Feven Getachew `24 did not prepare for the Iowa cold. When she arrived at the Des Moines airport from Ethiopia in January 2021, she said, “I thought, ‘Okay, I will just wear a hoodie and something underneath and that will be good enough.’” Luckily, she said John Edwards, director of international admission, brought her plenty.
Meghna Adhikari `24 was born in Kathmandu, Nepal, the capital of a country at the height of a decade-long civil war in 2002. At six years old, her home country overturned its 240-year-long monarchy in favor of a new democracy. Adhikari recalls little of her own experience during the Nepali Civil War. Most of her.
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