When Yen-Jie Lee came to MIT as a graduate student in 2006, it was a bit of a culture shock. The aspiring particle physicist had studied physics at National Taiwan University before his career took a hiatus in the forested mountains of Taiwan. There, he worked as a marine corps lieutenant to fulfill the nation’s required military service. He still remembers the deafening crackle of artillery drills and the unyielding pressure of daily military life. “That experience made me into a person who is much less affected by pressure,” Lee…
