Yay Ellis! #Repost yale with make_repost ・・・ Great athletes like Ellis DeJardin have a gift for anticipating events. And in some ways, DeJardin’s four years at Yale played out how she envisioned them after graduating from an all-girls high school in Pasadena, California. A prep star in volleyball, she ended up as captain of Yale’s volleyball team and helped the Bulldogs win two league championships. She also sensed that her collegiate academic interests might include psychology. “I loved doing science experiments and I thought people were more interesting than bacteria,” said DeJardin, a resident of Jonathan Edwards College who will graduate this month. “So, psychology was a Hail Mary.” But life, like sports, always presents surprises. Sure enough, DeJardin loved studying the mind. And as a student research assistant she began working, in particular, with children at risk of developing schizophrenia. It was in that role that serendipity entered DeJardin’s life in the form of a 14-ye...