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July 16, 2025

…from my students I have learned most of all

Filed under: education — Duncan Hull @ 12:21 am
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“I have learned much from my teachers and even more from my friends, but from my students I have learned most of all”

From left to right, Minahil, Sambbhav and Muna, the latest graduand (now graduate) guests on the Hearing Your Future podcast. As of July 2025, there’s twenty one lessons (aka episodes) that students have taught me, maybe you’ll learn something from them too. 🎧

Graduation is one of the most enjoyable milestones in the academic calendar. It’s a chance for everyone to celebrate and reflect on what students have learned and how they have grown during the time they have spent at University. What makes it special (and possible) is the help of friends, families, speakers and supporters who come to mark the occasion with style and substance.

For the last three years, I’ve been hosting a fringe graduation event with graduands and graduates from a studio in the the Kilburn building, as part of an ongoing audio podcast. [1] The latest three episodes of the podcast are now available including:

Thanks to Minahil, Sambbhav and Muna for taking part, it’s always a pleasure to record these episodes, hear your stories and learn from the unique journeys you are taking. Listen or subscribe at:

Unless you count programming languages, I’m agnostic when it comes to religion, but the quote at the top of this page about learning most from your students comes from the Talmud. [2]

P.S. Sambbhav is looking for work in the UK, if you’re looking for engineers with experience, adaptability, good communication skills and intelligence, you should invite him to interview before somebody else snaps him up! linkedin.com/in/khare-sambbhav

References

  1. Hull, Duncan (2023). Amplifying student voices on employability with podcasts. figshare. Presentation. DOI:10.6084/m9.figshare.23726541.v1
  2. Chanina, Rabbi (Various dates) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud (Taanis 7a) 

Cite this blog post using DOI:10.59350/oreilly.11426 from rogue-scholar.org

July 28, 2022

What’s your story, coding glory?

Filed under: engineering — Duncan Hull @ 11:21 am
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Congratulations to all this years graduates!

Last week we celebrated graduation, its been the first proper graduation since before the pandemic. A lot proverbial water has passed very quickly under our proverbial bridge since this years graduates starting studying back in 2018/19. What obstacles have they faced during their study and placements and how have they overcome them? Where are they going next? What’s their story? I interviewed five of this years graduands and previous years graduates to find out. Hear from some of our students including:

  • Sneha Kandane, she’s returning Matillion where she did her industrial placement cdyf.me/sneha
  • Carmen who did an internship at McKinsey and a placement at The Walt Disney Company cdyf.me/carmen
  • Brian Yim Tam who did a placement at Disney Streaming here in Manchester cdyf.me/brian
  • Raluca Cruceru who did a placement at CERN where she now works as a software engineer cdyf.me/raluca
  • Jason Ozuzu who did a placement at Morgan Stanley, an internship at FitBit and is joining Google in London cdyf.me/jason

Listen online at Coding your Future or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts cdyf.me/hearing#subscribing

Congratulations to all this years graduates, it was lovely to celebrate your achievements despite the considerable challenges you’ve faced during the last three of four years. Thanks to Sneha, Carmen, Brian, Raluca and Jason for sharing your stories too.

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