Living in Kyiv, Ukraine, junior Anastasiia Musiiaka's childhood dream was to attend college in the U.S. as an international student. At the age of 4, after some encouragement from her mom, Musiiaka started...

Senior Chris Hernandez decided he wanted to pursue higher education in the United States three years before he made the move. Hernandez was born in the U.S. but had lived in Villahermosa, a city in southern...

Senior Uzma Rahim grew up in Laghman, an eastern province of Afghanistan.  “Life was good there,” Rahim said. “It was a beautiful city. We had a big house and we had a lot of friends.” In...

Despite Santiago, Chile, being almost 5,000 miles away from Austin, when freshman Pia Larenas cooks or eats Chilean foods it makes her and her family feel more connected to the home they left when she...

Nine-year-old Jasmine Aung walked up to a large brick building with her family, all dressed in traditional Karen clothing. Her dad leaned down to her and whispered something in her ear.  “Remember...

Spanish teacher Janette Miranda-Santiago was born in New York, but her family moved back to Puerto Rico when she was 5. She spent her weekends and breaks at the beach, her favorite part about living on...

Sophomore Rafael Kubala had never been to the United States before he landed here in August. But after stepping off the plane and looking around, it wasn’t unfamiliar. “I came here, and I was like...