Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 p.m.

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From Asia to the Ivies, Batiq connects

Contributing Reporter
Published Monday, January 28, 2008

Through Batiq, the company founded by Michael Waxman ’11, students from as far away as Korea can find themselves sitting face-to-face with a Yale student on a weekly basis — through video conferencing, at least.

Waxman, originally class of 2009, is a co-founder of the student mentoring company Batiq, an enterprise that matches non-English-speaking students from around the world with U.S. undergraduates from elite colleges in order to facilitate language instruction and cultural acclimatization. He left Yale after his freshman year to build the company, and he returned this year...

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