Episode summary introduction: Coronavirus was spreading, campus was shutting down. International students were hustling to get home before the borders closed.

In this Episode, we hear from an international student from India, Kartikeye Khanna who luckily made it home.

In particular, we discuss the following with him:

• How well online instruction is working for him?
  
• What needs to happen, so he can get back to campus in Fall? What’s the fallback plan?
  
• What would he tell aspiring international students?
  

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Online Semester experience [3:10]
  
• Criteria for return to UW Madison campus this fall [6:09]
  
• How his classmates dealing with the situation [10:34]
  
• Guidance for new students in Fall 2020 [12:00]
  
• Advice for Fall 2021 aspirants  [14:32]
  
• Thoughts on the unexpected stay in India [15:54]
  

Our Guest: Kartikeye Khanna, is  a freshman at University of Wisconsin Madison studying Computer Engineering.

Memorable Quote: "Got to do, what you got to do”

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• The Daily Pennsylvanian [1:17] Gap Year. Taking a break of maybe a year, before starting college
  
• New York Times [11:38] Returning International Students
  

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