Squeeze the orange
Dr Adam Boggon (BSc 2012) is a current Fulbright scholar at Harvard. Here he describes the importance of ‘squeezing the orange’ – a principle he first learned at St Andrews…
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Santander Universities to the rescue!
Siobhan Dooley, MA 2013, is currently working towards submitting her PhD thesis at the University of St Andrews. She applied for and won one of the ten £1000 grants that…
Swimming for Kate
Andre Phillips (BSc Biology 2014, PhD 2018) describes his Swim Around Arran in memory of fellow student Kate Mowatt.
Discovering the power of words
Molly Arbuthnott (MA 2010) describes how her route to becoming a successful award-winning children’s author involved Art History at St Andrews, primary teaching in Kenya, Italy and London and a…
‘Grandpa Ernest Speaks’
Madeleine Bazil (MA 2018) describes her path from studying English Literature at St Andrews to writing and directing ‘Grandpa Ernest Speaks’ – a documentary about her great-grandfather Ernest’s escape from…
Journey to the West
Anita Lai (MLitt 2016) describes her journey via the US and St Andrews to becoming a successful entrepreneur and making the top three of the British Council Study UK Alumni…
Raisin Monday, red gowns and a court summons
We were sad to hear that Elspeth Campbell (neé Macfarlane) MA 1941 had died last year at the age of 102. We were, therefore, extremely touched when her daughter Alison…
Five generations of St Andrews alumnae
Katie Abraham (BSc 2022) is the fifth generation of her family to graduate from the University of St Andrews. She describes how her love of St Andrews developed during childhood…
My internship: a collection of slivers
Rosie Cromwell – a third year undergraduate studying Philosophy and Social Anthropology – describes why she chose to apply to St Andrews, what it’s been like to study here pre-…
Charlie and the Marathon: running to raise funds
Charlotte Rogers (MA 2022) describes how the International Excellence Scholarship made it possible for her to study at St Andrews, and why she ran the Edinburgh Marathon in May this…