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June 15, 2010

My Disastrous First Year in America - How I Got Through It

(And Finally Learned How to Fit In)
By Divya Pradhan

So many times, I was dangerously close to jumping on the next flight home to India.

For many miserable months after I came to the U.S. to be a professor, I wondered what I had done to become instantly the most unpopular teacher - nay, person - on campus.  That was 1995.

Cut to now. I can laugh about how I was once an outcast. Now, people come to me for advice. What changed?

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