Karim Atiyeh
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And I was born in 89, 90.
And I spent the first 16, 17 years of my life there.
And it was a relatively calm period.
always spurts of conflict, but nothing really major.
But you could tell growing up there that a lot of the previous generation was scarred from the war and everyone was kind of living on edge.
So in other words, I'd say
A sense that things are very ephemeral and could disappear very quickly was there and there.
And in a sense for my parents of, hey, you're going to have to do the best you can so that you maximize your chances of getting out of here and getting into the best school that you can so that you can get a visa and build a better life for yourself abroad is very important.
I was living with that stress maybe hanging over my head in a country that was constantly exposed to all sorts of risks that I've learned to live with external risk very well, I would say.
It doesn't really faze me.
Even before coming, I would trap myself in libraries in Lebanon and just find books and magazines that I was interested in.
And I still remember just opening up a bunch of science magazines in particular and just looking at the latest advancements, discoveries.
And every time I'd look at a new discovery that was made, it was scientists at MIT or researchers at MIT.
And just the name MIT just kept coming up as a place where a lot of incredible engineering discoveries were made.
As a result, I was fascinated by MIT as a school.
And then I look around, I guess, my high school, and there was one person a couple years ahead of me who had gone to study at MIT.
So I reached out to them and asked them, what is it like?
What's a good way for me to, I guess, expose myself to the type of work being done at MIT?
Do they offer any summer science programs?
And that's when I hear about a summer science program that was hosted at MIT called the Research Science Institute, RSI.
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