The Sunday Read: ‘She’s at Brown. Her Heart’s Still in Kabul.’

Going to varsity generally is a shock to most: Leaving the consolation of family and friends for a leap into the unknown, a contemporary begin. However what’s the college expertise like as a refugee?

The journalist Maddy Crowell met among the 148 Afghan girls who’ve been enrolled in U.S. faculties to finish their levels, and relates how they’ve tailored to American and collegiate life a 12 months on from the autumn of Kabul.

It has, she finds, been removed from simple. Ms. Crowell wrote that one pupil mentioned “she spent her days pinballing amongst exhaustion, despair and a type of cautious optimism.”

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Extra manufacturing for The Sunday Learn was contributed by Emma Kehlbeck, Parin Behrooz, Anna Diamond, Sarah Diamond, Jack D’Isidoro, Elena Hecht, Desiree Ibekwe, Tanya Pérez, Marion Lozano, Naomi Noury, Krish Seenivasan, Corey Schreppel, Margaret Willison, Kate Winslett and Tiana Younger. Particular due to Mike Benoist, Sam Dolnick, Laura Kim, Julia Simon, Lisa Tobin, Blake Wilson and Ryan Wegner.