This week I met with Manuel Pace, a PhD student in Electrical Engineering, at Schwarzman Center. Manuel grew up in Habay-la-Neuve in Belgium and studied Engineering then Physical Engineering for his undergraduate and master’s degrees at UCLouvain. He later did a master’s in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College. During his master, he was able to visit Yale through an exchange program and decided to return to Yale for his PhD studies because of the great opportunities there are.
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For this week’s #humansofoiss, Aalap Shah (2nd year PhD in Psychology) wants to tell his stories in a different way: through his drawings and his favorite quotes from Alice in Wonderland:
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“There is no better way to describe my path to graduate school than this short exchange between Alice and The Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland:
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Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
Alice: I don’t much care where.