* Disclaimer: This post was written in October 2010. So a lot of things, including KAUST policy, might have changed.
About a week ago, I got a chance to visit the campus of King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. I had always been wanting to visit KAUST, but as the university was closely guarded, it was impossible to go there without knowing anyone who lived in the campus. Lucky for me, during an Indonesian gathering in Jeddah, my dad met one of the KAUST students so we quickly demanded for a visit!
KAUST, dubbed as the new “House of Wisdom” (in Arabic Bayt Al-Hekma), is the result of SR 10 billion ($2.7 billion) endowment from the current leader of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud. For the King, KAUST is a dream come true, as he had …
