Waikit Lau

“I was awarded the Jameel, the Abdul Latif Jameel [-Toyota] Scholarship  my second year through my fourth year, if I remember correctly.  And so that’s kind of my affiliation with it, and you know I did not know them, of them, when I came here but over the years I’ve kind of done a little bit of research and I was very fascinated by kind of what they did, a lot of the pioneering stuff that they’ve done back in the Middle East and you know they’ve been very supportive of the MIT community so so we’re very to be happy to be here.

Being able to see how Community Jameel has been so generous and successful in some of these initiatives with MIT was really interesting, eye-opening.  You know there’s so much talent around the world MIT certainly gets its share of smart people undergrad, graduate, postdocs, you name it, professors, to here.  And you know when I think about Jameel and where I’m a recipient of their generosity I also think about, you know, a lot of what’s possible at MIT, a lot of the great work that gets done here, also not possible without the likes of Abdul Latif Jameel, and their generosity right.  And you know, and then again it spurs my thinking and certainly think about wow you know folks who are able, and companies and organizations that’s able, that have had the means to contribute, to donate I mean it’s special, you know.

It allows this environment to prosper and to thrive so, so I think that’s great.”

 

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