Going to college comes as a shock to most people. A leap into the unknown, a new start, away from the comfort of friends and family. But what is the university experience like as a refugee?
Journalist Maddy Crowell met some of the 148 Afghan women who entered U.S. universities to pursue their degrees and how they have adjusted to university life in the U.S. one year after the fall of Kabul. I will tell you how much.
It wasn’t easy, she feels. Ms. Crowell wrote that one student said, “She spent her days playing pinball in exhaustion, despair and a kind of cautious optimism.”
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