Computer Scientist in the Wild

When I decided that I wanted to go to university, at the top of my list was to find somewhere that would let me spend some time abroad.  I went to uni quite close to home and I felt that

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After a semester in Singapore…

Everyone I had talked to about being on an exchange semester/year told me it had been an amazing and highly recommended episode of their lives and explained how much it had changed them. Most of them also mentioned the reverse

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The Delights of Geneva

I should like the window to open onto the Lake of Geneva — and there I’d sit and read all day -John Keats, 1819 When I chose to go to CERN I expected to gain some experience in the world

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CERN Study Abroad

The final year of my physics degree was hard work. With lots of late nights worrying that I would not have anything to write for my dissertation . But with the gift of hindsight (and my degree) I can see

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