Year 12 student Sam Jacobs, one of five students Education Guardian is following on the path to university, is anticipating a busy summer full of university research and work experience as he dreams of studying medicine to qualify as a doctor.
She almost ended up an "R&B starlet" during her teens but abandoned that path in favour of university, where she sang backing vocals for indie bands and shared stages with artists like Feist (Bonjay do a wonderfully grimey, uptempo remix of her 2008 number Honey Honey).
But 60 years ago when he walked the crisscrossed paths of the university's gated Yard between brick buildings as a young student, he wasn't yet the spiritual leader of a religious community -- and the world was a much different place.
He had been born into an average, middle-class Kentucky family, and followed the classic American path of securing a university place, at Cincinnati, on a football scholarship.
One of my slightly more roguish friends decided to shun the conventional path of going to university and getting a steady a job, like the rest of us did, and move out to Thailand to work in a bar, take mushrooms regularly and sleep with prostitutes.
Although it will not go down the path of some Chinese universities—hiring foreign academic rock stars to give the research rankings a boost IIMA's faculty are being prodded to publish more papers.
There clearly are different sexual sub-cultures in different strata of Chiang Mai adolescent society, with those set on paths to university degrees and professional employment, especially females, behaving distinctly more conservatively than those with vocational educational aspirations.
But more alarming, says Perez, and something that I sense has made him and his team even more determined to succeed, is that in many instances the path of least resistance for universities monetizing their IP is to sell to patent trolls.
Meanwhile, the school has beefed up its own record-keeping of departing pupils, with the aim of tracking their path through university and beyond.
