“The most beautiful things about Yale are all the people you meet. When I arrived on campus for the Orientation for International Students (OIS), I was sad to see my mom leave. It suddenly hit me that I was 2 oceans away from everything I knew to be familiar, and everyone I loved. I was now in a new place where I'm just another face–another student in a class. I started to feel small and invisible. At Yale though, since you have access to all these different spaces, I learned the importance of actively choosing the people you surround yourself with. You start chatting with the people next you in lecture halls. You run into familiar faces from OIS. I made great friends. It took me about one year to feel I was “more than just a face”, but now, as a junior, I feel I have a place here both intellectually and socially.”
– Jemimah Orevaoghene, Yale College '19 #HumansOfOISS .
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