I'm Osama, a founder and a student at Yale. When people from back home in Jeddah ask me how Yale is, I often struggle to find an answer which truly explains how strange and beautiful my time here is. The plan is next time someone asks me this question I'll just send them this site.

Also, while having lunch with Ann Miura-Ko (founder of Floodgate VC, named most powerful woman in startups by Forbes), she told me to do this, and I think listening to her advice is probably the move.

A more selfish reason for this is that I do not want these days to simply pass by. I am going to graduate one day (I think), and I feel that doing this is a valuable exercise which will hopefully remind me of the significance of each day I get to spend here. Whether I spend my day rotting on the couch playing Switch golf with my roommates, meeting with VCs, building something, or studying for midterms/finals/psets/any excuse to rot in bass, I think that's important.

I am writing this from my suite in Durfee, where I am not supposed to be. I was supposed to go on the Yale Entrepreneurial Society Board retreat in some rustic house by a lake today, but the Shah's Halal platter I had last night opposed this. I shan't provide any more detail. Instead, my roommates and I watched our daily episode of Severance, I studied for my Math 1200 midterm, and I did this. I also spent some time sitting outside admiring the fall colors at Branford. I've never seen Fall like this, and it's unbelievably beautiful. My cardiovascular system seems to disagree, as the Fall weather is causing my nose to bleed on an almost daily basis, but we ball.

Ok, you get the point, I'm now going to list some of the coolest people I've gotten to get meals with. Cory Levy (founder of ZFellows), Harris Stolzenberg (partner at Pear VC), Ann Miura-Ko (alr went over this one), Dr. Ranjit Bindra (founder of Modifi Bio), Prof. Arthur Horwich (winner of Breakthrough prize, basically discovered how proteins fold, and is also somehow curing ALS????), and Prof. Kathryn Guarini (former CIO of IBM). This does not include the people I've gotten to listen to at lectures and debates (Boris Johnson, Nasser Al Qudwa & Ehud Olmert, and Curtis Yarvin????). This is all to say, Yale has good classes and unbelievably pretty buildings, but the most important aspect of going to a school like this is the people you get to meet. The opportunity to listen to these people is one that I am incredibly fortunate to have, and I am not going to waste it.

Alright, to wrap up, I am going to start doing this every day. If I can synthesize one lesson from all of my time here, it would be to talk to as many people as you can. Goodbye, and see you tomorrow.