“I don’t think there’s such a thing as a normal life after SU. It just changes the way you see the world,” she said. “Now when someone says anything less than a billion people, it doesn’t seem like a big deal. The numbers, the scale, has drastically changed. The vision is so much bigger.”
With results like that, Ismail said the inaugural class went as well as anybody could have predicted.
“The students have been phenomenal — we’ve attracted some of the top thinkers in the world. Every week or two we’ve had some extraordinary figure come by and chat with the students,” he said.
Still, he said, this year is a work in progress. In the winter, the organization will run a course and next year it plans to expand the summer course to accommodate 120 students — a threefold increase. Will that change what happens? Will SU tweak its scheme?
“We’re tweaking almost non-stop,” he smiles. “This is essentially a real-time institution.”
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