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I had been in school my whole life from kindergarten through elementary school, through middle school, through high school, through

four years of undergraduate college,

and through my first year of grad school.

All those years sitting in classes listening to teachers talk and talk

taking notes memorizing

repeating everything on the test

working working to please the teacher like a good little boy and get good grades.

Well I was tired of it. I was tired of all of that. And so, I saved some extra money during my first year of grad school. I lived very very cheaply.

And my dream was to finally get out and see the world during the summer.

I had a summer break about three months

between my first year and my second year of grad school and I decided I don't want to go somewhere similar to America. What's the point?

I need to see something different. I need to get out and experience the world. I need to challenge myself. Can I survive in a country very, very different than my own for two or three months. I needed to test myself. I was tired of being a good little

boy getting good grades, pleasing teachers.

And so I went to India during that summer.

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