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Dear Yale-NUS College Alumni, Current Students, Staff & Faculty past and present. Quick pitch! I love our LABs. I love how they’ve evolved from their beginnings, what they’ve done for us in different ways, and I have great hope for what they can do for us post-2025. I hope they stay but, again, evolve post-2025. They may not look exactly the same (read: probably mostly self-funded save for goodwill and corporate sponsorships) but immediate benefits include lending us corporate legitimacy and thematic direction to access meaningful places we otherwise cannot as tourists or individuals, and expand our networks and horizons - whether academically, professionally, or just personally (like a fun reunion and educational getaway with friends). As we build own careers and networks, our LABs can evolve quite unimaginably too, beginning from how we ourselves may become conveners, door-openers, and experts. This excites me a great deal. I want to make the case for thinking about post-2025 LABs but can’t do it alone. I hope to have a small mix of students, alumni, and staff to work on this - to pitch it to the YNC Society and keep them in the loop, plus have their blessing and YNC’s blessing, to then work with CIPE while they’re still around to see how we can develop these ideas more concretely. They are, after all, the experts while we have them all together for a final year that will come and go very quickly. If you’re interested, let’s chat and achieve alignment before we ring up our friends in the society and CIPE. If you’ve already been working on similar ideas or know someone who has been, it’d be great if we could consolidate efforts or at least keep in touch. This is, after all, for all of us. I’ll close this first call on the coming Sunday night. Will also reply within 24 hours. Reach me. Thank you ◡̈
Marcus, what a thoughtful idea. I’m currently organising what’s a spin-off of a LAB for a YNC class. Sending you a text, let’s see if there’s something here to explore.
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2moWonderful idea! Another thing that plays into Yale-NUS' favour is that it has members from all over the world, and simply having someone you know who shares an intellectual core with you can elevate a seemingly normal visit to something else entirely. I want to highlight one thing you mentioned: "lending us corporate legitimacy and thematic direction to access meaningful places we otherwise cannot as tourists or individuals.". As citizens of a third-world country, some of us have quite limited access to certain places, purely as a consequence of our place of birth. YNC and CIPE have been so incredibly helpful to me and many others in allowing us to experience the world we were born into.