The wonk in Nathan Chen has ensured that even while he is taking time off from attending college, he isn’t taking time off from studying.
Chen, a rising junior at Yale, decided last fall was as good a time as any to begin a leave of absence from school to prepare for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics because his classes would have been remote even if he had been in New Haven, Connecticut.
But he got friends to send him the textbooks he will eventually be using in chemistry and advanced statistics courses for a little light reading.