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vivdunstan ([personal profile] vivdunstan) wrote2024-07-06 10:51 pm
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Graduation 30 years ago today!

Just realised Martin and I - plus pal Andrew - graduated 30 years ago today at St Andrews University! We hope to get video clips soon, but the uni haven't got them to us yet. Meanwhile here's the Dundee Courier page from that day, 6 July 1994. Listing the 3 of us - me and Andrew Computer Science, Martin Astronomy + Physics.

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[personal profile] vivdunstan 2024-07-08 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Ok. We graduated in 1994 and I started my CS PhD that autumn aged 22. But Martin did a 1-year conversion degree at Edinburgh first before starting his PhD in autumn 1995 aged 24.
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[personal profile] a_cubed 2024-07-08 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, I hadn't recalled that Martin started a year after you and I did. He and I overlapped at St Andrews from 95-2000 so the early details are a bit fuzzy.
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[personal profile] vivdunstan 2024-07-10 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup - Ursula popped into my office to see me part way through my first year, and ask if Martin might be interested in a PhD opportunity! He was still in the middle of his 1-year conversion degree then.
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