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My first week in graduate school was a time to be cherished: it was filled with adventure and newness coupled with a fabulous sense of being at home born of choosing a place that was absolutely right for me. The school is in downtown Manhattan, New York City, and I had never spent much time in the Big Apple. Everything was on a large scale, and I was often seen walking down the street so focused on sky scrapers and building decorations that I could miss the mess on the sidewalk. Foods, museums, modes of transport, sights and sounds and smells were all new to me – and then there were the people! They were of every color, language, degree of cleanliness and sanity ever known to humanity. Nothing was boring, everything was endlessly fascinating, and the enclosures of the campus itself granted me a safe haven in an otherwise overwhelming environment.