Bill Kamtchou
Ph.D. Researcher
Name: | Bill Kamtchou |
What year did you leave the Marist? | 2015 |
What are your favourite memories of the Marist? | Physics and Maths class, the school building itself and triple class religion |
Were you a boarder/day pupil? | Day |
What subjects from school are/were most helpful to you? | Maths, Physics, Chemistry and History |
Were you part of any club or team while in school? Memories of this? | Basketball, playing away games and heading to different schools on bus |
Are you in contact with any of your class? | Yes a couple |
What has your career path been since you left the Marist? | Almost another decade in further education |
If you attended College –what college/s did you attend? | Undergraduate at TCD in Astrophysics, Masters at UCD in Space Science & Technology and currently a PhD and Masters at UCD in Medical Physics |
What course/s did you study? | Stated above |
What did the course/s involve – subjects/assessment etc? | A lot of lectures and lab work. |
Is/was there a lot of study to do? | All incredibly dense course work. |
Can you tell us about what your current job involves? | As a PhD researcher I’m involved in daily research from computational work to experimental work in the hospital. I also do quite a bit of teaching for undergrads. |
What advice would you give to our current Marist students | Work hard but try to have as much fun as possible along the way. There are so many opportunities out there go and find what you love to do. |