The graduation issue is a celebration of the initiative of the Class of 2017, and the drive they had when the college was nothing but faculty, classrooms and residences. They had dreams that were as ambitious as the College’s—if not more so. They took a chance, and entered the college not as passive recipients of an education, but instead as active builders; one conversation, one meeting, one organisation at a time. There were Joyan Tan ’17 and Spandana Bhattacharya ’17, who had the vision to establish the first autonomous student-run publication. It might have been an incomplete vision at first, but it was a vision nonetheless.
story | Vasudha Kataruka photo | Anshuman Mohan, Bozy Lu, Yale-NUS Admissions From RC4 to the New Campus Growing from 150 students to a full house in the past four years, there has been a large evolution of the Yale-NUS experience. For the Classes of 2017 and 2018, one of the most noticeable differences was […]
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The following are edited memories about the Class of 2017, submitted by students of Yale-NUS College. “Yale-NUS Confessions broke the perfection bubble for me, not just in college life but in life overall. Nobody is perfect it turns out, everybody struggles: this is a simple truth even in an institution as idealistic and amazing […]
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From the Editors – October 4, 2013 What are we Playing For? – August 19, 2014 Dengue Outbreak on Campus – September 2, 2014 Yale-NUS Upholds Free Speech on Campus – October 21, 2014 Constitution Matters – November 18, 2014 Finally, A Student Government – February 10, 2015 Making Major Decisions: Yale-NUS’s Inaugural Class Declares […]
Read more![[Left to Right] Tinesh Indrarajah ’17, Raeden Richardson ’17 and Rakesh Prabhakaran ’17.](https://i0.wp.com/theoctant.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1292823_864153523609335_6706246895302926802_o.jpg?fit=2048%2C1366&ssl=1)
story | Tinesh Indrarajah photos | Tinesh Indrarajah The title above may indicate the beginning of a romance novel, and that isn’t inaccurate. This piece captures the introductory story of our athletics community through my intimate relationship with Yale-NUS athletics during the first two years of this college. The love story started with my […]
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story | Lynn Lee photo | Yale-NUS Admissions Hoa and I sat quietly as the rain fell. The soft wet darkness of the evening seemed to bring the lively sounds on campus closer to each other and to us, as we sat on cold tiles with echoes of song around us. It was the start […]
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story | Anna Evtushenko photo | Public Affairs It’s I, and it’s you, and it’s he, and it’s she. Between us we ponder the math of Cauchy, the fate of Augustus, the shape of black holes, and how scattered destinies merge into wholes. We are not all brothers and sisters, you know, but here, right next […]
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poem | Al Lim photo | Public Affairs Ngee Ann Kongsi, 2nd row, and I watched how the ground was broken. Facebook, many rows, and I watched how the fire alarm was broken. La La Luna, middle row and I was called out before the ukulele finished playing. What happened after the ground broke […]
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story | Pericles Lewis, President of Yale-NUS College photo | Public Affairs A colleague of mine studied for his freshman and sophomore years at Princeton University. As a junior, in 1967, he transferred to the beautiful, brand new campus of the University of California, Santa Cruz, on the Pacific Ocean. It was the university’s third […]
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story | David Chappell photo | Yale-NUS Public Affairs Yale-NUS College held its inaugural graduation ceremony for the class of 2017, on May 29, 2017. The 119 students of the graduating class, down from the 157 admitted, received their certificates from Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam, President of the Republic of Singapore. The ceremony featured […]
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story | Eduardo Lage-Otero, Former Vice-Rector photo | Eduardo Lage-Otero, Former Vice-Rector Around four years ago, Yale-NUS College was something of a blank slate. Although a lot of planning and thought had gone into developing our innovative curriculum and the basic structure of the fledgling institution, student organizations were still in their budding state and […]
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story | Stanislav Presolski, Assistant Professor photo | Mercury Press I say this knowing that I am not immune to biases, yet striving to stay objective to your true values and numerous accomplishments I cannot but reach for the superlatives. And even those of you who have given me and my colleagues a hard time […]
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story | Charles Bailyn, Professor and Inaugural Dean of Faculty photo | Public Affairs Well, it is upon us: the graduation ceremony of the inaugural class of Yale-NUS. With the departure of the class of 2017 and of President Lewis, there will be surprisingly little that is “inaugural” at Yale-NUS in the future. But as […]
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story | Kei Franklin ’17 photo | Public Affairs Four years ago, I sat on the porch of a wooden cabin in eZulwini, Swaziland, and contemplated whether I should go to college. Evening light danced through the lime trees, monkeys raced across the tin roof, their tiny feet hammering like thunder. The scrumptious smell of […]
Read more![[From left to right] Justin Ong '19, Managing Editor, David Chappell '18, Editor-in-Chief, and Zula Badral '17, Managing Editor.](https://i0.wp.com/theoctant.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/photo6156507814483306424.jpg?fit=1279%2C900&ssl=1)
story | Justin Ong ’19 photo | Enkhzul Badral ’17 When I first matriculated back in 2015, my initial instinct was not to explore new experiences and passions. It was to gravitate back to old ones and develop them further. That is why I joined The Octant, and only The Octant. I attended weekly meetings […]
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story | Joyan Tan ’17 and Spandana Bhattacharya ’17 photo | The Octant Dear readers, It’s been a long time since we last wrote anything for The Octant. We do not even remember what the last article we wrote was. But we remember the first piece of writing. It was an Editors’ Note introducing Panopt, […]
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story | Doris Sohmen Pao, Former EVP Administration photo | Public Affairs It is nearly midnight on the eve of my extended deadline for this article which has been on my “to do” list all week and I am still staring at a relatively blank screen. Perhaps it is best for me to start by […]
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