An entire infrastructure to support students sprung up
On Monday morning, Mrittika Sarin, 29, woke up and checked the news like she has every day this summer to “see how this country is going to get rid of me.”
Kaluvai now works at a biotech company, but still maintains a Facebook group for international students to help navigate school and visa logistics. Caught in green card limbo for years, she attended her final year at UCLA on a student visa despite having spent most of her life in America. Her inbox blew up with questions from students and parents about what to do in the fall.
She made a Google doc to connect international students to American students to see if they could swap classes — an online class for an in-person lab class or workshop.at 9 p.m. on Monday. When she woke up on Tuesday, it had “blown up,” and 24 hours later, it had over one million views., who helped her spread the word.
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