Opportunities, Beginnings and Endings
My graduate school journey
It was September 16, 2012 when I first landed at LAX and made my way to Irvine, CA that I first got the butterflies. I had been away from home before, but it was there in the tortuously long 2 hour rideshare from Los Angeles to Irvine that the realization hit me that I was some 14000 kilometers away from the world that I had grown up in. I had already made some friends on the flight over, having met up with some fellow graduate students while still at the Mumbai airport, but for the first time in my life I felt a bit alone and a bit scared.
