This autumn, We invite you to reflect on the idea of “Unlearning Perfection.” Our blog submissions this autumn coincide with the biannual Pecha Kucha evening on 11 November 2025, and we’d love to see how this theme…
“The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step,” said Lao Tzu – and that’s exactly what growth looks like. Step by step, often without realising it, we change, adapt, and move forward. Only when we…
By Erin Cruickshank, Enterprising Mind of the Year Winner 2025 When I first set out on my Working Integrated Year Abroad, I had one goal: to make language learning more accessible for young people from state-educated…
By Connor Salter, Postgraduate Student Why do we make art when it’s never as good as we wanted it to be? A friend who makes public art for a living in Chicago asked me this question as we had lunch in Northpoint Café.…
Rebecca Cornwell, Public Engagement Officer, School of Biology shares her love of knitting and what it has taught her about failure. In life, as with knitting, you can always pick up the pieces and mend the tears. As…
By Cat Wilson, Director of the Centre for Educational Enhancement and Development I was recently asked to deliver a Pecha Kucha talk about ‘learning from failure’ and managed to fill up 20 slides with photos of my dog…
TRIGGER WARNING – themes of miscarriage and endometriosis. Dr Prabs Dehal candidly discusses her experience with failure and how she has grown as an individual in the process. Dr Dehal is the Engineering Coordinator in…
By Anonymous Failure happens almost every day in coding, and it is inevitable. Computer Science students in fourth and second year reflect on their experience with building resilience in coding. Your code will fail a…
By Anonymous I once did a module based on the writings by a specific author, and by the end of the course I still hadn’t read a single book by them. I revised for the exam as much as I could, but had to defer it until…
By Anonymous I felt like a failure after I came to the University of St Andrews being very passionate about my subject at first, and then falling out of love with it. The fear of the situation happening again stopped…