My brother, Dax, only recently stopped going to school. He’s 43 now, but the kid never stopped. From kindergarten onward, he double-downed in high school, attending summer school courses by choice. He earned dual degrees in biotoxicology and microbiology. He has a PhD, among other things, and is now the program manager at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre-OICR Translational Genomics Laboratory at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. While my sister and I learned lyrics to Madonna songs, Dax had his nose in a book and is now an experienced manager of cancer clinical genomics projects integrating liquid serial biopsy (UMI, methylome), and whole genome, exome and transcriptomic assays, inclusive of clinical interpretation. Kiley and I are still working on our lyrics recall.
The thing is, learning can take so many beautiful forms beyond the classroom. As
