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What’s the fastest way to go from green to seasoned? Answer: Test drive it. Again and again. To fully appreciate F1 racing, one has to immerse oneself in the sport. The same goes for the NTU campus experience.
For freshers and returning students settling in around this time, mastering the ins and outs of varsity life is par for the course: where to grab that yummy meal, the best time to drop in on a favourite professor, when to make a beeline for the international trail (on global immersion).
To help you, our largest-ever cohort of freshmen, navigate the purpose-filled path to graduation, @NTU has put together a guide that offers both a roadmap to distinction and a peek at the lives of those who have elected to make their days at NTU count.
With “fresh voices” being a key theme of this issue, we’ve also lined up recent additions to the university faculty. NTU’s newest crop of Nanyang Assistant Professors and National Research Foundation Research Fellows are relatively young and supremely talented (see People). Another fresh face comes in the form of NTU alumnus and inaugural Don Quixote Fund Award winner Dr Adrian Yeo, who declares NTU “one of the few places where professors take the time and effort to support young people, even if they are ‘just students’ ’’ (see Meet & Greet).
It’s the start of a new term. Rush if you must, to get to your destination. But if you happen to cross paths with 86-year-old Nobel laureate in Chemistry Prof Rudolph Marcus (who has accepted a position as Nanyang Professor at the School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences), stop and say “hi!”. Even if you’ve met him in this issue (see Coffee With).
Schedule packed to the gills with activity? Welcome to the club! This is NTU.
And we hope you’ll love every minute of it.
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| Tan Su Yuen |
| Editor-in-Chief |
| On behalf of the editorial team | | | |