Azhir Mahmood  🚀 🤖 🧬 🧠 🪐

It's a real mixed bag of a course, but it does highlight connections which run through materials science, which is the best part from my viewpoint.

In NatSci, MatSci & Chem Dept seem to run good courses. I was a fan of the labs, they really cemented the concepts, I wish there were more projects. It would have been good to have some materials informatics.

We do some at parts ii and iii these days, I think.

Sounds fun. I did Astrophysics (mostly Maths). But was barred from continuing into Part III b/c of medical complications during the exam period. (Common story for disable students there). Built an AI startup after I left, now just applying for MPhil & PhD.

I'm sorry to hear that the system prevented you from achieving your goals. There's a big piece of work going on at the moment about awarding gaps for disabled students, and I'm hopeful we may soon see real meaningful change.

It’s been weird watching Cambridge’s response to COVID and separately watching it’s response to its own disabled students in previous years. It felt like support was always possible. Just our lives didn’t matter enough.

Well, they’re talking about it. There needs to be contextualisation. While I was there I was bullied by academics, made temporarily homeless, my medical records were leaked, was a victim of domestic violence, etc So I had to overcome barrier and be more capable than my peers.