At 19-years-old I found myself on a journey across the world, from India, the country I was born and raised in, to USA, the country that my liberal arts college resided in. On a warm August afternoon …

At 19-years-old I fo…

At 19-years-old I found myself on a journey across the world, from India, the country I was born and raised in, to USA, the country that my liberal arts college resided in. On a warm August afternoon in 2022, with two big blue suitcases in hand, I walked out of Denver International Airport excited for orientation the next day at Naropa University. CU Boulder's cute small cousin of a university, Naropa, is located at the heart of Boulder; small and quaint and steeped in a foundation of Buddhism and contemplative practice. As a short 5-foot-tall Indian woman, even this tiny university intimid…