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My hopes for NUS College, as a Yale-NUS alumnus

New school can become a place where the average student discovers what is exceptional in himself.

The writer's hope is that the new college will be able to create a similarly transformative experience for its students. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
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The No. 1 party trick I love to pull with acquaintances is announcing that I spent a summer researching one of the most venomous spiders in the world. 

The Chilean recluse spider, to its reticent name, has eluded detailed study. “But anecdotal accounts of it sinking its teeth into a bunny led to a total gangrenous necrosis of the body in less than a day,” I helpfully chime.

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