He was hoping to lump these two eventualities—job and school—together by applying to a Leadership Development Program at Johnson & Johnson. He was revising the personal statement he’d sent Isabella for the application to this program. If Rob was accepted, he would start at the company as a bench worker—mixing simple chemicals and taking care of lab equipment, which was his first role in the lab at Yale—while concurrently earning a graduate degree at NYU, with the tuition paid for by Johnson & Johnson in return for a long-term contract. He was confident that he would be accepted to the program.
