Rachel Skerry
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Rachel SkerryMay 23, 2014
A very special place
Bath is a very special place to me. So when I received the 2014 Alumni event invitation I immediately made plans to attend. Sure we’d had an informal 20th anniversary get together in Bath for the 1984 Engineering Class. I’d...
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Rachel SkerryMay 21, 2014
Alumni Reunion 2014: listen again
On Reunion day, URB DJ Darius was out and about with the roving mic interviewing alumni. Listen to some of the highlights: If you are unable to play the audio using Internet Explorer, please try a different browser such as Firefox or...
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Rachel SkerryMay 16, 2014
A day to remember
Thanks to graduates Biddy and Kevin for their brilliant blog posts about Saturday's Alumni Reunion - scroll down to read. Also feast your eyes on these archive photos which we dug out especially for the occasion - Biddy, hope you can spot...
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Rachel SkerryMay 16, 2014
As the train drew in to Bath Spa station...
As the train drew into Bath Spa station I looked at the beautiful city I had lived in for four years. The sun was shining - it was going to be a great weekend. That evening , dinner and a wander...
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Rachel SkerryMay 16, 2014
Could a reunion be inspirational?
Could a reunion be inspirational? This wasn’t the question at the forefront of my mind as I agreed to attend the University of Bath reunion. I have been back to the City of Bath numerous times, but have never ventured...
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Rachel SkerryMay 7, 2014
Day 4: Business time
The final instalment from our Apps Crunch winners: It was business time. We’d spent a day looking at the big guys in tech, Facebook and Google. We’d spent a day looking around smaller startups to see how the faster paced...
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Rachel SkerryMay 2, 2014
Day 3: "Coding is easy, people are hard"
More from our Apps Crunch winners in California: Full on sleep but lacking in breakfast, today was a look at smaller startups and what it was like to work in the city, rather than an offsite campus. First stop was...
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Rachel SkerryApril 30, 2014
Day 2: Google. Google Google Google.
The second instalment from Apps Crunch winners Tristan, Ashton and Ryan on their Silicon Valley adventure: Google. Google Google Google. It was hard to believe we were really driving there; the famous googleplex. Entering the first building, it was exactly what...
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Rachel SkerryApril 30, 2014
Day 1: Claverton Down to Silicon Valley
Computer Science students Ryan, Tristan and Ashton won the University's Apps Crunch competition to design an original app. Their prize was a trip to California to meet Bath alumni and other representatives from leading tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Eventbrite and...
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Rachel SkerryApril 2, 2014
Meeting my mentor
Final year student Ruth is taking part in our pilot mentoring programme. She writes about the experience of meeting her graduate mentor for the first time: "I’ve only ever been on one blind date. Nervously waiting for a friend of...