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The Bath alumni blog: stories from campus and beyond
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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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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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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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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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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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Update from Vivian Ching, Hong Kong Alumni Chapter
As the External Affairs Director of the University of Bath's Hong Kong Alumni Chapter, I have always been actively involved with maximizing the exposure of the University through alumni activities in Hong Kong, enabling various opportunities to closely collaborate with...
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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...
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What's on YOUR playlist?
The Rolling Stones – Paint it Black House of Pain – Jump Around S Club 7 – Reach for the Stars Everyone seems to have one key tune that epitomises their uni days - what’s yours? We’ve just launched ‘project...
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One for the tree?
Thanks to Sarah for sharing her experience of the last alumni event of 2013 - a bauble-blowing extravaganza at Bath Aqua Glass - and best wishes for the new year from all of us in the Alumni Relations team: How could I...
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A great night in Mexico
MBA alumna Yadira Contreras writes about the Bath alumni community in Mexico: Since I left Bath (around 4 years ago), I try to attend to every event organized by the University in Mexico. There isn’t a Mexican Alumni Chapter; I...
