414681410/503💥💥
TL;DR:
⁉️What? LIUKUHIHNA
📍Where? Smökki
🗓When? November 13th, doors open at 19:00
🤵Dress code? Movie characters (or overalls!)
🎫Tickets? Available from October 29th, limited amount!!!
🤑Price? Only €12!! (includes an overall patch ❤️🔥)
DASH Bit #3: Building on Shifting Ground: Why Creativity Still Matters
What does it take to build meaning, value, and beauty in today’s world?
AI is changing how we imagine, build, and create. Still, this just might be the new golden age of design. ✨
Sami Niemelä, Head of Design at InParallel, will share his journey of building an AI-native platform from the ground up.
📅 November 5th at 18:00–20:00
📍 The Stage, Design Factory, Puumiehenkuja 5, Espoo
🔗 Sign-up opens here: https://luma.com/ki7a8rw9 on 27.10. at 15:00 –seats are limited!
Ps. Don’t wanna miss any of our events? Join the DASH Community channel https://t.me/+Rmt7koS9YfdjOGVk!
5. Finnish corner
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