Ever since I became a student of Columbia, an ocean of opportunities has opened up. There are numerous internships, across the nation and the globe. SubhanAllah so many of them are appealing and I would love to internship-hop.  I want to try as many opportunities as I can!

I have also made a network of friends here that have become my family–and many of them are international students. I have made friends from Sudan, India, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Tibet.  Alhamdulilah I love learning from different cultural perspectives and I love meeting new people on the whole.

People ask me if I miss home and wonder why I don’t go home as often as I could.  I want to explain to them that my home is where my ambition is.  Home is where my hopes and ideals are.  It may not be tangible, because I can feel at home with a new friend in a foreign country.  Feeling at home for me is to be at ease.  To be happy, and to be content with your surroundings.  May God preserve the ease within our surroundings and homes. Ameen.